Relationship between ovarian cycle phase and sexual behavior in female Japanese macaques (Macaca fuscata)

American Journal of Physical Anthropology

Volumn 125, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 352-362

  O'Neill, Ann C ^a   Fedigan, Linda M ^b   Ziegler, Toni E ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN   (United States)

Author keywords

Attractivity; Fecal steroids; Macaques; Ovarian hormones; Proceptivity

Indexed keywords

ESTROGEN; ESTRONE GLUCURONIDE; GESTAGEN; GLUCURONIDE; PREGNANEDIOL; STEROID;

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; COPULATION; ENZYME IMMUNOASSAY; FECES ANALYSIS; FEMALE; FOLLICULAR PHASE; GROOMING; HORMONE ACTION; HORMONE DETERMINATION; HORMONE RELEASE; LUTEAL PHASE; MACACA; MATING; NONHUMAN; OVARY CYCLE; OVULATION; PERIODICITY; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR;

ANIMALS; CHROMATOGRAPHY, HIGH PRESSURE LIQUID; ESTRONE; FECES; FEMALE; MACACA; MENSTRUAL CYCLE; OBSERVATION; PREGNANEDIOL; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL;

EID: 8844283325     PISSN: 00029483     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ajpa.20024     Document Type: Article

References (55)

1. Baum MJ. 1983. Hormonal modulation of sexual behavior in female primates. Bioscience 33:578-582.
2. Baum MJ, Keverne EB, Everitt BJ, Herbert J, DeGreef WJ. 1977. Effects of progesterone and estradiol on sexual attractivity of female rhesus monkeys. Physiol Behav 18:659-670.
3. Beach FA. 1942. Importance of progesterone to induction of sexual receptivity in spayed female rats. Proc Soc Exp Biol Med 51:369-371.
4. Beach FA. 1976. Sexual attractivity, proceptivity and receptivity in female mammals. Horm Behav 7:105-138.
5. Bercovitch FB, Goy RW. 1990. The socioendocrinology of reproductive development and reproductive success in Japanese macaques. In: Ziegler TE, Bercovitch FB, editors. Socioendocrinology of primate reproduction. New York: Wiley-Liss, Inc. p 59-93.
6. Brockman DK, Whitten PL, Russell E, Richard AF, Izard MK. 1995. Application of fecal steroid techniques to the reproductive endocrinology of female Verreaux's sifaka (Propithecus verreauxi). Am J Primatol 36:313-325.
7. Carlson AA, Ginther AJ, Scheffler GR, Snowdon CT. 1996. The effects of infant births on the sociosexual behavior and hormonal patterns of a cooperatively breeding primate (Cebuella pygmaea). Am J Primatol 40:23-39.
8. Chambers KC, Phoenix CH. 1987. Differences among ovariectomized female rhesus macaques in the display of sexual behavior without and with estradiol treatment. Behav Neurosci 101:303-308.
9. Cochran CG. 1979. Proceptive patterns of behavior throughout the menstrual cycle in rhesus monkeys. Behav Neural Biol 27:342-353.
10. Dixson AF. 1998. Primate sexuality: comparative studies of the prosimians, monkeys, apes, and human beings. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
11. Dixson AF, Everitt BJ, Herbert J, Rugman SM, Scruton DM. 1973. Hormonal and other determinants of sexual attractiveness and receptivity in rhesus and talapoin monkeys. In: Phoenix CH, editor. Symposia of the Fourth International Congress of Primatology, volume 2: primate reproductive behavior. Phoenix: S. Karger. p 36-63.
12. Enomoto T. 1981. Male aggression and the sexual behavior of Japanese monkeys. Primates 22:15-23.
13. Enomoto T, Seiki K, Haruki Y. 1979. On the correlation between sexual behavior and ovarian hormone level during the menstrual cycle in captive Japanese monkeys. Primates 20:563-570.
14. Espey LL, Lipner H. 1994. Ovulation. In: Knobil E, Neill JD, editors. The physiology of reproduction. New York: Raven Press, Ltd. p 725-780.
