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The sexual skin of the Gelada Baboon (Theropithecus gelada)
Author(s) -
Matthews L. Harrison
Publication year - 1956
Publication title -
the transactions of the zoological society of london
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.915
H-Index - 96
eISSN - 1469-7998
pISSN - 0084-5620
DOI - 10.1111/j.1096-3642.1956.tb00273.x
Subject(s) - baboon , zoology , biology , ecology
Summary In the Gelada Baboon there are two areas of bare pigmented sexual skin, one 011 the chest, the other in the perineal region. Cyclic swelling and intensification of the red colour of this sexual skin is accompanied by the associated development of conspicuous, circumambient, cutaneous vesicles.