Testosterone positively associated with both male mating effort and paternal behavior in savanna baboons (Papio cynocephalus)

Hormones and Behavior

Volumn 63, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 430-436

  Onyango, Patrick Ogola ^a   Gesquiere, Laurence R ^a   Altmann, Jeanne ^a,b,c   Alberts, Susan C ^c,d  

^a PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NAIROBI   (Kenya)

^c INSTITUTE OF PRIMATE RESEARCH   (Kenya)

^d DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Baboons; Mating effort; Paternal behavior; Testosterone

Indexed keywords

TESTOSTERONE;

AGE; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FATHER; MALE; MATING; NONHUMAN; PAPIO CYNOCEPHALUS; PATERNAL ATTITUDE; PATERNAL BEHAVIOR; PATERNITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGENY; TAXONOMIC RANK;

ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; FECES; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; PAPIO CYNOCEPHALUS; PATERNAL BEHAVIOR; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; REPRODUCTION; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; SOCIAL DOMINANCE; TESTOSTERONE;

EID: 84875053046     PISSN: 0018506X     EISSN: 10956867     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.yhbeh.2012.11.014     Document Type: Article

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