Mating patterns and sexual swellings in pair-living and multimale groups of wild white-handed gibbons, Hylobates lar

Animal Behaviour

Volumn 75, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 991-1001

  Barelli, Claudia ^a,b   Heistermann, Michael ^b   Boesch, Christophe ^a   Reichard, Ulrich H ^c  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR EVOLUTIONARY ANTHROPOLOGY   (Germany)

^b GERMAN PRIMATE CENTER   (Germany)

^c SOUTHERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

faecal progestogen; gibbons; Hylobates lar; mating behaviour; multimale social system; ovulation; paternity confusion; pregnancy; sexual swellings

Indexed keywords

COPULATION; DISPLAY BEHAVIOR; FEMALE BEHAVIOR; GOOD GENES HYPOTHESIS; LACTATION; PAIR BOND; PATERNITY; PREGNANCY; PRIMATE; SIGNALING; SOCIAL NETWORK;

ASIA; CENTRAL REGION [THAILAND]; EURASIA; KHAO YAI NATIONAL PARK; SOUTHEAST ASIA; THAILAND;

HAPLORHINI; HYLOBATES LAR; HYLOBATIDAE;

EID: 39549102839     PISSN: 00033472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.anbehav.2007.08.012     Document Type: Article

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