Behavioural and endocrine predictors of dominance and tolerance in female common marmosets, Callithrix jacchus

Animal Behaviour

Volumn 51, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 657-674

  Saltzman, Wendy ^a   Schultz Darken, Nancy J ^a   Abbott, David H ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN   (United States)

^b University of Wisconsin

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMMON MARMOSET; DOMINANCE; ENDOCRINE; TOLERANCE;

CALLITHRIX JACCHUS;

EID: 0029666963     PISSN: 00033472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/anbe.1996.0070     Document Type: Article

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