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Behavioural inbreeding avoidance in wild African elephants.
Molecular ecology - 1 Oct 2007
Archie Elizabeth A, Hollister-Smith Julie A, Poole Joyce H, Lee Phyllis C, Moss Cynthia J, Maldonado Jésus E, Fleischer Robert C, Alberts Susan C
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The costs of inbreeding depression, as well as the opportunity costs of inbreeding avoidance, determine whether and which mechanisms of inbreeding avoidance evolve. In African elephants, sex-biased dispersal does not lead to the complete separation of male and female relatives, and so individuals may experience selection to recognize kin and avoid inbreeding. However, because estrous females are rare and...
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