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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2017 Feb 1.
Published in final edited form as: Horm Behav. 2015 Oct 21;78:13–19. doi: 10.1016/j.yhbeh.2015.10.004

Table 3.

Comparison of behaviors indicating the test male was not attending to the infant distress stimulus. No significant difference was found between paired males and fathers at low and high dose estradiol and testosterone treatment.

Paired males Fathers

Behavior Dose mean±sem mean±sem Mann-Whitney U P
Chirp Low E2 67.29 158.00 24.00 1.00
High E2 108.10 119.60 23.50 0.95
Low T 75.43 229.90 20.00 0.61
High T 78.29 165.00 22.00 0.79

Long Call Low E2 27.71 11.86 16.00 0.30
High E2 22.00 10.71 16.50 0.33
Low T 24.83 4.86 10.00 0.12
High T 28.50 10.29 10.50 0.14

Look out cage Low E2 40.29 19.14 21.00 0.70
High E2 27.00 20.29 17.50 0.41
Low T 30.14 22.71 18.50 0.48
High T 22.29 20.29 22.50 0.85