E. Huchard

Cycle length flexibility: is the duration of sexual receptivity associated with changes in the social environment?

This study investigates whether sexual receptivity duration in wild chacma baboons correlates with social environment changes, finding no support for the hypothesis but a negative correlation between swelling duration and group size.

Evolutionary determinants of reproductive seasonality: a theoretical approach

This study uses an agent-based model to identify environmental and life-history factors influencing reproductive seasonality in yellow baboons, finding significant effects of environmental seasonality, productivity, unpredictability, and daily reproductive energy expenditure.

Sexual coercion in a natural mandrill population

The paper examines sexual coercion in wild mandrills, finding that male aggression targets receptive females, inflicts costs, and increases long-term mating success, with high-ranking females most targeted and high-ranking males most coercive.

Evolutionary determinants of non-seasonal breeding in wild chacma baboons

This study identifies reproductive competition as a key factor driving non-seasonal breeding in chacma baboons, showing how social dynamics influence reproductive timing and population-level seasonality.

Breeding seasonality generates reproductive trade-offs in a long-lived mammal

The paper examines reproductive trade-offs in wild chacma baboons by analyzing birth timing effects on offspring survival and maternal interbirth intervals, revealing an adaptive conflict between current and future reproduction.

The evolution of infanticide by females in mammals

This study examines the evolutionary factors driving female infanticide in mammals, finding it is more common in social species with high reproductive output and resource competition.