Dung as a potential medium for inter-sexual chemical signaling in Asian elephants (Elephas maximus)

Behavioural Processes

Volumn 91, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 15-21

  Ghosal, Ratna ^a   Seshagiri, P B ^a   Sukumar, R ^a  

^a INDIAN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (India)

Author keywords

Asian elephant; Check; Cyclicity; Place; Reproduction; Sniff

Indexed keywords

SEX PHEROMONE;

BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY; BIOASSAY; CAPTIVE POPULATION; CHEMICAL CUE; COMMUNICATION BEHAVIOR; ELEPHANT; PHEROMONE; REPRODUCTION; REPRODUCTIVE CYCLE; REPRODUCTIVE STATUS; ZOO;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BIOASSAY; CLINICAL TRIAL (TOPIC); CONTROLLED STUDY; DOUBLE BLIND PROCEDURE; DUNG; ELEPHANT; ELEPHAS MAXIMUS; ESTRUS CYCLE; FECES; FEMALE; FOLLICULAR PHASE; HORMONE DETERMINATION; HORMONE RELEASE; INTERSEXUAL CHEMICAL SIGNALING; LUTEAL PHASE; MALE; MALE FEMALE COMMUNICATION; NONHUMAN; OVULATION; REPRODUCTION; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SNIFFING; ZOO ANIMAL;

ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; DOUBLE-BLIND METHOD; ELEPHANTS; ESTROUS CYCLE; FECES; FEMALE; MALE; PROGESTERONE; SEX ATTRACTANTS; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL;

ELEPHANTIDAE; ELEPHAS MAXIMUS;

EID: 84864081339     PISSN: 03766357     EISSN: 18728308     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.beproc.2012.04.010     Document Type: Article

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