Male Barbary macaques eavesdrop on mating outcome: a playback study

Animal Behaviour

Volumn 75, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 1885-1891

  Pfefferle, Dana ^a   Heistermann, Michael ^a   Hodges, J Keith ^a   Fischer, Julia ^a  

^a GERMAN PRIMATE CENTER   (Germany)

Author keywords

Barbary macaque; copulation call; Macaca sylvanus; mating outcome; playback; sperm competition

Indexed keywords

COPULATION; MATE GUARDING; PLAY; PRIMATE; SPERM COMPETITION; WALKING;

MACACA; MACACA SYLVANUS;

EID: 44349176176     PISSN: 00033472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.anbehav.2007.12.003     Document Type: Article

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