Infanticide and Parental Care »

Infanticide is an extremely complex behavioral pattern that occurs throughout the animal kingdom and it must be considered not only in isolation but also from the viewpoint of an animal's care of its young. The concept of infanticide is considered in different mammals such as humans, primates, pinnipeds, lions, dwarf mongooses and prairie dogs and in non-mammals including insects and birds. This book also views the topic in different environmental conditions such as the natural habitat of an animal and animals kept in laboratory conditions.

Part I: Historical, Anthropological, Sociological and Psychological Aproaches to the Study of Infanticide and Parental Care in Humans: Fitness Tradeoffs in the History and Evolution of Delegated Mothering with Special Reference to Wet-Nursing, Abandonment and Infanticide
The Role of Social, Religious and Medical Practices in the Neglect, Abuse, Abandonment and Killing of Infants
Documentation of Infanticide in Selected Western Cultures
Part II: Infanticide in Nonhuman Primates: Sexual Selection and Local Resource Competition
Infanticide Among the Langurs of Jodphur: Testing the Sexual Selection Hypothesis with a Long-Term Record
Infant Abuse in Confined Monkey Colonies: The Maternal Anxiety Hypothesis
Part III: Field Studies on Infanticide and Parental Care in Insects, Birds and Mammals: Oophagy and Infanticide in Colonies of Social Wasps
Proximate and Ultimate Determinants of Avian Brood Reduction
Protection and Abuse of Young in Pinnipeds
Infanticide in Lions
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