Breeding Performance of a Captive Colony of Rhesus Macaques (Macaca Mulatto)
Open Access
- 1 July 1979
- journal article
- research article
- Published by SAGE Publications in Laboratory Animals
- Vol. 13 (3), 275-282
- https://doi.org/10.1258/002367779780937834
Abstract
Summary For most of the 18 years recorded, fewer than 50% of the adult females gave birth in any one year. The colony, of 6 social groups, showed a clear-cut breeding season. Female parity and dominance had no effect on breeding rate, though 1st infants were born earlier in the year than 2nd-born ones. Only when females gave birth in successive years were the months of giving birth correlated. Mothers and daughters may tend to give birth closer in time within a breeding season than do other females.This publication has 10 references indexed in Scilit:
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