Estrogen and Progestogen Correlates of the Structure of Female Copulation Calls in Semi-Free-Ranging Barbary Macaques (Macaca sylvanus)

International Journal of Primatology

Volumn 32, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 992-1006

  Pfefferle, Dana ^a,b   Heistermann, Michael ^a   Pirow, Ralph ^a,c   Hodges, J Keith ^a   Fischer, Julia ^a  

^a GERMAN PRIMATE CENTER   (Germany)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR EVOLUTIONARY ANTHROPOLOGY   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MÜNSTER   (Germany)

Author keywords

Acoustic structure; Copulation call; Estrogen; Progesterone; Steroid hormone

Indexed keywords

COPULATION; CORRELATION; PRIMATE; SEX HORMONE; STEROID; VOCALIZATION;

FRANCE; GIBRALTAR;

MACACA; MACACA SYLVANUS; PRIMATES;

EID: 79960457137     PISSN: 01640291     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10764-011-9517-8     Document Type: Article

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