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A case study: fecal corticosteroid and behavior as indicators of welfare during relocation of an Asian elephant

scientific article

Age, but not anthelmintic treatment, is associated with urinary neopterin levels in semi-free ranging Barbary macaques

scientific article published on 03 February 2017

Androgen and glucocorticoid levels reflect seasonally occurring social challenges in male redfronted lemurs (Eulemur fulvus rufus)

scientific article (publication date: February 2008)

Androgen correlates of male reproductive effort in wild male long-tailed macaques (Macaca fascicularis): A multi-level test of the challenge hypothesis

scientific article published on 14 January 2015

Assessing female reproductive status of spectral tarsier (Tarsius tarsier) using fecal steroid hormone metabolite analysis

scientific article published on 17 September 2018

Assessing the drivers of gut microbiome composition in wild redfronted lemurs via longitudinal metacommunity analysis

scientific article published in 2022

Assessment of testicular endocrine function in captive African elephants by measurement of urinary and fecal androgens

scholarly article by Andre Ganswindt et al published 2002 in Zoo Biology

Baboon sexual swellings: information content of size and color

scientific article

Behavioral and physiological responses to fruit availability of spider monkeys ranging in a small forest fragment

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Brief communication: Fecal androgen excretion and fetal sex effects during gestation in wild Assamese macaques (Macaca assamensis).

scientific article published on 20 December 2011

Brief communication: female fecal androgens prior to the mating season reflect readiness to conceive in reproductively quiescent wild macaques

scientific article

Cell-Mediated Immune Ontogeny Is Affected by Sex but Not Environmental Context in a Long-Lived Primate Species

scientific article published in 2021

Certain aspects of bonobo female sexual repertoire are related to urinary testosterone metabolite levels

scientific article published in January 2005

Coat condition, housing condition and measurement of faecal cortisol metabolites--a non-invasive study about alopecia in captive rhesus macaques (Macaca mulatta).

scientific article published in February 2006

Collective action reduces androgen responsiveness with implications for shoaling dynamics in stickleback fish

scientific article published on 11 December 2019

Color signal information content and the eye of the beholder: a case study in the rhesus macaque

scientific article

Comparison of fecal preservation and extraction methods for steroid hormone metabolite analysis in wild crested macaques

scientific article published on 10 February 2018

Concealed fertility and extended female sexuality in a non-human primate (Macaca assamensis)

scientific article

Cortisol coregulation in fish

scientific article published on 26 July 2016

Cost of dispersal in a social mammal: body mass loss and increased stress

scientific article published on 01 February 2019

Costs of and Investment in Mate-Guarding in Wild Long-Tailed Macaques (Macaca fascicularis): Influences of Female Characteristics and Male-Female Social Bonds

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Costs of mate-guarding in wild male long-tailed macaques (Macaca fascicularis): physiological stress and aggression

scientific article

Cues to androgens and quality in male gibbon songs

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Developmental and family history-based analysis of congenital fused labia phenotype in the captive common marmoset (Callithrix jacchus)

scientific article published on 23 October 2018

Diurnal variation of salivary cortisol in captive African elephants (Loxodonta africana) under routine management conditions and in relation to a translocation event

scientific article published on 05 March 2020

Do Women's Voices Provide Cues of the Likelihood of Ovulation? The Importance of Sampling Regime ⬇️

scientific article published on September 21, 2011

Do males time their mate-guarding effort with the fertile phase in order to secure fertilisation in Cayo Santiago rhesus macaques? ⬇️

scientific article published on March 17, 2012

Do sexual calls in female black capuchin monkeys (Sapajus nigritus) vary with fertility? An acoustic analysis

scientific article published on 01 September 2018

Dominance, aggression and physiological stress in wild male Assamese macaques (Macaca assamensis).

scientific article

Drivers of gut microbiome variation within and between groups of a wild Malagasy primate

scientific article published on 09 February 2022

Dynamics and determinants of glucocorticoid metabolite concentrations in wild Verreaux's sifakas

scientific article published on 21 April 2020

Effects of logging, hunting, and forest fragment size on physiological stress levels of two sympatric ateline primates in Colombia

scientific article

Effects of social status and stress on patterns of gastrointestinal parasitism in wild white-handed gibbons (Hylobates lar).

scientific article published on 26 February 2013

Endocrine characterization of female reproductive status in wild redfronted lemurs (Eulemur fulvus rufus) ⬇️

scientific article published on May 1, 2003

Endocrine correlates of musth and the impact of ecological and social factors in free-ranging African elephants (Loxodonta africana).

