Female sexual behavior, but not sex skin swelling, reliably indicates the timing of the fertile phase in wild long-tailed macaques (Macaca fascicularis)

Hormones and Behavior

Volumn 47, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 195-204

  Engelhardt, Antje ^a,b,c   Hodges, J Keith ^a   Niemitz, Carsten ^b   Heistermann, Michael ^a  

^a GERMAN PRIMATE CENTER   (Germany)

^b FREIE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

Fecal steroids; Female behavior; Fertile phase; Macaca fascicularis; Sex skin swellings

Indexed keywords

ESTROGEN; GESTAGEN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; COPULATION; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; EDEMA; FEMALE; FERTILITY; MACACA; MALE; MEASUREMENT; MENSTRUAL CYCLE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RELIABILITY; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SOCIAL ASPECT;

ANAL CANAL; ANIMALS; ESTROGENS; ESTROUS CYCLE; FECES; FEMALE; FERTILITY; MACACA FASCICULARIS; MALE; PROGESTERONE; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; SKIN; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR;

EID: 12344313399     PISSN: 0018506X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.yhbeh.2004.09.007     Document Type: Article

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