Female chimpanzees use copulation calls flexibly to prevent social competition

PLoS ONE

Volumn 3, Issue 6, 2008, Pages

  Townsend, Simon W ^a,b   Deschner, Tobias ^c   Zuberbühler, Klaus ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS   (United Kingdom)

^b BUDONGO CONSERVATION FIELD STATION   (Uganda)

^c MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR EVOLUTIONARY ANTHROPOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL COMMUNICATION; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CHIMPANZEE; COMPETITION; CONCEPTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; COPULATION; FEMALE; FEMALE FERTILITY; HORMONE DETERMINATION; MALE; MATE CHOICE; MATING; NONHUMAN; PATERNITY; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL ADAPTATION; UGANDA;

ANIMALS; COMPETITIVE BEHAVIOR; COPULATION; FEMALE; HORMONES; MALE; PAN TROGLODYTES; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; VOCALIZATION, ANIMAL;

PAN; PAN TROGLODYTES SCHWEINFURTHII; PRIMATES;

EID: 49149107796     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0002431     Document Type: Article

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