Sexual maturation of female Japanese macaques under poor nutritional conditions and food-enhanced perineal swelling in the Koshima troop

International Journal of Primatology

Volumn 18, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 553-579

  Mori, Akio ^a   Yamaguchi, Naotsugu ^a   Watanabe, Kunio ^a   Shimizu, Keiko ^a  

^a KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Adolescence; Food restriction; Macaca fuscata; Sexual maturation; Sexual swelling

Indexed keywords

FOOD PROVISIONING; JAPANESE MACAQUE; NUTRITION; PERINEAL SWELLING; SEXUAL MATURITY;

MACACA; MACACA FUSCATA;

EID: 0030764917     PISSN: 01640291     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1026363206561     Document Type: Article

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