Development of sexual and socio-sexual behaviours in free-ranging juvenile male Japanese macaques, Macaca fuscata

Behaviour

Volumn 150, Issue 11, 2013, Pages 1225-1254

  Leca, Jean Baptiste ^a   Gunst, Noëlle ^a   Vasey, Paul L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LETHBRIDGE   (Canada)

Author keywords

development; juveniles; mounting; needing to learn hypothesis; primates; sexual solicitation

Indexed keywords

EID: 84893151217     PISSN: 00057959     EISSN: 1568539X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1163/1568539X-00003088     Document Type: Article

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