Differential changes in steroid hormones before competition in bonobos and chimpanzees

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 107, Issue 28, 2010, Pages 12457-12462

  Wobber, Victoria ^a   Hare, Brian ^b   Maboto, Jean ^c   Lipson, Susan ^a   Wrangham, Richard ^a   Ellison, Peter T ^a  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c Tchimpounga Chimpanzee Sanctuary ^*  (Congo)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HYDROCORTISONE; STEROID HORMONE; TESTOSTERONE;

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CHIMPANZEE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOMINANCE BEHAVIOR; EVOLUTION; FEMALE; INTRASPECIFIC COMPETITION; MALE; NONHUMAN; PAN PANISCUS; PERCEPTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPECIES DOMINANCE;

AGGRESSION; ANIMALS; EVOLUTION; FOOD; HOMINIDAE; HORMONES; MALE; PAN PANISCUS; PAN TROGLODYTES; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; STEROIDS;

PAN; PAN PANISCUS; PAN TROGLODYTES;

EID: 77955449798     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1007411107     Document Type: Article

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