Extra-unit sexual behaviour among wild sichuan snub-nosed monkeys (Rhinopithecus roxellana) in the Qinling Mountains of China

Folia Primatologica

Volumn 76, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 172-176

  Zhao, Dapeng ^a   Li, Baoguo ^a   Li, Yinhua ^a   Wada, Kazuo ^b  

^a NORTHWEST UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b Wildlife Conservation Society   (Japan)

Author keywords

Copulation; Heterozygosity hypothesis; Mate choice; One male unit; Sichuan snub nosed monkey

Indexed keywords

PYGATHRIX ROXELLANA;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CHINA; COLOBINAE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; FEMALE; MALE; OBSERVATION; PHYSIOLOGY; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR;

ANIMALS; CHINA; COLOBINAE; FEMALE; MALE; OBSERVATION; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL;

EID: 20944436474     PISSN: 00155713     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000084379     Document Type: Article

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