Mating first, mating more: Biological market fluctuation in a wild prosimian

PLoS ONE

Volumn 4, Issue 3, 2009, Pages

  Norscia, Ivan ^a   Antonacci, Daniela ^a   Palagi, Elisabetta ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PISA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BREEDING; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GROOMING; MALE; MATE CHOICE; MATING; NONHUMAN; ODOR; PROSIMIAN; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SMELLING; AGGRESSION; ANIMAL; PHYSIOLOGY;

LEMUR; PRIMATES; PROPITHECUS; PROPITHECUS VERREAUXI; STREPSIRHINI;

PHEROMONE;

AGGRESSION; ANIMALS; FEMALE; LEMUR; MALE; MATING PREFERENCE, ANIMAL; PHEROMONES; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; STREPSIRHINI;

EID: 61849084668     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0004679     Document Type: Article

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