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Rhesus Monkeys and Reproductive Strategy

✍ Scribed by Jörg Schmidtke; Peter Nürnberg; Michael Krawczak

Publisher
John Wiley and Sons
Year
2004
Weight
260 KB
Volume
26
Category
Article
ISSN
0172-1526

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✦ Synopsis

Abstract

A male rhesus monkey leaves his birth group to reproduce. On Cayo Santiago, the “Monkey Island” off Puerto Rico, researchers are searching for the gene that controls the primates migratory behaviour

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