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Longitudinal Studies of Sexual Behavior in the Oregon Troop of Japanese Macaques

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Sex and Behavior

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For the past six years my colleagues and I have spent over 8,000 man-hours studying the Oregon troop of Japanese macaques (Macaca fuscata). The aim of this research has been to understand the mechanisms that regulate sexual and social behavior in these nonhuman primates. The investigations have followed Beach’s (1960) strategy for investigating species-specific behavior:

One merely attempts to answer three questions: How did the behavior get to be what it is? What are the external causes of the behavior? What internal mechanisms mediate it? Phrased in slightly more sophisticated terms each of these questions can be said to deal with a different class of determinants of behavior. The determinants of behavior can be subdivided into three broad categories: Historical determinants, environmental determinants, and organismic determinants, (p. 5)

Publication No. 880 of the Oregon Regional Primate Research Center, supported in part by grants HD-05969 and RR-00163 from the National Institures of Health, U.S. Public Health Service.

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    G. Gray Eaton

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    Benjamin D. Sachs

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Eaton, G.G. (1978). Longitudinal Studies of Sexual Behavior in the Oregon Troop of Japanese Macaques. In: McGill, T.E., Dewsbury, D.A., Sachs, B.D. (eds) Sex and Behavior. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4899-0421-8_2

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