Copulation patterns in captive hamadryas baboons: A quantitative analysis

Primates

Volumn 52, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 373-383

  Nitsch, Florian ^a,b   Stueckle, Sabine ^a,d   Stahl, Daniel ^c   Zinner, Dietmar ^a  

^a GERMAN PRIMATE CENTER   (Germany)

^b BIELEFELD UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^c KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Akaike's Information Criterion; Copulation pattern; Papio hamadryas; Sexual behaviour

Indexed keywords

AGGRESSION; COPULATION; NUMERICAL MODEL; PRIMATE; PROBABILITY; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; REPRODUCTION; REPRODUCTIVE STRATEGY; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; COPULATION; EJACULATION; FEMALE; MALE; OVULATION; PAPIO HAMADRYAS; PHYSIOLOGY;

ANIMALS; COPULATION; EJACULATION; FEMALE; MALE; OVULATION; PAPIO HAMADRYAS;

OMUS; PAPIO; PAPIO HAMADRYAS; PRIMATES; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 80053913026     PISSN: 00328332     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10329-011-0258-2     Document Type: Article

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