Low female stress hormone levels are predicted by same- or opposite-sex sociality depending on season in wild Assamese macaques

Psychoneuroendocrinology

Volumn 48, Issue , 2014, Pages 19-28

  Fürtbauer, Ines ^a   Heistermann, Michael ^b   Schülke, Oliver ^a   Ostner, Julia ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

^b GERMAN PRIMATE CENTER   (Germany)

Author keywords

Allostatic load; Female female sociality; Female male sociality; Life history stage; Macaca assamensis; Seasonal reproduction; Social environment; Stress physiology

Indexed keywords

GLUCOCORTICOID; STRESS HORMONE; ETIOCHOLANOLONE; HYDROCORTISONE;

ADULT; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GROOMING; LACTATION; LIFE HISTORY; MACACA; MACACA ASSAMENSIS; MATING; NONHUMAN; PARITY; PREGNANCY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEASONAL VARIATION; SOCIAL DOMINANCE; SOCIAL INTERACTION; ANIMAL; CHEMISTRY; FECES; MALE; METABOLISM; PHYSIOLOGICAL STRESS; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGY; SEASON; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT; WILD ANIMAL;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, WILD; ETIOCHOLANOLONE; FECES; FEMALE; GROOMING; HYDROCORTISONE; MACACA; MALE; SEASONS; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL DOMINANCE; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT; STRESS, PHYSIOLOGICAL;

EID: 84904917948     PISSN: 03064530     EISSN: 18733360     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.psyneuen.2014.05.022     Document Type: Article

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