Seasonal and social influences on fecal androgen and glucocorticoid excretion in wild male long-tailed macaques (Macaca fascicularis)

Physiology and Behavior

Volumn 98, Issue 1-2, 2009, Pages 168-175

  Girard Buttoz, C ^a   Heistermann, M ^a   Krummel, S ^a,b   Engelhardt, A ^a,c  

^a GERMAN PRIMATE CENTER   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

^c FREIE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Androgens; Challenge hypothesis; Glucocorticoids; Long tailed macaques; Macaca fascicularis; Seasonality

Indexed keywords

ANDROGEN; GLUCOCORTICOID; RAIN;

AGGRESSION; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONCEPTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; COPULATION; ENVIRONMENTAL TEMPERATURE; EXCRETION; FECES; INDONESIA; MACACA; MALE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPRODUCTIVE SUCCESS; SEASONAL VARIATION; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL DOMINANCE; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT;

AGONISTIC BEHAVIOR; ANDROGENS; ANIMALS; COPULATION; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; ESTROUS CYCLE; FECES; FEMALE; GLUCOCORTICOIDS; HIERARCHY, SOCIAL; MACACA FASCICULARIS; MALE; RAIN; SEASONS; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT; TEMPERATURE;

EID: 67649486871     PISSN: 00319384     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.physbeh.2009.05.005     Document Type: Article

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