Male coalitions and female behaviour affect male mating success independent of dominance rank and female receptive synchrony in wild Barbary macaques

Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology

Volumn 67, Issue 10, 2013, Pages 1665-1677

  Young, Christopher ^a   Hähndel, Sabine ^a   Majolo, Bonaventura ^b   Schülke, Oliver ^a   Ostner, Julia ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LINCOLN   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Coalition; Female mate choice; Macaca sylvanus; Mating skew; Priority of Access model; Reproductive strategies

Indexed keywords

BEHAVIORAL RESPONSE; DOMINANCE; FEMALE BEHAVIOR; FIGHTING; MALE; MATE CHOICE; MATING SUCCESS; PRIMATE; REPRODUCTIVE STRATEGY; SYNCHRONY; WILD POPULATION;

MACACA; MACACA SYLVANUS; MAMMALIA; POA; PRIMATES;

EID: 84883811579     PISSN: 03405443     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00265-013-1577-7     Document Type: Article

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