Reproductive Stages
Social Organization
Mate Selection
- female choice
Sexual Behavior
Birthing
- seasonally polyestrous
Lactational amenorrhea
Ecological Zeitgehers
- short day breeders and long day breeders
when is testosterone highest?
-night time
“fatted” condition
- squirrel monkeys
scent marking
-males pee on own foot and throw over shoulder
butt swelling
- testosterone increase causes butt swelling
Social cues - study
-female injected with estrogen before mating season, males begin to be primed to prep for mating season
social cues
sexual positions
-only bonobos have sex like humans