Sexual selection in wild baboons: from mating opportunities to paternity success

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Age, musth and paternity success in wild male African elephants, Loxodonta africana (2007, background): “baboons, Papio cynocephalus ( Alberts et al. 2003, 2006 ), rhesus macaques, Macaca mulatta (Bercovitch et al. 2003), red deer, Cervus elaphus (Clutton-Brock et al. 1988), northern elephant seals, Mirounga angustirostris (Le Boeuf & Reiter 1988), fallow deer, Dama dama (McElligott & Hayden 2000; McEl”
Hedging their bets? Male and female chacma baboons form friendships based on likelihood of paternity (2010, background): “Male baboons show high reproductive skew (Bulger 1993; Alberts et al. 2003, 2006); dominant males monopolize the majority of consort opportunities and subordinate males’ mating success is largely determined by the number of simultaneously consorting females.”
Social relationships among adult female baboons (papio cynocephalus) I. Variation in the strength of social bonds (2006, methodology): “Our methods for genetic analysis and identification of paternal kin are described in detail elsewhere (Alberts et al. 2006; Buchan et al. 2003, 2005; Smith et al. 2003).”