Social status does not predict corticosteroid levels in postdispersal male spotted hyenas

Hormones and Behavior

Volumn 43, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 474-479

  Goymann, Wolfgang ^a   East, Marion L ^a,b   Wachter, Bettina ^a,b,c   Höner, Oliver P ^a,b,c   Möstl, Erich ^d   Hofer, Heribert ^a,b  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR ORNITHOLOGY   (Germany)

^b LEIBNIZ INSTITUTE FOR ZOO AND WILDLIFE RESEARCH   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^d UNIVERSITY OF VETERINARY MEDICINE   (Austria)

Author keywords

Corticosteroids; Cortisol; Mate choice; Noninvasive monitoring; Social status; Spotted hyena; Stress; Tenure

Indexed keywords

CORTICOSTEROID;

AGGRESSION; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CARNIVORA; COMPETITIVE BEHAVIOR; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; FECES LEVEL; FEMALE; HYENA; MALE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOCIAL INTERACTION; SOCIAL PROBLEM; SOCIAL STATUS; STRESS;

EID: 0037871600     PISSN: 0018506X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0018-506X(03)00032-1     Document Type: Article

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