Social stressors and coping mechanisms in wild female baboons (Papio hamadryas ursinus)

Hormones and Behavior

Volumn 53, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 254-265

  Crockford, Catherine ^a   Wittig, Roman M ^a   Whitten, Patricia L ^b   Seyfarth, Robert M ^a   Cheney, Dorothy L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Affiliation; Baboon; Fecal glucocorticoids; Female; Grooming; Social stressors

Indexed keywords

GLUCOCORTICOID;

AGGRESSION; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BABOON; COPING BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; GROOMING; HORMONE BLOOD LEVEL; INFANCY; LACTATION; MENSTRUAL CYCLE; NONHUMAN; PAPIO HAMADRYAS; PREGNANCY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPRODUCTION; SOCIAL ASPECT; SOCIAL STRESS; VOCALIZATION;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; AGGRESSION; ANIMALS; DOMINANCE-SUBORDINATION; FECES; FEMALE; GLUCOCORTICOIDS; GROOMING; HIERARCHY, SOCIAL; LINEAR MODELS; MENSTRUAL CYCLE; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PAPIO HAMADRYAS; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY, ANIMAL; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; VOCALIZATION, ANIMAL;

EID: 37449021437     PISSN: 0018506X     EISSN: 10956867     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.yhbeh.2007.10.007     Document Type: Article

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