Triadic male-infant-male interaction serves in bond maintenance in male Assamese macaques

• Josefine Kalbitz ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Software, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: jkalbit@gwdg.de

  Affiliations Department of Behavioral Ecology, Johann-Friedrich-Blumenbach Institute for Zoology and Anthropology, University of Göttingen, Göttingen, Germany, German Primate Centre, Leibniz Institute of Primate Research, Göttingen, Germany, Department of Cognitive Ethology, German Primate Centre, Leibniz Institute of Primate Research, Göttingen, Germany

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-5229-2688

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• Oliver Schülke ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Oliver Schülke, Julia Ostner

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  ¶‡ These authors are joint last authors on this work.

  Affiliations Department of Behavioral Ecology, Johann-Friedrich-Blumenbach Institute for Zoology and Anthropology, University of Göttingen, Göttingen, Germany, German Primate Centre, Leibniz Institute of Primate Research, Göttingen, Germany

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• Julia Ostner

  Contributed equally to this work with: Oliver Schülke, Julia Ostner

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  ¶‡ These authors are joint last authors on this work.

  Affiliations Department of Behavioral Ecology, Johann-Friedrich-Blumenbach Institute for Zoology and Anthropology, University of Göttingen, Göttingen, Germany, German Primate Centre, Leibniz Institute of Primate Research, Göttingen, Germany

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