Reproductive monitoring of free-ranging female mountain gorillas by urinary hormone analysis

American Journal of Primatology

Volumn 51, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 209-215

  Czekala, Nancy ^a,c   Sicotte, Pascale ^b  

^a ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF SAN DIEGO   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

^c INSTITUTE FOR CONSERVATION RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

Extra group mating attempt; Gestation; Labial swelling; Mountain gorilla; Ovarian cycle; Urinary hormones

Indexed keywords

SEX HORMONE;

MONITORING; PRIMATE; REPRODUCTIVE BEHAVIOR;

ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; ARTICLE; FEMALE; FERTILIZATION; GORILLA; MENSTRUAL CYCLE; PHYSIOLOGY; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY TEST; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; URINE;

ANIMALS; FEMALE; FERTILIZATION; GONADAL STEROID HORMONES; GORILLA GORILLA; MENSTRUAL CYCLE; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY TESTS; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL;

ANIMALIA; GORILLA GORILLA BERINGEI; GORILLA GORILLA GORILLA; PRIMATES;

EID: 0033919102     PISSN: 02752565     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/1098-2345(200007)51:3<209::AID-AJP6>3.0.CO;2-6     Document Type: Article

References (12)

1. Czekala NM, Mitchell WR, Lasley BL. 1987. Direct measurements of urinary estrone conjugates during the normal menstrual cycle of the gorilla (Gorilla gorilla). Am J Primatol 12:223-229.
2. Czekala NM, Roser JF, Mortensen RB, Reichard T, Lasley BL. 1988a. Urinary hormone analysis as a diagnostic tool to evaluate the ovarian function of female gorilla (Gorilla gorilla). J Reprod Fertil 82:255-261.
3. Czekala NM, Shideler SE, Lasley BL. 1988b. Comparisons of female reproductive hormone patterns in the hominoids. In: Schwartz JH, editor. Orang-utan biology. New York: Oxford Press. p 117-122.
4. Dixson AF. 1981. The natural history of the gorilla. Columbia University Press. p 152.
5. Harcourt AH. 1978. Strategies of emigration and transfer by primates,with particular reference to gorillas. Ziets Tierpsychol 48:401-420.
6. Harcourt AH, Fossey D, Stewart KJ, Watts DP. 1980. Reproduction in wild gorillas and some comparisons with chimpanzees. J Reprod Fertil 28(Suppl.):59-70.
7. Harcourt AH, Stewart KJ, Fossey D. 1981. Gorilla reproduction in the wild. In: Graham C, editor. Reproductive biology of great apes. New York: Academic Press. p 265-279.
8. Mitchell WR, Presley S, Czekala NM, Lasley BL. 1982.Urinary immunoreactive estrogen and pregnanediol-3-glucuronide during the normal menstrual cycle of the female lowland gorilla (Gorilla gorilla). Am J Primatol 2:167-175.
9. Sicotte P. 1993. Intergroup interactions and female transfer in mountain gorillas: influence of group composition on male behavior. Am J Primatol 30:21-36.
10. Sicotte P. 1994. Effect of male competition on male-female relationships in bi-male groups of mountain gorillas. Ethology 97:47-64.
11. Stewart KJ, Harcourt AH. 1987. Gorillas: variation in female relationships In: Smuts BB, Cheney DL, Seyfarth RM, Wrangham RW, Struhsaker TT, editors. Primate societies. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, p 155-164.
12. Watts DP. 1991. Mountain gorillas reproduction and sexual behavior. Am J Primatol 24:211-225.