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  2. Conduct and facilitate welfare assessments and applied welfare research on captive exotic animals.
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Dominance relationships among siamang males living in multimale groups

Authors: Luca Morino

Publication/Journal: American Journal of Primatology

Keywords: flexible social system, intrasexual competition, mating success, monogamy, polyandry, reproductive skew

2016


Adaptively flexible polyandry

Authors: Patricia Adair Gowaty

Publication/Journal: Animal Behaviour

Keywords: adaptively flexible behaviour, demographic stochasticity, multiple mating, phenotypic plasticity, polyandry, sexual selection, switch point theorem, within-sex selection

2013


Extra-pair paternity confirmed in wild white-handed gibbons

Authors: Claudia Barelli, Kazunari Matsudaira, Tanja Wolf, Christian Roos, Michael Heistermann, Keith Hodges, Takafumi Ishida, Suchinda Malaivijitnond, Ulrich H. Reichard

Publication/Journal: American Journal of Primatology

Keywords: genetic paternity, gibbons, hylobates lar, monogamy, pair-living, polyandry

2013


Female crickets are driven to fight by the male courting and calling songs

Authors: Jan Rillich, Edgar Buhl, Klaus Schildberger, Paul A. Stevenson

Publication/Journal: Animal Behaviour

Keywords: aggression, agonistic behavior, agonistic behaviour, competition, cricket, gryllus campestris, polyandry, resources, sexual selection

2009


Influences of mating groups on the reproductive success of the Southern Sichuan Red Panda (Ailurus fulgens styani)

Authors: Fuwen Wei, Xiaoping Lü, Chun Li, Ming Li, Baoping Ren, Jinchu Hu

Publication/Journal: Zoo Biology

Keywords: ailurus fulgens, mating system, red panda, reproductive success

2005


Snake Mating Systems, Behavior, and Evolution: The Revisionary Implications of Recent Findings

Authors: Rivas, JA, Burghardt, GM.

Publication/Journal: Journal of Comparative Psychology

Keywords: animal, animal/physiology, animals, evolution, female, male, sexual behavior, snakes, snakes classification, snakes physiology, social behavior

2005


Female American mink, Mustela vison, mate multiply in a free-choice environment

Authors: Michael D. Thom, David W. Macdonald, Georgia J. Mason, Vivi Pedersen, Paul J. Johnson

Publication/Journal: Animal Behaviour

Keywords: mating behavior, mink

2004


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