The Structure of Bonobo Copulation Calls During Reproductive and Non-Reproductive Sex

Ethology

Volumn 117, Issue 12, 2011, Pages 1158-1169

  Clay, Zanna ^a,b   Zuberbühler, Klaus ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS   (United Kingdom)

^b EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CALLING BEHAVIOR; COPULATION; HOMINID; REPRODUCTIVE SUCCESS; SIGNAL;

HOMINIDAE; PAN PANISCUS; PRIMATES;

EID: 80055011899     PISSN: 01791613     EISSN: 14390310     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1439-0310.2011.01975.x     Document Type: Article

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