15. Fedigan LM. 1992. Primate paradigms: sex roles and social bonds. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
16. Fedigan LM, Asquith PJ, editors. 1991. The monkeys of Arashiyama. Thirty-five years of research in Japan and the West. Albany: SUNY Press.
17. Fedigan LM, Gouzoules H. 1978. The consort relationship in a troop of Japanese monkeys. In: Chivers DJ, Herbert J, editors. Recent advances in primatology, volume 1: behaviour. New York: Academic Press. p 493-495.
18. Fedigan LM, Griffin L. 1996. Determinants of reproductive seasonality in the Arashiyama West Japanese macaques. In: Fa JA, Lindburg DG, editors. Evolution and ecology of macaque societies. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. p 369-388.
19. Fedigan LM, Pavelka MSM. 2001. Is there adaptive value to reproductive termination in Japanese macaques? A test of maternal investment hypotheses. Int J Primatol 22:109-125.
20. Fedigan LM, Fedigan L, Gouzoules H, Gouzoules S, Koyama N. 1986. Lifetime reproductive success in female Japanese macaques. Folia Primatol (Basel) 47:143-157.
21. Fujita S, Mitsunaga F, Sugiura H, Shimizu K. 2001. Measurement of urinary and fecal steroid metabolites during the ovarian cycle in captive and wild Japanese macaques, Macaca fuscata. Am J Primatol 53:167-176.
22. Gordon TP, Gust DA, Busse CD, Wilson ME. 1991. Hormones and sexual behavior associated with postconception perineal swelling in the sooty mangabey (Cercocebus torquatus atys). Int J Primatol 12:585-597.
23. Herbert J. 1970. Hormones and reproductive behavior in rhesus and talapoin monkeys. J Reprod Fertil [Suppl] 11:119-140.
24. Hodges JK. 1987. The ovarian cycle and control of ovulation. J Zool 213:383-393.
25. Huffman MA. 1991. Mate selection and partner preferences in female Japanese macaques. In: Fedigan LM, Asquith PJ, editors. The monkeys of Arashiyama: thirty-five years of research in Japan and the West. Albany: SUNY Press. p 101-122.
26. Johnson DF, Phoenix CH. 1976. Hormonal control of female sexual attractiveness, proceptivity, and receptivity in rhesus monkeys. J Comp Physiol Psychol 90:473-483.
27. Johnson DF, Phoenix CH. 1978. Sexual behavior and hormone levels during the menstrual cycles of rhesus monkeys. Horm Behav 11:160-174.
28. Linn GS, Mase D, Lafrancois D, O'Keeffe RT, Lifshitz K. 1995. Social and menstrual cycle phase influences on the behavior of group-housed Cebus apella. Am J Primatol 35:41-57.
29. Loy JD. 1981. The reproductive and heterosexual behaviors of adult patas monkeys in captivity. Anim Behav 29:714-726.
30. Manson JH. 1997. Primate consortships. Curr Anthropol 38:353-374.
31. Michael RP, Welegalla J. 1968. Ovarian hormones and the sexual behavior of the female rhesus monkey (Macaca mulatta) under laboratory conditions. J Endocrinol 41:407-420.
32. Michael RP, Zumpe D. 1993. A review of hormonal factors influencing the sexual and aggressive behavior of macaques. Am J Primatol 30:213-341.
33. Michael RP, Saayman G, Zumpe D. 1968. The suppression of mounting behavior and ejaculation in male rhesus monkeys (Macaca mulatta) by administration of progesterones to their female partners. J Endocrinol 41:421.
34. Murray RD, Bour ES, Smith EO. 1985. Female menstrual cyclicity and sexual behavior in stumptail macaques (Macaca arctoides). Int J Primatol 6:101-113.
35. Nigi H. 1975. Menstrual cycle and some other related aspects of Japanese monkeys (Macaca fuscata). Primates 16:207-216.
36. Nigi H. 1976. Some aspects related to conception of the Japanese monkey (Macaca fuscata). Primates 17:81-87.
