Sexual conflict in chacma baboons, Papio hamadryas ursinus: absent males select for proactive females

We argue that, in the absence of an infanticidal threat from resident males, female chacma baboons favour polyandry because it may predispose multiple males to protect their infants from infanticide by immigrant males. This assumes that the most likely sire, or principal protector, of an infant may...

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