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Anogenital distance as a measure of male competitive ability in Rwenzori Angolan colobus by Teichroeb, Julie A.; Stead, Samantha M.; Edwards, Phoebe D.; Landry, Florence; Palme, Rupert; Boonstra, Rudy is a Psychology article available to read on EtoBox.
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Anogenital distance (AGD) is positively correlated to fetal androgen exposure and developmental masculinization in mammals. Independent of overall body size, AGD shows a strong positive correlation with male fertility and in rodents, AGD is a good indicator of male competitive ability and is associated with female choice. We hypothesized that AGD will also predict male competitive ability in non-human primates. To test this, we measured AGD noninvasively with a parallel laser in a wild population of Angolan colobus monkeys (Colobus angolensis ruwenzorii) in Uganda and correlated to it to their social structure. C. angolensis ruwenzorii form a multilevel society with both one-male/multifemale units (OMUs) and multimale/multifemale units (MMUs). We compared AGD in males from five OMUs and six MMUs and related it to their fecal androgen metabolite concentrations, dominance rank and body size, and to the number of females in their unit. Males in OMUs had greater access to females, so were predicted to have longer AGDs, but this was not found. AGD also did not correlate overall with mean fecal androgen metabolites in MMUs. However, AGD was correlated with dominance rank in MMUs, demonst
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- Author
- Teichroeb, Julie A.; Stead, Samantha M.; Edwards, Phoebe D.; Landry, Florence; Palme, Rupert; Boonstra, Rudy
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons; Wiley (John Wiley & Sons); John Wiley & Sons Inc.; Wiley (ISSN 0275-2565)
- Published
- 2020
- Language
- EN
- Field
- Psychology (Social Sciences)