Social cues and hormone levels in male Octodon degus (Rodentia): A field test of the Challenge Hypothesis

Hormones and Behavior

Volumn 47, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 311-318

  Soto Gamboa, Mauricio ^a   Villalón, Manuel ^b   Bozinovic, Francisco ^b  

^a UNIVERSIDAD AUSTRAL DE CHILE   (Chile)

^b PONTIFICIA UNIVERSIDAD CATÓLICA DE CHILE   (Chile)

Author keywords

Challenge Hypothesis; Cortisol; Degu; Octodon degus; Social instability; Social interaction; Social stress; Testosterone

Indexed keywords

GLUCOCORTICOID; HYDROCORTISONE; TESTOSTERONE;

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; BREEDING; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; HORMONE INHIBITION; HORMONE RESPONSE; HYDROCORTISONE BLOOD LEVEL; HYPOTHESIS; MALE; MATING; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RODENT; SOCIAL INTERACTION; SOCIAL ISOLATION; SOCIAL PROBLEM; TERRITORIALITY; TESTOSTERONE BLOOD LEVEL; WILD TYPE;

EID: 13544273828     PISSN: 0018506X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.yhbeh.2004.11.010     Document Type: Article

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