Associations between social behaviour and adrenal activity in female Barbary macaques: Consequences of study design

General and Comparative Endocrinology

Volumn 186, Issue , 2013, Pages 72-79

  Edwards, Katie L ^a,b   Walker, Susan L ^b   Bodenham, Rebecca F ^a   Ritchie, Harald ^d   Shultz, Susanne ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL   (United Kingdom)

^b CHESTER ZOO   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

^d Thermo Fisher Scientific   (United States)

Author keywords

Agonism; Dominance; Faecal glucocorticoids; Macaca sylvanus; Social stressors

Indexed keywords

GLUCOCORTICOID;

ADRENAL GLAND; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; FECES LEVEL; FEMALE; FOREST; GROOMING; MACACA; MACACA SYLVANUS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; UNITED KINGDOM;

EID: 84875795661     PISSN: 00166480     EISSN: 10956840     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ygcen.2013.02.023     Document Type: Article

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