Life at the top: Rank and stress in wild male baboons

Science

Volumn 333, Issue 6040, 2011, Pages 357-360

  Gesquiere, Laurence R ^a   Learn, Niki H ^a   Simao, M Carolina M ^a   Onyango, Patrick O ^a   Alberts, Susan C ^b,c   Altmann, Jeanne ^a,c,d  

^a PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c INSTITUTE OF PRIMATE RESEARCH   (Kenya)

^d UNIVERSITY OF NAIROBI   (Kenya)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GLUCOCORTICOID; STRESS HORMONE; TESTOSTERONE;

DOMINANCE; HIERARCHICAL SYSTEM; LIFE HISTORY TRAIT; LONG-TERM CHANGE; MALE BEHAVIOR; PRIMATE; REPRODUCTIVE BEHAVIOR; REPRODUCTIVE COST; SAVANNA; SEX HORMONE;

ARTICLE; BABOON; MALE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPRODUCTION; SOCIAL DOMINANCE; STRESS; TESTOSTERONE BLOOD LEVEL;

AGGRESSION; ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; DOMINANCE-SUBORDINATION; FECES; FEMALE; GLUCOCORTICOIDS; HIERARCHY, SOCIAL; KENYA; MALE; PAPIO CYNOCEPHALUS; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; SOCIAL DOMINANCE; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; TESTOSTERONE;

PAPIO; PAPIO CYNOCEPHALUS;

EID: 79960518251     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: 10959203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.1207120     Document Type: Article

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