Leukemia Inhibitory Factor Is Necessary for Ovulation in Female Rhesus Macaques

Female-biased maternal investment in rhesus macaques.

Do Female Rhesus Macaques Choose Novel Males?

Prior research has shown that estrous female rhesus macaques (Mucacu rnuluttu) maintain spatial proximity preferentially to lower-ranking males. In this paper, 657 h of focal individual follows of 48 free-ranging estrous female rhesus macaques of two social groups during two mating seasons are used to evaluate the hypothesis that this phenomenon is attributable to female mate choice for novel m...

Measuring female mate choice in Cayo Santiago rhesus macaques

Few studies of female mate choice have been carried out among free-ranging non-human primates. To qualify as female mate choice, behaviour by oestrous females must predict the occurrence or rate of potentially fertile copulations, in comparisons between heterosexual dyads . In this paper, data are presented to show three behaviour patterns that meet this criterion in free-ranging rhesus macaque...

A spontaneous depressive pattern in adult female rhesus macaques

Non-human primates offer unique opportunities to study the development of depression rooted in behavioral and physiological abnormalities. This study observed adult female rhesus macaques within social hierarchies and aimed to characterize the physiological and brain abnormalities accompanying depressive-like behavior. The behaviors of 31 female rhesus macaques from 14 different breeding groups...

Paternal kinship among adult female rhesus macaques (Macaca mulatta)