Display of proceptive behaviors in relation to urinary and fecal progestin levels over the ovarian cycle in female tufted capuchin monkeys

Hormones and Behavior

Volumn 36, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 252-265

  Carosi, Monica ^a   Heistermann, Michael ^b   Visalberghi, Elisabetta ^a  

^a CNR   (Italy)

^b GERMAN PRIMATE CENTER   (Germany)

Author keywords

Attractivity; Fecal hormones; Proceptivity; Tufted capuchin; Urinary hormones

Indexed keywords

GESTAGEN; PROGESTERONE;

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; COURTSHIP; EJACULATION; FEMALE; MALE; MONKEY; NONHUMAN; OVARY CYCLE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SMELLING; VOCALIZATION;

EID: 0033402001     PISSN: 0018506X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/hbeh.1999.1545     Document Type: Article

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