Mate competition and reproductive correlates of female dispersal in a polygynous primate species (Rhinopithecus roxellana)

Behavioural Processes

Volumn 79, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 165-170

  Zhao, Dapeng ^a   Ji, Weihong ^b   Li, Baoguo ^a   Watanabe, Kunio ^c  

^a NORTHWEST UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b MASSEY UNIVERSITY   (New Zealand)

^c KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Female dispersal; Mate competition; Polygynous; Reproductive output; Sichuan snub nosed monkeys

Indexed keywords

ADULT; BEHAVIORAL RESPONSE; DECISION MAKING; DISPERSAL; EMIGRATION; ENDEMIC SPECIES; FEMALE BEHAVIOR; IMMIGRATION; INBREEDING AVOIDANCE; INTRASPECIFIC COMPETITION; MATE CHOICE; POLYGYNY; PRIMATE; REPRODUCTIVE PRODUCTIVITY; REPRODUCTIVE SUCCESS;

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CHINA; COMPETITIVE BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; IMMIGRATION; MATING SYSTEM; NONHUMAN; PRIMATE; REPRODUCTIVE SUCCESS;

ANIMAL MIGRATION; ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; CHINA; COLOBINAE; FEMALE; POPULATION DYNAMICS; REPRODUCTION; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL;

ASIA; CHINA; EURASIA; FAR EAST; SHAANXI; ZHOUZHI NATURE RESERVE;

ANIMALIA; PRIMATES; PYGATHRIX ROXELLANA;

EID: 53149112691     PISSN: 03766357     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.beproc.2008.07.006     Document Type: Article

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