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Female Chimpanzees Use Copulation Calls Flexibly to Prevent Social Competition

The adaptive function of copulation calls in female primates has been debated for years. One influential idea is that copulation calls are a sexually selected trait, which enables females to advertise their receptive state to males. Male-male competition ensues and females benefit by getting better...

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Autores principales: Townsend, Simon W., Deschner, Tobias, Zuberbühler, Klaus
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2008
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3278306/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22423311
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0002431