Focused grooming networks and stress alleviation in wild female baboons

Hormones and Behavior

Volumn 54, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 170-177

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

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL   (United Kingdom)

^c EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Affiliation; Coping mechanism; Fecal glucocorticoids; Female baboons; Grooming; Social instability; Social stressors

Indexed keywords

GLUCOCORTICOID;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BABOON; CONTROLLED STUDY; COPING BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; GROOMING; HORMONE BLOOD LEVEL; INFANTICIDE; MALE; NONHUMAN; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOCIAL INTERACTION; STRESS;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, WILD; FECES; FEMALE; GLUCOCORTICOIDS; GROOMING; HIERARCHY, SOCIAL; MALE; PAPIO; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; STRESS; TERRITORIALITY;

EID: 43949097877     PISSN: 0018506X     EISSN: 10956867     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.yhbeh.2008.02.009     Document Type: Article

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