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Endocrinological correlates of male bimaturism in wild Bornean orangutans

scientific article published on 31 July 2015

Energetics at the urban edge: Environmental and individual predictors of urinary C-peptide levels in wild chacma baboons (Papio ursinus)

scientific article published on 26 August 2020

Energy balance but not competitive environment corresponds with allostatic load during development in an Old World monkey

retracted scientific article published on 04 January 2019

Energy balance but not competitive environment corresponds with allostatic load during development in an Old World monkey

scientific article published on 08 January 2020

Estrogen and Progestogen Correlates of the Structure of Female Copulation Calls in Semi-Free-Ranging Barbary Macaques (Macaca sylvanus)

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Evaluating capture stress in wild gray mouse lemurs via repeated fecal sampling: method validation and the influence of prior experience and handling protocols on stress responses

scientific article published on 5 November 2013

Evaluating noninvasive markers of nonhuman primate immune activation and inflammation

scientific article

Extra-pair paternity confirmed in wild white-handed gibbons.

scientific article published on 22 July 2013

Familiarity affects the assessment of female facial signals of fertility by free-ranging male rhesus macaques.

scientific article published on 6 April 2011

Fecal Glucocorticoid Measurements and Their Relation to Rearing, Behavior, and Environmental Factors in the Population of Pileated Gibbons (Hylobates pileatus) Held in European Zoos

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Female Barbary macaque (Macaca sylvanus) copulation calls do not reveal the fertile phase but influence mating outcome

scientific article published in March 2008

Female behavioral proceptivity functions as a probabilistic signal of fertility, not female quality, in a New World primate

scientific article published on 16 July 2015

Female ovarian cycle phase affects the timing of male sexual activity in free-ranging Barbary macaques (Macaca sylvanus) of Gibraltar

scientific article published in January 2008

Female reproductive signaling, and male mating behavior, in the olive baboon

scientific article

Female sexual behavior and sexual swelling size as potential cues for males to discern the female fertile phase in free-ranging Barbary macaques (Macaca sylvanus) of Gibraltar

scientific article

Female sexual behavior, but not sex skin swelling, reliably indicates the timing of the fertile phase in wild long-tailed macaques (Macaca fascicularis).

scientific article published on 19 December 2004

Female sexual swelling size, timing of ovulation, and male behavior in wild West African chimpanzees

scientific article

Fertility status, dominance, and scent marking behavior of family-housed female cotton-top tamarins (Saguinus oedipus) in absence of their mothers

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Generation and Breeding of EGFP-Transgenic Marmoset Monkeys: Cell Chimerism and Implications for Disease Modeling

scientific article published in 2021

Grooming in Barbary macaques: better to give than to receive?

scientific article published on June 2007

Group size and visitor numbers predict faecal glucocorticoid concentrations in zoo meerkats

scientific article

Habitat degradation and seasonality affect physiological stress levels of Eulemur collaris in littoral forest fragments

scientific article

Host intrinsic determinants and potential consequences of parasite infection in free-ranging red-fronted lemurs (Eulemur fulvus rufus).

scientific article published on July 2010

Immune function and HPA axis activity in free-ranging rhesus macaques ⬇️

scientific article published on May 27, 2011

Impact of stress on the gut microbiome of free-ranging western lowland gorillas

scientific article

Impacts of tourism on anxiety and physiological stress levels in wild male Barbary macaques

Individual Facial Coloration in Male Eulemur fulvus rufus: A Condition-dependent Ornament?

