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Showing 1 to 3 of 3 for “"Allomaternal care"”.
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Who Cares? How Caregivers Influence Communicative and Cognitive Development During Early Childhood
… our understanding of how infants benefit from allomaternal care (AMC: care provided to infants by individuals other than the mother). Humans are unique among primates in our expression of extensive AMC. Infancy is a particularly intense period of risk for nutritional stress and mortality in …
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Maternal Effort, Food Quality, and Cortisol Variation During Lactation in Propithecus coquereli in Northwestern Madagascar
The duration and quality of the infant care mothers provide is paramount to investigating life history theory. Maternal care is the principal determinant of infant survival and future reproductive success. Lactation is the most energetically expensive activity for mammals, in turn causing lactating …
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Social and Ecological Influences on Maternal and Infant Outcomes in Rwenzori Angolan Colobus Monkeys
Early-life growth and development can have lasting impacts on an animal’s lifetime fitness. These processes are shaped by an animal’s genome and its environment, and the latter can be strongly influenced by its mother (‘maternal effects’). Maternal effects are particularly salient in mammals, as …