Functional aspects of maternal aggression in mammals

Parental Investment and Sexual Selection

2017 • 9,626 citations

Natural Selection of Parental Ability to Vary the Sex Ratio of Offspring

1973 • 3,779 citations

Infanticide among animals: A review, classification, and examination of the implications for the reproductive strategies of females

1979 • 1,292 citations

Baboon Mothers and Infants.

1982 • 997 citations

Maternal behavior in mammals.

1963 • 883 citations

Risks and Rewards of Nest Defence by Parent Birds

1988 • 782 citations

Kinds of aggression and their physiological basis

1968 • 606 citations

Female Incitation of Male Competition: A Mechanism in Sexual Selection

1977 • 570 citations

Care and Exploitation of Nonhuman Primate Infants by Conspecifics Other Than the Mother

1976 • 351 citations

Parental defence of offspring: A model and an example

1980 • 317 citations

Social factors influencing reproduction in wild lions

1975 • 308 citations

Adaptations of Female Lions to Infanticide by Incoming Males

1983 • 291 citations

Infanticide in Mountain Gorillas: New Cases and a Reconsideration of the Evidence

1989 • 276 citations

Intraspecific fighting during late pregnancy and lactation in rats and effects of litter removal

1978 • 214 citations

A comparison of maternal behaviour in the meadow vole (Microtus pennsylvanicus), prairie vole (M. ochrogaster) and pine vole (M. pinetorum)

1984 • 209 citations

Female mate choice, male migration, and the threat of infanticide in ringtailed lemurs

1991 • 200 citations

Infants, mothers, and other females

1987 • 187 citations

Infanticide as a primate reproductive strategy.

1977 • 174 citations

Shared and unshared parental investment, parent-offspring conflict and brood size

1986 • 166 citations

Lemur Behavior: A Madagascar Field Study

1966 • 163 citations

Infanticide in Prairie Dogs: Lactating Females Kill Offspring of Close Kin

1985 • 158 citations

Marmots: Social Behavior and Ecology

1990 • 152 citations

The cost of living in a seal harem

1977 • 150 citations

Density‐dependent pup mortality in the Antarctic fur seal Arctocephalus gazellu at South Georgia

1984 • 141 citations

Current Problems in the Study of Infanticidal Behavior of Rodents

1985 • 124 citations

Aggression in the female golden hamster: Effects of reproductive state and social isolation

1974 • 123 citations

Mice: Postpartum aggression elicited by the presence of an intruder*1

1972 • 123 citations

Infanticide and other reproductive strategies in the collared lemming, Dicrostonyx groenlandicus

1978 • 120 citations

Kidnapping and female competition among captive bonnet macaques

1980 • 111 citations

Maternal aggression as a deterrent to infanticide in Peromyscus leucopus and P. maniculatus

1985 • 109 citations

Factors affecting early mortality in the South American fur seal (Arctocephalus australis) in Peru: density‐related effects and predation

1992 • 108 citations

Aunts and Mothers: Adaptive Implications of Allomaternal Behavior of Nonhuman Primates

1979 • 99 citations

Social dynamics, nursing coalitions and infanticide among farm cats (Felis catus)

1987 • 97 citations

Factors influencing infanticidal behavior in wild male house mice (Mus musculus)

1980 • 96 citations

Maternal Aggression in Mammals

1981 • 93 citations

Aggressive and maternal activities of female southern elephant seals (Mirounga leonina)

1982 • 92 citations

New Data and a Discussion of Infant Killing in Old World Monkeys and Apes

1977 • 89 citations

Communal Nesting among Genetically Similar House Mice

1988 • 88 citations

Different patterns of biting attack employed by lactating female mice (Mus domesticus) in encounters with male and female conspecific intruders.

1988 • 82 citations

Some situational and experiential determinants of maternal aggression in mice

1981 • 78 citations

Aggression in the Female Northern Elephant Seal, Mirounga Angustirostris

1978 • 78 citations

Observations of Intraspecific Aggression and Cannibalism in Polar Bears (<i>Ursus maritimus</i>)

1985 • 77 citations

Changes in incidence of infanticidal and parental responses during the reproductive cycle in male and female wild mice Mus musculus

1988 • 77 citations

Paternal behaviour and killing of young in Arctic ground squirrels

1983 • 67 citations

Effects of neonatal castration and testosterone on the rat's pup-killing behavior and activity

