Rates of self-directed behaviour and faecal glucocorticoid levels are not correlated in female wild olive baboons (Papio hamadryas anubis)

Stress

Volumn 12, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 526-532

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

^a UNIVERSITY OF ROEHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^c GERMAN PRIMATE CENTER   (Germany)

Author keywords

Anxiety; Auto grooming; Captive welfare; Dominance rank; Female primates; Natural environment

Indexed keywords

HYDROCORTISONE; GLUCOCORTICOID;

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BABOON; CONTROLLED STUDY; COPING BEHAVIOR; FECES; FEMALE; GROOMING; NONHUMAN; PHYSIOLOGICAL STRESS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCRATCHING; SELF DIRECTED BEHAVIOR; WILD ANIMAL; YAWNING; ANIMAL; ANXIETY; CHEMISTRY; METABOLISM; PAPIO ANUBIS; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; SECRETION (PROCESS);

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, WILD; ANXIETY; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; FECES; FEMALE; GLUCOCORTICOIDS; GROOMING; HYDROCORTISONE; PAPIO ANUBIS; STRESS, PHYSIOLOGICAL;

EID: 75749107870     PISSN: 10253890     EISSN: 16078888     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3109/10253890902756565     Document Type: Article

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