Female reproductive signaling, and male mating behavior, in the olive baboon

Hormones and Behavior

Volumn 55, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 60-67

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

^a UNIVERSITY OF ROEHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

^b GERMAN PRIMATE CENTER   (Germany)

Author keywords

Endocrine analysis; Primate; Sexual selection; Signaling

Indexed keywords

ESTROGEN; GESTAGEN;

AGGRESSION; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BABOON; BEHAVIOR CHANGE; COITUS; COLOR; CONTROLLED STUDY; COURTSHIP; FECES ANALYSIS; FEMALE; FEMALE GENITAL SYSTEM; FERTILE PERIOD; GROOMING; MALE; MATE CHOICE; MATING; NONHUMAN; ORGAN SIZE; OVULATION; PHOTOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR;

ANIMALS; ESTROGENS; FECES; FEMALE; FERTILE PERIOD; LINEAR MODELS; MALE; OVULATION; OVULATION PREDICTION; PAPIO ANUBIS; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PROGESTINS; SEX CHARACTERISTICS; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR;

EID: 58149115026     PISSN: 0018506X     EISSN: 10956867     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.yhbeh.2008.08.007     Document Type: Article

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