Silver spoon effect: early-life environment and adult survival in a primate.
Early environmental conditions can have long-lasting effects on survival and reproductive fitness. Using a 23 year-long monitoring data set of captive mouse lemur's life history traits, we tested a relationship between maternal allocation to offspring (N = 1365) and their adulthood survival. Maternal characteristics such as age or body condition did not affect allocation to offspring whatever the…
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