The social interactions of adult conspecifics with an adult XY gonadal dysgenetic chacma baboon (Papio ursinus) |
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Authors: | C Bielert |
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Institution: | Primate Behaviour Research Group and School of Psychology, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg 2001, South Africa |
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Abstract: | Two separate behavioral studies on an XY gonadal dysgenetic chacma baboon were carried out. In the first experiment the focal subject was treated identically as the control females by her adult male test partners. In contrast to the controls in this experiment the dysgenetic animal reciprocated the agonistic behaviors directed by the males toward her. In the second study intact and castrated males as well as ovariectomized females served as controls for the dysgenetic subject in tests with ovariectomized adult females. The stimulus females presented more to both classes of males than either the subject females or the gonadal dysgenetic individual, suggesting that the focal subject was treated by other female conspecifics as a female. |
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