Coping with a challenging environment: Effects of seasonal variability and reproductive status on glucocorticoid concentrations of female baboons (Papio cynocephalus)

Hormones and Behavior

Volumn 54, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 410-416

  Gesquiere, Laurence R ^a   Khan, Memuna ^b   Shek, Lili ^a   Wango, Tim L ^c   Wango, Emmanuel O ^c   Alberts, Susan C ^d,e   Altmann, Jeanne ^a,c,e  

^a PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b RIPON COLLEGE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NAIROBI   (Kenya)

^d DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e INSTITUTE OF PRIMATE RESEARCH   (Kenya)

Author keywords

Chronic stress; Dry season; Environmental stressors; Feeding behavior; Female baboons; Glucocorticoids; Heat stress; Papio; Reproductive status

Indexed keywords

GLUCOCORTICOID;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BABOON; BEHAVIOR MODIFICATION; CHRONIC STRESS; CONCENTRATION RESPONSE; CONTROLLED STUDY; COPING BEHAVIOR; ENVIRONMENTAL STRESS; EVOLUTIONARY ADAPTATION; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; GENITAL SYSTEM; HEAT STRESS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPRODUCTION; SEASONAL VARIATION;

ANIMALS; AROUSAL; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; FOOD DEPRIVATION; GLUCOCORTICOIDS; HEAT; NATURAL DISASTERS; PAPIO CYNOCEPHALUS; PREGNANCY; SEASONS; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT; WATER DEPRIVATION;

EID: 47549098781     PISSN: 0018506X     EISSN: 10956867     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.yhbeh.2008.04.007     Document Type: Article

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