Behavioural and hormonal responses to predation in female chacma baboons (Papio hamadryas ursinus)

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 273, Issue 1587, 2006, Pages 707-712

  Engh, Anne L ^a,e   Beehner, Jacinta C ^a,b   Bergman, Thore J ^a   Whitten, Patricia L ^c   Hoffmeier, Rebekah R ^d   Seyfarth, Robert M ^a   Cheney, Dorothy L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d Moremi Baboon Project   (Botswana)

^e NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

Baboon; Bereavement; Glucocorticoids; Grooming; Predation; Stress

Indexed keywords

GLUCOCORTICOID;

BEHAVIORAL RESPONSE; GROOMING; HORMONE; MORTALITY; PHYSIOLOGICAL RESPONSE; PREDATION; PRIMATE; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BEHAVIORAL SCIENCE; BEREAVEMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HORMONE RESPONSE; NONHUMAN; PAPIO HAMADRYAS; PREDATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; ANIMAL; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL DISEASE; CHEMISTRY; FECES; GROOMING; MALE; METABOLISM; NONPARAMETRIC TEST; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; STRESS;

PAPIO; PAPIO URSINUS;

ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; FECES; FEMALE; GLUCOCORTICOIDS; GROOMING; MALE; PAPIO HAMADRYAS; PREDATORY BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; STRESS;

EID: 33646461592     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2005.3378     Document Type: Article

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