German Primate Center

Multimodal fertility cues in chimpanzees: how body odours complement sexual swellings

Abstract To attract mating partners, female mammals communicate their reproductive status through one or multiple sensory modalities, providing redundant or complementary information. Chimpanzees ( Pan troglodytes ) are an excellent model for studying multimodal communication. Ex...

Maternal style does not predict infant growth and survival in wild Guinea baboons

Abstract Primate infants depend on their mothers for nursing, transportation, and survival, but also benefit from other behaviours such as contact, protection, and the mother serving as a model for social learning. During infancy, variation in maternal care (“maternal style”) can...