Dynamics of social and energetic stress in wild female chimpanzees

Hormones and Behavior

Volumn 58, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 440-449

  Emery Thompson, Melissa ^a   Muller, Martin N ^a   Kahlenberg, Sonya M ^b   Wrangham, Richard W ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO   (United States)

^b BATES COLLEGE   (United States)

^c HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Aggression; Coercion; Cortisol; Energetics; Female competition; Lactation; Reproductive state; Social stressors; Stress hormones

Indexed keywords

HYDROCORTISONE;

AGGRESSION; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CHIMPANZEE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOMINANCE BEHAVIOR; ENERGETIC STRESS; ESTRUS; FOOD INTAKE; FRUIT; HYDROCORTISONE URINE LEVEL; LACTATION; MALE; MATING; NONHUMAN; PERSUASIVE COMMUNICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPRODUCTION; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL INTERACTION; SOCIAL STRESS; STRESS;

AGGRESSION; ANIMALS; CONFLICT (PSYCHOLOGY); DOMINANCE-SUBORDINATION; ENERGY INTAKE; FEMALE; HYDROCORTISONE; LACTATION; MALE; MENSTRUAL CYCLE; PAN TROGLODYTES; PREGNANCY; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; UGANDA;

EID: 77955267581     PISSN: 0018506X     EISSN: 10956867     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.yhbeh.2010.05.009     Document Type: Article

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