Sexual signalling in propithecus verreauxi: Male "chest badge" and female mate choice

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 5, 2012, Pages

  Dall'Olio, Stefania ^a,b   Norscia, Ivan ^a   Antonacci, Daniela ^a   Palagi, Elisabetta ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PISA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FLORENCE   (Italy)

^c INSTITUTE OF COGNITIVE SCIENCES AND TECHNOLOGIES   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL TRAIT; CHEST BADGE; CONTROLLED STUDY; COPULATION; CORRELATIONAL STUDY; FEMALE; GROOMING; MALE; MATE CHOICE; MATING; MATING SUCCESS; NONHUMAN; ODOR; PROPITHECUS VERREAUXI; PROSIMIAN; SIGNAL DETECTION; ANIMAL; DECISION MAKING; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL DOMINANCE; THORAX;

ANIMALIA; PROPITHECUS; PROPITHECUS VERREAUXI;

ANIMALS; CHOICE BEHAVIOR; COPULATION; FEMALE; GROOMING; MALE; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; SOCIAL DOMINANCE; STREPSIRHINI; THORAX;

EID: 84861217446     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0037332     Document Type: Article

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