Costs of infant-carrying in the cotton-t
β
Susana SΓ‘nchez; Fernando PelΓ‘ez; Carlos Gil-BΓΌrmann; Werner Kaumanns
π
Article
π
1999
π
John Wiley and Sons
π
English
β 161 KB
Infant-carrying behavior among callitrichids seems to be a costly activity. Costs have been related to the physical efforts of carrying the weight of very heavy infants and to the resulting reduction in foraging efficiency. However, the costs of carrying in terms of the physical consequences for car