Anderson DM, Simpson MJ. Breeding performance of a captive colony of rhesus macaques (Macaca mulatta).
Lab Anim 1979;
13:275-81. [PMID:
553200 DOI:
10.1258/002367779780937834]
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Abstract
For most of the 18 years recorded, fewer than 50% of the adult females gave birth in any one year. The colony, of 6 social groups, showed a clear-cut breeding season. Female parity and dominance had no effect on breeding rate, though 1st infants were born earlier in the year than 2nd-born ones. Only when females gave birth in successive years were the months of giving birth correlated. Mothers and daughters may tend to give birth closer in time within a breeding season than do other females.
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