Courtship behaviour in Japanese macaques during heterosexual and homosexual consortships

Behavioural Processes

Volumn 78, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 401-407

  Vasey, P L ^a   Rains, D ^a   VanderLaan, D P ^a   Duckworth, N ^a   Kovacovsky, S D ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LETHBRIDGE   (Canada)

^b MOUNT HOLYOKE COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

Courtship; Homosexual behaviour; Japanese macaques; Sex differences

Indexed keywords

BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY; COURTSHIP; HOMOSEXUALITY; PRIMATE; SEX-RELATED DIFFERENCE; VOCALIZATION;

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; COURTSHIP; FEMALE; HETEROSEXUALITY; HOMOSEXUALITY; MACACA; MALE; NONHUMAN; SEX DIFFERENCE; VOCALIZATION;

ANIMALS; CHOICE BEHAVIOR; COPULATION; COURTSHIP; FEMALE; MACACA; MALE; MATING PREFERENCE, ANIMAL; SEX CHARACTERISTICS; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL;

ASIA; EURASIA; FAR EAST; HONSHU; JAPAN; KINKI; KYOTO;

MACACA; MACACA FUSCATA;

EID: 43049168923     PISSN: 03766357     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.beproc.2008.02.006     Document Type: Article

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