scientific article published on 02 October 2009

Influence of reproductive season and rank on fecal glucocorticoid levels in free-ranging male Verreaux's sifakas (Propithecus verreauxi).

scientific article published on 21 March 2007

Information content of female copulation calls in wild long-tailed macaques (Macaca fascicularis).

scientific article

Intersexual dominance, masculinized genitals and prenatal steroids: comparative data from lemurid primates

scientific article published on 08 February 2003

Is social dispersal stressful? A study in male crested macaques (Macaca nigra).

scientific article

Long-Term Oocyte-Like Cell Development in Cultures Derived from Neonatal Marmoset Monkey Ovary

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

scientific article published on 6 June 2014

Low rank and primiparity increase fecal glucocorticoid metabolites across gestation in wild geladas

scientific article published on 22 April 2020

Male competition and its hormonal correlates in Assamese macaques (Macaca assamensis) ⬇️

scientific article published on November 4, 2010

Male mating behaviour in relation to female sexual swellings, socio-sexual behaviour and hormonal changes in wild Barbary macaques.

scientific article published on 10 November 2012

Male resource defense mating system in primates? An experimental test in wild capuchin monkeys.

scientific article published on 22 May 2018

Mate-guarding constrains feeding activity but not energetic status of wild male long-tailed macaques (Macaca fascicularis).

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Measuring urinary cortisol and testosterone levels in male Barbary macaques: A comparison of EIA and LC-MS

scientific article published on 27 May 2019

Meerkat close calling patterns are linked to sex, social category, season and wind, but not fecal glucocorticoid metabolite concentrations

scientific article

Methodological Considerations in the Analysis of Fecal Glucocorticoid Metabolites in Tufted Capuchins (Cebus apella)

scientific article (publication date: 2013)

Non-invasive monitoring of physiological stress in the Western lowland gorilla (Gorilla gorilla gorilla): validation of a fecal glucocorticoid assay and methods for practical application in the field

scientific article published on 19 August 2012

Performance of Marmoset Monkeys as Embryo Donors Is Reflected by Different Stress-Related Parameters

scientific article published in 2022

Personality, plasticity and predation: linking endocrine and behavioural reaction norms in stickleback fish

scholarly article by Ines Fürtbauer et al published 13 January 2015 in Functional Ecology

Physical, physiological, and behavioral correlates of musth in captive African elephants (Loxodonta africana).

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Physiological and behavioural responses to weaning conflict in free-ranging primate infants

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Physiological stress hormone levels and mating behaviour are negatively correlated in male rhesus macaques (Macaca mulatta)

scientific article published in 2013

Physiological stress levels in the endemic and endangered Udzungwa red colobus vary with elevation

journal article; published in African Zoology in 2015

Post-conception mating in wild long-tailed macaques (Macaca fascicularis): characterization, endocrine correlates and functional significance.

scientific article published on 4 August 2006

Prenatal stress accelerates offspring growth to compensate for reduced maternal investment across mammals

scientific article published on 27 November 2017

Prenatal stress effects in a wild, long-lived primate: predictive adaptive responses in an unpredictable environment

scientific article

Rates of self-directed behaviour and faecal glucocorticoid levels are not correlated in female wild olive baboons (Papio hamadryas anubis).

scientific article published in November 2009

Reduced reproductive function in wild baboons (Papio hamadryas anubis) related to natural consumption of the African black plum (Vitex doniana).

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Reproductive and Life History Parameters of Wild Female Macaca assamensis

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Responses to social and environmental stress are attenuated by strong male bonds in wild macaques

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Retraction notice to "Energy balance but not competitive environment corresponds with allostatic load during development in an Old World monkey" [Horm. Behav. 108 (2019) 30-41]

scientific article published on 28 January 2020

Seasonal and inter-individual variation in testosterone levels in badgers Meles meles: evidence for the existence of two endocrinological phenotypes

scientific article published on 8 August 2009

Sexual Skin Color Contains Information About the Timing of the Fertile Phase in Free-ranging Macaca mulatta

article by Constance Dubuc et al published 19 August 2009 in International Journal of Primatology

