The timing of ovulation with respect to sexual swelling detumescence in wild olive baboons

Primates

Volumn 49, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 295-299

  Higham, James P ^a,b   Heistermann, Michael ^c   Ross, Caroline ^a   Semple, Stuart ^a   MacLarnon, Ann ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ROEHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^c GERMAN PRIMATE CENTER   (Germany)

Author keywords

Faecal hormone analysis; Olive baboons; Sexual swelling; Timing of ovulation

Indexed keywords

HORMONE;

MATING BEHAVIOR; OVIPOSITION; PREGNANCY; PRIMATE; SEX ROLE; TIME DEPENDENT BEHAVIOR;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; FECES; FEMALE; HISTOLOGY; NIGERIA; OBSERVATION; OVULATION; PERINEUM; PHYSIOLOGY; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SEXUAL DEVELOPMENT; TIME; VULVA;

ANIMALS; FECES; FEMALE; HORMONES; NIGERIA; OBSERVATION; OVULATION; PERINEUM; SEX CHARACTERISTICS; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; TIME FACTORS; VULVA;

OLEA EUROPAEA VAR. SYLVESTRIS; PAPIO; PAPIO ANUBIS;

EID: 54949155978     PISSN: 00328332     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10329-008-0099-9     Document Type: Article

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