1971 • 67 citations

Territoriality in adult female Columbian ground squirrels

1982 • 66 citations

Predator Harassment Implies a Real Deadly Risk: A Reply to Hennessy

1986 • 63 citations

Maternal aggression in the South American fur seal in Peru

1992 • 56 citations

Field evidence for sexual selection and resource competition infanticide in white-footed mice

1989 • 55 citations

Postpartum fighting in the rat: Nipple development and the presence of young

1980 • 55 citations

Pup Abduction and Infanticide in Southern Sea Lions

1988 • 52 citations

Functions of female aggression during the pupping and mating season of grey seals, Halichoerus grypus (Fabricius)

1982 • 49 citations

Maternal Defense in Columbian White-Tailed Deer: When is it Worth it?

1987 • 48 citations

Maternal Aggression and Litter Size in the Female House Mouse

1990 • 48 citations

Infanticide in the meadow vole, Microtus pennsylvanicus: Significance in relation to social system and population cycling

1981 • 44 citations

Another hamster paradox: More males carry pups and fewer kill and cannibalize young than do females.

1976 • 41 citations

Fatal intragroup kidnapping in yellow baboons

1987 • 39 citations

Maternal aggression in response to the risk of infanticide by male mice, Mus domesticus

1990 • 38 citations

Maternal aggression and intermale social aggression: a behavioral comparison

1987 • 36 citations

Infanticide and maternal aggression: Synchrony of male and female reproductive strategies in mice

1986 • 36 citations

Infanticide in the Columbian ground squirrel, Spermophilus columbianus

1983 • 34 citations

Maternal aggression in mice: Protection of young is a by-product of attacks at the home site

1980 • 32 citations

Fighting in female mice as a function of the size of the opponent

1969 • 31 citations

Aggressive behaviour of female prairie deer mice in laboratory populations

1980 • 30 citations

Maternal Behavior in the Rabbit: Critical Period for Nest Building Following Castration During Pregnancy.

1962 • 29 citations

Behavioural and neuropharmacological aspects of maternal aggression in rodents

1990 • 29 citations

Intraspecific maternal aggression in the house mouse (Mus domesticus): a counterstrategy to infanticide by male?

1989 • 29 citations

Infanticide in yellow-bellied marmots

1985 • 27 citations

Litter defence and parental investment allocation in house mice

1991 • 27 citations

Infanticide in the Columbian Ground Squirrel, Spermophilus columbianus

1984 • 25 citations

Mating strategies in cats: a comparison of the role and importance of infanticide in domestic cats, Felis catus L., and lions, Panthera leo L.

1990 • 25 citations

Cannibalism among Yellow-Bellied Marmots

1979 • 25 citations

Infanticide in wild populations of Ondatra zibethicus and Microtus pennsylvanicus

1985 • 24 citations

Maternal aggression in hamsters: Effects of stage of lactation, presence of pups, and repeated testing

1983 • 23 citations

Infanticide in California ground squirrels

1986 • 21 citations

Aggressive behavior during the reproductive cycle of female Peromyscus leucopus: effects of encounter site

1980 • 20 citations

Suckling stimulation modulates the maintenance of postpartum aggression in mice

1988 • 20 citations

Effects of mother-litter separation and reunion on maternal aggression and pup mortality in lactating hamsters

1984 • 20 citations

Hormones and behavior in rhesus macaque abusive and nonabusive mothers

2000 • 20 citations

PARENTAL AGGRESSION DISPLAYED BY FEMALE MICE IN RELATION TO THE SEX, REPRODUCTIVE STATUS AND INFANTICIDAL POTENTIAL OF CONSPECIFIC INTRUDERS

2013 • 19 citations

Observations of nonaggressive behavior between polar bear family groups

1986 • 19 citations

Maternal aggression by lactating group-living Japanese macaque females

1988 • 17 citations

Maternal nest defense in the desert woodrat Neotoma lepida lepida

1979 • 14 citations

CANNABALISM BY GREY SEALS, HALICHOERUS GRYPUS, ON AMET ISLAND, NOVA SCOTIA

1993 • 14 citations

Litter Gender Composition, Food Availability, and Maternal Defence of the Young in House Mice (Mus Domesticus)

1991 • 13 citations

Maternal aggression in northern elephant seals: the effect of the pup

1988 • 11 citations

Maternal aggression in mice: The non-specific nature of the exteroceptive maintenance by young

1979 • 7 citations

Infanticide in white-footed mice, Peromyscus leucopus

1986 • 5 citations

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1955 • 0 citations