ANTB22H3 Chapter : detailed text book notes second class
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Being a limiting resource puts female primates in an influential position when it comes to males. Female primates determine the behavioural options and reproductive opportunities available to males. Primate mating should reflect the compromises between female and male strategies to gain access to mates, food, and other resources that they and their offspring need to survive: mating patterns when females are solitary: Core areas: and area in which one or more individuals spend most of their time and obtain most of their food. Monogamy: technically speaking, a mating system in which one male reproduces exclusively with one female y. By foregoing his higher reproductive potential, he can increase his ability to monitor the fidelity of his mate, and therefore gain some confidence of his paternity of any offspring she produces. Paternity certainty: certainty as to which male sired an offspring. May not have absolute paternity certainty, but they behave like they do.
