Sexual Selection in Primates: Sexual selection and exaggerated sexual swellings of female primates

By D. Zinner, Charles L. Nunn, C. Schaik, Peter M. Kappeler. 2004

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Subfields: Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, Social Psychology

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Sexual Skin Color Contains Information About the Timing of the Fertile Phase in Free-ranging Macaca mulatta (2009, unknown): “…fertile phase, fecal steroids, Macaca mulatta 45 46 3 INTRODUCTION 47 48 In several primate species, there is variation over the ovarian cycle in the sexual skin of females, 49 namely an increase in size (‘sexual swelling’) and/or change in color (Dixson 1983; Nunn 1999; 50 Zinner et al. 2004).”
Assessment of female reproductive status by male longtailed macaques, Macaca fascicularis, under natural conditions (2004, unknown): “…volatile fatty acids, which are considered to function as sex-pheromones in macaques, have been shown to be under oestrogen control, and moreover, are known to increase male sexual motivation in macaques (Zumpe & Michael 1985; Zinner et al. 2003; Michael & Keverne 1968, 1970; Michael & Zumpe 1993).”
Sexual coercion by male chimpanzees shows that female choice may be more apparent than real (2011, background): “human primates, females mate promiscuously by actively soliciting copulations from multiple partners (Dixson 1998; Hrdy 1981; Nunn 1999; Zinner et al. 2004; Clarke et al. 2009).”
Sexual selection in females (2009, background): “Well-studied examples include the abdominal sacs and enlarged pinnate leg scales of females in some empidid dance flies (Cumming 1994; LeBas et al. 2003) and the perineal swellings of females in social primates and some birds (Chiba & Nakamura 2002, 2003; Zinner et al. 2004; Ekstrom et al. 2007).”
Life History and Reproductive Strategies of Khao Yai Hylobates lar: Implications for Social Evolution in Apes (2008, unknown): “…females developmoderate sexual swellings (Barelli et al. 2007), which likely evolved in the context of promiscuous mating systems (Nunn 1999; Zinner et al. 2004), and overall gibbon females mate polyandrously with males living in their immediate vicinity (Barelli et al. 2008a; Reichard…”
Ecological, social, and reproductive factors shape producer–scrounger dynamics in baboons (2009, background): “…of the female’s anogenital skin which, as in many catarrhine primate species, gradually swells during each estrous cycle, reaching its maximal size around the time of ovulation (fertile phase), before rapidly returning to its nonswollen state (nonfertile phase; for details, see Zinner et al. 2004).”
Social competition and its consequences in female mammals (2013, background): “…with large 989 swellings for the size and colouring of female sexual swellings varies throughout 990 the menstrual cycle of females, providing an approximate indicator of variation in 991 fecundity (Zinner et al. 2004, Plavcan 2004, Emery & Whitten 2003, Higham et al. 992 2008, Higham et al. 2009).”