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- Digby, LJ, Infanticide by female mammals: implications for the evolution of social systems,
in Infanticide by Males and Its Implications, edited by C. van Schaik and C. Janson
(November, 2000),
pp. 423-446, Cambridge University Press, ISBN 9780521774987
(last updated on 2024/08/24)
Abstract:
Infanticide by males and its implications Male primates, carnivores and rodents
sometimes kill infants that they did not sire. Infanticide by males is a relatively
common phenomenon in these groups, but tends to be rare in any given species.