Reproductive seasonality in primates: patterns, concepts and unsolved questions

• Main Authors: Sandra A. Heldstab, Carel P. van Schaik, Dennis W. H. Müller, Eberhard Rensch, Laurie Bingaman Lackey, Philipp Zerbe, Jean‐Michel Hatt, Marcus Clauss, Ikki Matsuda
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Cambridge Philosophical Society 2020
• Subjects: Q Science (General)
• Online Access: https://eprints.ums.edu.my/id/eprint/26245/1/Reproductive%20seasonality%20in%20primates.pdf; https://eprints.ums.edu.my/id/eprint/26245/; https://doi.org/10.1111/brv.12646

Primates, like other mammals, exhibit an annual reproductive pattern that ranges from strictly seasonal breeding to giving birth in all months of the year, but factors mediating this variation are not fully understood. We applied both a categorical description and quantitative measures of the birth...