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Wild female baboons bias their social behaviour towards paternal half-sisters.
Proceedings. Biological sciences - 7 Mar 2003
Smith Kerri, Alberts Susan C, Altmann Jeanne
Abstract excerpt
Adult female cercopithecines have long been known to bias their social behaviour towards close maternal kin. However, much less is understood about the behaviour of paternal kin, especially in wild populations. Here, we show that wild adult female baboons bias their affiliative behaviour towards their adult paternal half-sisters in the same manner and to the same extent that they bias their behaviour towards...
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