Social dominance, aggression and faecal glucocorticoid levels in a wild population of wolves, Canis lupus

Animal Behaviour

Volumn 67, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 387-396

  Sands, Jennifer ^a   Creel, Scott ^a  

^a MONTANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGGRESSION; BEHAVIORAL RESPONSE; CANID; DOMINANCE; FACIES; STRESS;

CANIDAE; CANIS; CANIS FAMILIARIS; CANIS LUPUS; CARNIVORA; HELOGALE; HELOGALE PARVULA; HERPESTIDAE; LYCAON PICTUS; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 1542318486     PISSN: 00033472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.anbehav.2003.03.019     Document Type: Article

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