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Parasitic nursing behavior in the wedge‐capped capuchin monkey ( Cebus olivaceus )
Author(s) -
O'Brien Timothy G.
Publication year - 1988
Publication title -
american journal of primatology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.988
H-Index - 81
eISSN - 1098-2345
pISSN - 0275-2565
DOI - 10.1002/ajp.1350160406
Subject(s) - biology , juvenile , context (archaeology) , wedge (geometry) , zoology , nursing , demography , developmental psychology , ecology , psychology , medicine , mathematics , paleontology , geometry , sociology
Juvenile and adult females in two wild groups of wedge‐capped capuchin monkeys (Cebus olivaceus) were observed nursing from other adult females. The context of the interactions varied with participants but always involved a higher‐ranking female nursing from a lower‐ranking female. This behavior appears to be an example of an exploitative interaction in which the suckling female benefits at the expense of the nursing female.