Mating behavior and endocrine profiles of wild black and white colobus monkeys (Colobus guereza): Toward an understanding of their life history and mating system

American Journal of Primatology

Volumn 68, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 383-396

  Harris, Tara R ^a,c   Monfort, Steven L ^b  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b SMITHSONIAN CONSERVATION BIOLOGY INSTITUTE   (United States)

^c MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR EVOLUTIONARY ANTHROPOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Colobus guereza; Life history; Mating behavior; Reproductive endocrinology

Indexed keywords

ESTROGEN; PROGESTERONE;

LIFE HISTORY; MAMMAL; MATING BEHAVIOR; PREGNANCY; REPRODUCTION; URINE;

AMENORRHEA; ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; ARTICLE; COLOBINAE; COPULATION; FEMALE; LACTATION; MALE; OVARY; OVULATION; PHYSIOLOGY; PREGNANCY; REPRODUCTION; SECRETION; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; URINE; WILD ANIMAL;

AMENORRHEA; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, WILD; COLOBUS; COPULATION; ESTROGENS; FEMALE; LACTATION; MALE; OVARY; OVULATION; PREGNANCY; PROGESTERONE; REPRODUCTION; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL;

AFRICA; EAST AFRICA; KIBALE NATIONAL PARK; SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA; UGANDA;

COLOBINAE; COLOBUS; COLOBUS GUEREZA;

EID: 33645795667     PISSN: 02752565     EISSN: 10982345     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ajp.20232     Document Type: Article

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