Female hierarchy instability, male immigration and infanticide increase glucocorticoid levels in female chacma baboons

Animal Behaviour

Volumn 71, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 1227-1237

  Engh, Anne L ^a   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)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DOMINANCE; IMMIGRATION; INFANTICIDE; PREDATION; REPRODUCTION;

AFRICA; BOTSWANA; OKAVANGO DELTA; SOUTHERN AFRICA; SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA;

PAPIO; PAPIO HAMADRYAS; PAPIO URSINUS;

EID: 33646487130     PISSN: 00033472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.anbehav.2005.11.009     Document Type: Article

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