Inter-mount social interactions during heterosexual and homosexual consortships in Japanese macaques

Ethology

Volumn 114, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 564-574

  Vasey, Paul L ^a   VanderLaan, Doug P ^a   Rains, Derek ^a   Duckworth, Nadine ^a   Kovacovsky, Stefani D ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LETHBRIDGE   (Canada)

^b MOUNT HOLYOKE COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGGRESSION; BEHAVIOR; HOMOSEXUALITY; PRIMATE; SEX-RELATED DIFFERENCE; SOCIAL NETWORK;

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

MACACA; MACACA FUSCATA;

EID: 43049183648     PISSN: 01791613     EISSN: 14390310     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1439-0310.2008.01502.x     Document Type: Article

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