Wild chimpanzees exchange meat for sex on a long-term basis

PLoS ONE

Volumn 4, Issue 4, 2009, Pages

  Gomes, Cristina M ^a   Boesch, Christophe ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR EVOLUTIONARY ANTHROPOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANESTRUS; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL FOOD; ANIMAL HUNTING; ARTICLE; CALORIC INTAKE; CHIMPANZEE; COPULATION; ESTRUS; FEMALE; LONG TERM EXPOSURE; MALE; MATING SUCCESS; MEAT; NONHUMAN; NUTRITIONAL VALUE; REPRODUCTIVE SUCCESS; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SEXUAL INTERCOURSE; WILD ANIMAL; ANIMAL; FOOD; PAN TROGLODYTES; PHYSIOLOGY;

MAMMALIA; PAN; PRIMATES;

ANIMALS; FEMALE; FOOD; MALE; MEAT; PAN TROGLODYTES; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL;

EID: 65249100728     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0005116     Document Type: Article

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