A Guide to the Mammals of China is an outgrowth of the desire of the Biodiversity Working
Group (BWG) of the China Council for International Cooperation in Environment and …

Under the dispersal/foraging efficiency model, colobines are predicted to be'indifferent
mothers', neither facilitating philopatry for their daughters nor evicting them from the natal …

Female philopatry and male dispersal are the norm for most mammals, and females that
remain in their natal region often derive foraging or social benefits from proximity to female …

Primate life histories are strongly influenced by both body and brain mass and are mediated
by food availability and perhaps dietary adaptations. It has been suggested that folivorous …

Objectives Raising offspring imposes energetic costs, especially for female mammals.
Consequently, seasons favoring high energy intake and sustained positive energy balance …

In primates and other mammals, weaning is an equivocal concept, as is reflected in the
numerous ways it is measured: a) first intake of solid food, b) conflict over access to the …

Socioecological theory suggests a link between the strength of competition for food/safety,
rates of agonism, structure of dominance hierarchies, and dispersal among group‐living …

Aggression rarely escalates to physical conflict because doing so puts individuals at risk of
injury. Escalation only pays off when the potential benefits outweigh the potential costs, that …

An animal's use of space may be strongly influenced by habitat edges and neighboring
conspecifics encountered in and around its home range. Habitat edges are known to affect …

Group living may entail local resource competition (LRC) which can be reduced if the birth
sex ratio (BSR) is biased towards members of the dispersing sex who leave the group and …