Scratching around stress: Hierarchy and reconciliation make the difference in wild brown lemurs (Eulemur fulvus)

Stress

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 93-97

  Palagi, Elisabetta ^a,b   Norscia, Ivan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PISA   (Italy)

^b INSTITUTE OF COGNITIVE SCIENCES AND TECHNOLOGIES   (Italy)

Author keywords

Aggression; Eulemur fulvus; lemurs; predation; ranking position; self directed behaviours

Indexed keywords

HYDROCORTISONE;

AGGRESSION; ARTICLE; CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK; CONFLICT; CONTROLLED STUDY; EULEMUR FULVUS; FEMALE; FOREST; HAWK; HOMEOSTASIS; HYDROCORTISONE BLOOD LEVEL; MADAGASCAR; MALE; NONHUMAN; POLYBOROIDES RADIATUS; PREDATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSIMIAN; SCRATCHING; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL NETWORK; STRESS; TIME; VALIDITY; WEATHER;

AGGRESSION; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, WILD; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; LEMUR; MOTOR ACTIVITY; PREDATORY BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL DOMINANCE;

EID: 78650387406     PISSN: 10253890     EISSN: 16078888     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3109/10253890.2010.505272     Document Type: Article

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