Age-dependent changes in sexual skin colour and associated phenomena of female gelada baboons

Data are presented which show that changes in the colour of the paracallosal skin of female gelada baboons (Theropithecus gelada) are age-dependent. Variations in the quality and dispersion of the fluidfilled vesicles that border the female's chest patch during oestrus are also shown to be age-...

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Main Author: Dunbar, RIM
Format: Journal article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 1977