Proximate mechanisms of reproductive monopolization in male moustached tamarins (Saguinus mystax)

American Journal of Primatology

Volumn 64, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 39-56

  Huck, Maren ^a,b   Löttker, Petra ^a,c   Heymann, Eckhard W ^a  

^a Abteilung Verhaltensokologie and Soziobiologie   (Germany)

^b BIELEFELD UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MÜNSTER   (Germany)

Author keywords

Agonistic; Consortship; Mate guarding; Moustached tamarins; Olfactory cues; Reproductive monopolization

Indexed keywords

AGONISTIC BEHAVIOR; MATE GUARDING; OLFACTORY CUE; POLYANDRY; PRIMATE; REPRODUCTION;

AGGRESSION; ANIMAL; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANTHROPOIDEA; ARTICLE; COPULATION; FEMALE; FERTILE PERIOD; MALE; PATERNAL BEHAVIOR; PHYSIOLOGY; REPRODUCTION; SCENT GLAND; SECRETION; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; TERRITORIALITY;

AGONISTIC BEHAVIOR; ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; COPULATION; FEMALE; FERTILE PERIOD; MALE; PATERNAL BEHAVIOR; REPRODUCTION; SAGUINUS; SCENT GLANDS; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; TERRITORIALITY;

ANTHROPOIDEA; SAGUINUS; SAGUINUS IMPERATOR; SAGUINUS MYSTAX;

EID: 7244232791     PISSN: 02752565     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ajp.20060     Document Type: Article

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