Male Homosexual Behaviour Accompanied by Ejaculation in a Free-Ranging Troop of Japanese Macaques (Macaca fuscata)

Folia Primatologica

Volumn 69, Issue 6, 1998, Pages 364-367

  Takenoshita, Yuji ^a  

^a KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Arashiyama; Homosexual behaviour; Macaca fuscata; Mounting

Indexed keywords

MACACA; MACACA FUSCATA;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; EJACULATION; FEMALE; HOMOSEXUALITY; JAPAN; MACACA; MALE; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR;

ANIMALS; EJACULATION; FEMALE; HOMOSEXUALITY, MALE; JAPAN; MACACA; MALE; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL;

EID: 0542399599     PISSN: 00155713     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000021653     Document Type: Article

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