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Androgen changes and flexible rutting behaviour in male giraffes

The social organization of giraffes (Giraffa camelopardalis) imposes a high-cost reproductive strategy on bulls, which adopt a ‘roving male’ tactic. Our observations on wild giraffes confirm that bulls indeed have unsynchronized rut-like periods, not unlike another tropical megaherbivore, the elepha...

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Autores principales: Seeber, Peter A., Duncan, Patrick, Fritz, Hervé, Ganswindt, André
Formato: Artigo
Lenguaje:Inglês
Publicado: The Royal Society 2013
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Acceso en línea:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3971675/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23925833
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rsbl.2013.0396
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