Sexual signalling in female crested macaques and the evolution of primate fertility signals

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Sexual swellings in wild white-handed gibbon females (Hylobates lar) indicate the probability of ovulation

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Signaling in multiple modalities in male rhesus macaques: sex skin coloration and barks in relation to androgen levels, social status, and mating behavior

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Signals of female reproductive quality and fertility in colony-living baboons (Papio h. anubis) in relation to ensuring paternal investment

scientific article published in July 2009

Social behavior and patterns of testosterone and glucocorticoid levels differ between male chacma and Guinea baboons

scientific article published on 4 September 2015

Social parameters and urinary testosterone level in male chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes).

scientific article published in November 2004

Species-specific patterns in fecal glucocorticoid and androgen levels in zoo-living orangutans (Pongo spp.).

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Subtypes of aggression and their relation to anxiety in Barbary macaques

scientific article published on 14 October 2018

Tailored Enrichment Strategies and Stereotypic Behavior in Captive Individually Housed Macaques (Macaca spp.).

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Testing the priority-of-access model in a seasonally breeding primate species ⬇️

scientific article published on March 25, 2011

Testosterone and cortisol are negatively associated with ritualized bonding behavior in male macaques

scientific article published on 11 June 2020

The cost of associating with males for Bornean and Sumatran female orangutans: a hidden form of sexual conflict?

scientific article published on 30 December 2020

The development of individual differences in cooperative behaviour: maternal glucocorticoid hormones alter helping behaviour of offspring in wild meerkats

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The development of individual differences in cooperative behaviour: maternal glucocorticoid hormones alter helping behaviour of offspring in wild meerkats

scientific article published on 01 April 2019

The endocrinology of male rhesus macaque social and reproductive status: a test of the challenge and social stress hypotheses ⬇️

scientific article (publication date: 2013)

The influence of stress hormones and aggression on cooperative behaviour in subordinate meerkats.

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The sexually active states of free-ranging male African elephants (Loxodonta africana): defining musth and non-musth using endocrinology, physical signals, and behavior

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The stress of growing old: sex- and season-specific effects of age on allostatic load in wild grey mouse lemurs

scientific article published on 07 April 2015

The timing of ovulation with respect to sexual swelling detumescence in wild olive baboons

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Timing and probability of ovulation in relation to sex skin swelling in wild West African chimpanzees, Pan troglodytes verus

Triiodothyronine and cortisol levels in the face of energetic challenges from reproduction, thermoregulation and food intake in female macaques

scientific article published in 2021

Urinary C-Peptide Measurement as a Marker of Nutritional Status in Macaques ⬇️

scientific article published on March 30, 2011

Urinary C-peptide of insulin as a non-invasive marker of nutritional status: some practicalities

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Urinary Testosterone Metabolite Levels in Bonobos: A Comparison with Chimpanzees in Relation to Social System

Urinary neopterin, a non-invasive marker of mammalian cellular immune activation, is highly stable under field conditions

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Urinary suPAR: a non-invasive biomarker of infection and tissue inflammation for use in studies of large free-ranging mammals

scientific article published on 12 February 2020

Urinary testosterone metabolite levels in captive bonobos: relationship with age.

scientific article published in March 2004

Urinary testosterone-metabolite levels and dominance rank in male and female bonobos (Pan paniscus).

scientific article published on 20 December 2003

Validation of a Fecal Glucocorticoid Assay to Assess Adrenocortical Activity in Meerkats Using Physiological and Biological Stimuli

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Validation of a Novel Collection Device for Non-Invasive Urine Sampling from Free-Ranging Animals

scientific article published on 4 November 2015

Validation of a field-friendly extraction and storage method to monitor fecal steroid metabolites in wild orangutans

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Validation of an enzyme immunoassay for assessing adrenocortical activity and evaluation of factors that affect levels of fecal glucocorticoid metabolites in two New World primates

scientific article published on 23 May 2013

You mate, I mate: macaque females synchronize sex not cycles

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