BIOL 453 -- ANIMAL SOCIETIES AND COMMUNICATION

FINDING SCIENTIFIC INFORMATION -- A TEST

ABOUT ANIMAL SOCIAL BEHAVIOR AND COMMUNICATION

January 2005

To compare the results from different search engines, I tried a search for "bonobo mating".

This search included one specific word and one general word.   I did not follow up with any refined searches.

Here are the results ...


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Academic Search Premier (only 1 item found)

What Females Tell Males About Their Reproductive Status: Are Morphological and 
Behavioural Cues Reliable Signals of Ovulation in Bonobos (Pan paniscus )?  
By: Reichert, Karin E.; Heistermann, Michael; Keith Hodges, J.; Boesch, 
Christophe; Hohmann, Gottfried. Ethology

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ISI Web of Knowledge (only 2 items found)

Kingan SB, Tatar M, Rand DM
Reduced polymorphism in the chimpanzee semen coagulating protein, semenogelinI 
JOURNAL OF MOLECULAR EVOLUTION 57 (2): 159-169 AUG 2003

Parish AR, De Waal FBM
The other "closest living relative" - How bonobos (Pan paniscus) challenge 
traditional assumptions about females, dominance, intra- and intersexual 
interactions, and hominid evolution 
ANNALS OF THE NEW YORK ACADEMY OF SCIENCES 907: 97-113 2000 

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BIOSIS Previews (7 items found -- the first two are listed here)

Mating harassment in captive bonobos (Pan paniscus)
Stevens, J., H. Vervaecke, L. Van Elsacker
Folia Primatologica Volume: 75 Pages: 57 (abstract only)
January-February 2004

Intra- and inter-sexual aggression by bonobos in the context of mating
Hohmann, G., B. Fruth
Behaviour Volume: 140 Issue: 11-12 Pages: 1389-1413
November-December 2003

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JSTOR (2 pages of items -- these are the first listed)

The Social Behavior of Chimpanzees and Bonobos: Empirical Evidence and 
Shifting Assumptions
Craig B. Stanford
Current Anthropology > Vol. 39, No. 4 (Aug., 1998), pp. 399-420


Issues in Bonobo (Pan Paniscus) Sexual Behavior Ben G. Blount
American Anthropologist > New Series, Vol. 92, No. 3 (Sep., 1990), pp. 702-714


Intracommunity Relationships, Dispersal Pattern and Paternity Success in a 
Wild Living Community of Bonobos (Pan paniscus) Determined from DNA Analysis 
of Faecal Samples
Ulrike Gerloff; Bianka Hartung; Barbara Fruth; Gottfried Hohmann; Diethard 
Tautz
Proceedings: Biological Sciences > Vol. 266, No. 1424 (Jun., 1999), pp. 
1189-1195


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scholar.google.com (these are the top hits)

Bonobo: the forgotten ape
F de Waal, F Lanting - 1997 - dannyreviews.com
... Bonobo sexuality is also notable. ... of positions" and among other 
behaviours bonobos regularly engage in homosexual sex, face-to-face mating, 
and masturbation. ...

Experimental field studies of Asian ape social systems
JC Mitani - International Journal of Primatology, 1990 - Springer
... Male-male aggression is the result of intense intrasexual competition oc- 
curring between animals for mating access to females. ... 3). Mating System 
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Endocrine Correlates of Dominance and Reproductive Success in Male Common () 
and Pygmy () 
... measurements for monitoring ovarian function and pregnancy in the bonobo 
( ... the interrelationship between dominance rank, endocrine status and 
mating success in ...

The Social Behavior of Chimpanzees and Bonobos: Empirical Evidence and 
Shifting Assumptions
CB Stanford - Current Anthropology, 1998 - JSTOR
... Bonobo mating rates are therefore not higher than those among chim- 
panzees if the swelling duration and not the entire in- terbirth period is 
used as the time ... 

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google.com (these are the top hits)

Bonobo Mating
This competition aids in the establishment of the male bonobo hierarchy. 
Bonobos probably developed into a promiscuous mating system in order to guard 
...
www.bio.davidson.edu/people/vecase/Behavior/Spring2004/laird/Mating.htm

BONOBO Mating System
Within the bonobo society, they have such a loose mating system due to an 
increased level of female receptivity to the male, as well as both female and 
male ...
www.bio.davidson.edu/people/vecase/behavior/Spring2003/Bryant/

Untitled Document
In it's home the Bonobo feeds itself on rain forest fruits, shoots, leaves, 
... They are the only other creature other than humans who engages in mating 
for ...
drake.marin.k12.ca.us/stuwork/seadisc/endgspecies/bonobo/page%202.html

Pygmy Chimpanzee (Bonobo) (Pan paniscus)
The bonobo is the only primate besides man who engages in mating for other 
purposes than procreation. Mating is not only dorso-ventral, as it is in Pan 
...
members.tripod.com/uakari/pan_paniscus.html

Bonobo Sex and Society. The behavior of a close relative challenges 
assumptions about male supremacy in human evolution.
www.primatesworld.com/bonobos.html

Mating behavior of Bonobo apes) will find that all of the keywords they come 
... So out of 10 articles about Bonobo mating behavior, some might focus more 
...
wiki.osafoundation.org/bin/view/Journal/TheNatureOfTags

Chapter 15: Introduction to Evolutionary Psychology
bonobo female spends more of her cycle in sexually receptive mode than her 
chimpanzee. cousin. Bonobo mating is largely promiscuous, so paternity is 
rarely ...
psych.colorado.edu/hgss/hgsschapters/HGSS_Chapter15.pdf

Bonobo (Pygmy Chimpanzee)
The only aparent sexual "taboo" being mothers mating with their mature sons. 
for more information: BONOBO: the Forgotten Ape by Frans de Waal and Frans 
...
www.geocities.com/RainForest/Canopy/3220/bonobo.html

ScienceDaily: Male Chimpanzees Prefer Mating With Old Females
Researchers studying chimpanzee mating preferences have found that although 
... Bonobo -- The Bonobo (Pan paniscus), until recently usually called the 
Pygmy ...


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amazon.com (these are the first listed)

Behavioural Diversity in Chimpanzees and Bonobos by Linda Marchant, 
Christophe Boesch, and Gottfried Hohmann (Paperback - Sep 30, 2002)
Buy new:  $60.00 $50.40    Used & new from $50.40
	
The Mating Mind: How Sexual Choice Shaped the Evolution of Human Nature by 
Geoffrey Miller (Paperback - April 17, 2001)
Buy new:  $15.95 $11.32    Used & new from $8.95
	
Bonobo: The Forgotten Ape by Frans B. M. de Waal and Frans Lanting (Paperback 
- Oct 27, 1998)
Buy new:  $34.95 $23.07    Used & new from $14.94
	
Great Ape Societies by William C. McGrew, Toshisada Nishida, and Linda F. 
Marchant (Paperback - May 21, 2003)
Buy new:  $52.00    Used & new from $18.99


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ebay.com  (0 items found!)

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