Sneak copulations in long-tailed macaques (Macaca fascicularis): No evidence for tactical deception

Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology

Volumn 67, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 101-111

  Overduin de Vries, A M ^a,b   Olesen, C U ^a,b   de Vries, H ^b   Spruijt, B M ^b   Sterck, E H M ^a,b  

^a BIOMEDICAL PRIMATE RESEARCH CENTRE   (Netherlands)

^b UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Audience effect; Macaques; Mating tactics; Monopolization; Primates; Sexual competition; Tactical deception

Indexed keywords

FEMALE BEHAVIOR; INTRASEXUAL INTERACTION; PRIMATE; SNEAK COPULATION;

MACACA; MACACA FASCICULARIS; PRIMATES;

EID: 84871856543     PISSN: 03405443     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00265-012-1430-4     Document Type: Article

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