The causes of physiological suppression among female meerkats: A role for subordinate restraint due to the threat of infanticide?

Hormones and Behavior

Volumn 53, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 131-139

  Young, Andrew J ^a   Monfort, Steven L ^b   Clutton Brock, Tim H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b SMITHSONIAN CONSERVATION BIOLOGY INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Conflict; Cooperation; Cooperative breeding; Dominance; Dominant control; Eusociality; Infanticide; Reproductive skew; Reproductive suppression; Social stress

Indexed keywords

ESTROGEN; GLUCOCORTICOID;

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ARTICLE; BODY CONSTITUTION; BREEDING; CARNIVORA; CHRONIC STRESS; COMPARATIVE STUDY; FECES; FEMALE; FERTILITY; INFANTICIDE; MALE; MEERKAT; NONHUMAN; PHYSIOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STRESS; SURICATA SURICATTA; THREAT;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; ANIMALS; DOMINANCE-SUBORDINATION; ESTROGENS; FEMALE; GLUCOCORTICOIDS; HERPESTIDAE; OVULATION INHIBITION; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL;

EID: 37349112425     PISSN: 0018506X     EISSN: 10956867     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.yhbeh.2007.09.005     Document Type: Article

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