Male mating behaviour in relation to female sexual swellings, socio-sexual behaviour and hormonal changes in wild Barbary macaques

Hormones and Behavior

Volumn 63, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 32-39

  Young, Christopher ^a   Majolo, Bonaventura ^b   Heistermann, Michael ^c   Schülke, Oliver ^a   Ostner, Julia ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LINCOLN   (United Kingdom)

^c GERMAN PRIMATE CENTER   (Germany)

Author keywords

Barbary macaque; Macaca sylvanus; Male reproductive strategies; Paternity confusion; Post conception mating; Progestogens; Sexual swellings

Indexed keywords

GESTAGEN; HORMONE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONCEPTION; COPULATION; FEMALE; FERTILITY; MACACA; MACACA SYLVANUS; MALE; MATING; NONHUMAN; OVULATION; PREGNANCY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; VOCALIZATION;

ANIMALS; COPULATION; FEMALE; FERTILIZATION; MACACA; MALE; MENSTRUAL CYCLE; PREGNANCY; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; SOCIAL DOMINANCE;

EID: 84871939164     PISSN: 0018506X     EISSN: 10956867     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.yhbeh.2012.11.004     Document Type: Article

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