Post-conception mating in wild long-tailed macaques (Macaca fascicularis): Characterization, endocrine correlates and functional significance

Hormones and Behavior

Volumn 51, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 3-10

  Engelhardt, Antje ^a,b   Hodges, J Keith ^a   Heistermann, Michael ^a  

^a GERMAN PRIMATE CENTER   (Germany)

^b FREIE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Attractivity; Conception cycle; Estrogens; Fecal hormones; Female sexual behavior; Long tailed macaque; Macaca fascicularis; Post conception mating; Progestogens; Sex skin swelling

Indexed keywords

ESTROGEN; GESTAGEN; SEX HORMONE;

ANALYTIC METHOD; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONCEPTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; COPULATION; EJACULATION; FECES ANALYSIS; FEMALE; GESTATION PERIOD; HORMONE DETERMINATION; MACACA; MALE; MATING; MONKEY; NONHUMAN; PATERNITY; PREGNANCY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPRODUCTION; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR;

ANIMALS; COPULATION; ESTROGENS; FECES; FEMALE; FERTILIZATION; MACACA FASCICULARIS; MALE; MENSTRUAL CYCLE; PREGNANCY; PROGESTINS; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; SOCIAL DOMINANCE;

EID: 33751537113     PISSN: 0018506X     EISSN: 10956867     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.yhbeh.2006.06.009     Document Type: Article

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