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Published on: November 11, 2011
Yellow baboon labor and parturition at the Tana River National Primate Reserve, Kenya
Vicki K Condit1,2, E O Smith1,3,2
1Department of Anthropology, Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia.
American Journal of Primatology
|January 16, 2020
Abstract:
An observation of the birth of a feral yellow baboon (Papio cynocephalus cynocephalus) is reported. Over an approximate 45-min period, the late stages of labor, parturition, cleaning of the infant, and consumption of the placenta were observed. The labor and parturition occurred in the late afternoon/early evening hours, and within 5 m of the observer. A review of the literature on feral births suggests that selection may have favored both the timing and the location of births. © 1994 Wiley-Liss, Inc.
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