Mechanisms of sexual selection: Sexual swellings and estrogen concentrations as fertility indicators and cues for male consort decisions in wild baboons

Hormones and Behavior

Volumn 51, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 114-125

  Gesquiere, Laurence R ^a   Wango, Emmanuel O ^c,e   Alberts, Susan C ^b,c   Altmann, Jeanne ^a,c,d  

^a PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c INSTITUTE OF PRIMATE RESEARCH   (Kenya)

^d BROOKFIELD ZOO   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF NAIROBI   (Kenya)

Author keywords

Baboons; Consortships; Estrogen; Fecal steroids; Mate choice; Papio; Sexual swellings

Indexed keywords

ESTROGEN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BABOON; CONCEPTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DECISION MAKING; FECES ANALYSIS; FEMALE; FERTILITY; GROUPS BY AGE; MALE; MATE CHOICE; NONHUMAN; OVULATION; PARITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROBABILITY; REPRODUCTION; SEX DIFFERENCE; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SEXUAL MATURATION; SEXUAL SELECTION;

ANIMALS; CUES; ESTROGENS; FECES; FEMALE; FERTILITY; MALE; MATING PREFERENCE, ANIMAL; MENSTRUAL CYCLE; PAPIO; SOCIAL DOMINANCE;

EID: 33751526478     PISSN: 0018506X     EISSN: 10956867     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.yhbeh.2006.08.010     Document Type: Article

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