Multimodal Advertisement of Pregnancy in Free-Ranging Female Japanese Macaques (Macaca fuscata).

The role of multiple sexual signals in indicating the timing of female ovulation, and discrimination of this timing by males, has been particularly well studied among primates. However the exhibition of pregnancy signals, and how such signals might modulate male post-conception mating decisions, is...

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Main Authors: Lucie Rigaill, Andrew J J MacIntosh, James P Higham, Sandra Winters, Keiko Shimizu, Keiko Mouri, Takeshi Furuichi, Cécile Garcia
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2015-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC4550261?pdf=render