Male transfer in olive baboons (original) (raw)

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Nature volume 255, pages 219–220 (1975)Cite this article

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STUDIES of human populations have shown that inbreeding results in an increase in the number of offspring with greatly reduced viability. It seems likely that there are similar effects in other primates. In Papio anubis it seems that this problem is reduced by the transfer of males between groups. In a population studied at Combe National Park in western Tanzania inbreeding may be essentially avoided through the transfer of all males out of their natal troop.

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1. Gombe Stream Research Centre, PO Box 185, Kigoma, Tanzania
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PACKER, C. Male transfer in olive baboons.Nature 255, 219–220 (1975). https://doi.org/10.1038/255219a0

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• Received: 14 March 1975
• Accepted: 15 April 1975
• Issue date: 15 May 1975
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/255219a0

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