Territoriality, tolerance and testosterone in wild chimpanzees

Animal Behaviour

Volumn 84, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 1469-1474

  Sobolewski, Marissa E ^a   Brown, Janine L ^b   Mitani, John C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^b SMITHSONIAN CONSERVATION BIOLOGY INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Aggression challenge hypothesis; Chimpanzee; Pan troglodytes; Territorial behaviour; Testosterone

Indexed keywords

AGGRESSION; FITNESS; HYPOTHESIS TESTING; LIFE HISTORY TRAIT; PRIMATE; TERRITORIALITY; TESTOSTERONE; WILD POPULATION;

PAN; PAN TROGLODYTES;

EID: 84870443631     PISSN: 00033472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.anbehav.2012.09.018     Document Type: Article

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