Dominance, aggression and testosterone in wild chimpanzees: A test of the 'challenge hypothesis'

Animal Behaviour

Volumn 67, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 113-123

  Muller, Martin N ^a,b   Wrangham, Richard W ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGGRESSION; DOMINANCE; PHYSIOLOGY; PRIMATE; TESTOSTERONE;

AVES; PAN (APE); PAN TROGLODYTES; PAN TROGLODYTES SCHWEINFURTHII; PRIMATES; TROGLODYTES;

EID: 1142281885     PISSN: 00033472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.anbehav.2003.03.013     Document Type: Article

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