37. Oshima K, Hayashi M, Matsubayashi K. 1977. Progesterone levels in the Japanese monkey (Macaca fuscata fuscata) during the breeding and nonbreeding season and pregnancy. Med Primatol 6:99-107.
38. Pavelka MSM. 1993. Monkeys of the mesquite: the social life of the South Texas snow monkey. Dubuque, Iowa: Kendall/Hunt Publishing Co.
39. Saayman GS. 1970. The menstrual cycles and sexual behavior in a troop of free-ranging chacma baboons (Papio ursinus). Folia Primatol (Basel) 12:81-110.
40. Shideler SE, Savage A, Ortuno AM, Moorman EA, Lasley BL. 1994. Monitoring female reproductive function by measurement of fecal estrogen and progesterone metabolites in the white-faced saki (Pithecia pithecia). Am J Primatol 32:95-108.
41. Soltis J, Mitsunga F, Shimizu K, Yanagihara Y, Nazaki M. 1999. Female mating strategy in an enclosed group of Japanese macaques. Am J Primatol 47:263-278.
42. Strier KB, Ziegler TE. 1997. Brief report: behavioral and endocrine characteristics of the reproductive cycle in wild muriquis monkeys, Brachyteles arachnoides. Am J Primatol 42:299-310.
43. Strier KB, Ziegler TE, Wittwer DJ. 1999. Seasonal and social correlates of fecal testosterone and cortisol levels in wild male muriquis (Brachyteles arachnoides). Horm Behav 35:125-134.
44. Trimble MR, Herbert J. 1968. The effects of testosterone or oestradiol upon the sexual and associated behavior of the adult rhesus monkey. J Endocrinol 42:171-185.
45. Wallen K, Tannenbaum PL. 1997. Hormonal modulation of sexual behavior and affiliation in rhesus monkeys. Ann NY Acad Sci 807:185-202.
46. Wallen K, Winston L, Gaventa L, Davis-DaSilva M, Collins DC. 1984. Periovulatory changes in female sexual behavior and patterns of steroid secretion in group-living rhesus monkeys. Horm Behav 18:431-450.
47. Wasser SK. 1994. Reproductive function in wild baboons measured by fecal steroids: implications for biomedicine and conservation [abstract]. Am J Primatol 33:247-248.
48. Wolfe L. 1979. Behavioral patterns of estrus females of the Arashiyama West troop of Japanese macaques. Primates 20:525-534.
49. Yoshida T, Matsumuro M, Miyamoto S, Muroyama Y, Tashiro Y, Takenoshita Y, Sankai T. 2001. Monitoring the reproductive status of Japanese monkeys (Macaca fuscata) by measurement of steroid hormones in fecal samples. Primates 42:367-373.
50. Zehr JL, Maestripieri D, Wallen K. 1998. Estradiol increases female sexual initiation independent of male responsiveness in rhesus monkeys. Horm Behav 33:95-103.
51. Ziegler TE, Sholl SA, Scheffler G, Haggerty MA, Lasley BL. 1989. Excretion of estrone, estradiol, and progesterone in the urine and feces of the female cotton-top tamarin (Saguinus oedipus oedipus). Am J Primatol 17:185-195.
52. Ziegler TE, Scheffler G, Wittwer DJ, Schultz-Darken N, Snowdon CT, Abbott DH. 1996. Metabolism of reproductive steroids during the ovarian cycle in two species of callitrichids, Saguinus oedipus and Callithrix jacchus, and estimation of the ovulatory period from fecal steroids. Biol Reprod 54:91-99.
53. Ziegler TE, Santos CV, Pissinatti A, Strier KB. 1997. Steroid excretion during the ovarian cycle in captive and wild muriquis, Brachyteles arachnoides. Am J Primatol 42:311-321.
54. Ziegler T, Hodges K, Winkler P, Heistermann M. 2000. Hormonal correlates of reproductive seasonality in wild female hanuman langurs (Presbytis entellus). Am J Primatol 51:119-134.
55. Zucker EL, Clarke MR, Harrison RM. 1995. Fecal estradiol values for group-living cycling, pregnant, and lactating female howling monkeys (Alouatta palliata) in Costa Rica [abstract]. Am J Primatol 36:167.