Why are infants so attractive to others? The form and function of infant handling in bonnet macaques.

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• Publication year

  1999

• Venue

  Animal Behaviour

• Publication date

  1999-05-01

• Fields of study

  Biology, Medicine, Psychology

• Identifiers
  DOI 10.1006/ANBE.1998.1065PMID 10328788
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