... bonded society. Contrary to other Asian colobines, R . bieti were comparatively social, with grooming occupying 7.3% of the time. Social grooming was primarily a female affair, but males also participated in grooming networks. The integration of males into the social network of the OMU is thought to help...

...Colin M. Brand; Linda F. Marchant; Klaree J. Boose; Frances J. White; Tabatha M. Rood; Audra Meinelt Humans exhibit population level handedness for the right hand; however, the evolution of this behavioral phenotype is poorly understood. Here, we compared the laterality of a simple task (grooming...

... and mortality of infants during 2002-2003 at Mount Longevity, Taiwan Macaca cyclopis Allomothering Sex differences Grooming Mother-infant relationship Allomothering or allomaternal care is the handling of infants by individuals other than the mother, and this unique behaviour occurs widely...

...Anna H. Weyher; Jane E. Phillips-Conroy; Marc S. Fourrier; Clifford J. Jolly The behavior of the Central African Kinda baboon (Papio kindae) is not well documented. Having previously noted distinctive grooming behavior in several Kinda baboon populations, we investigated the topic more...

.... Primates Light intensity Marmoset Grooming Daily variation Original Article Folia Primatol 2011;82:131 142 DOI: 10.1159/000330914 Received: October 27, 2010 Accepted after revision: July 18, 2011 Published online: October 12, 2011 Influence of Different Light Intensities on the Daily Grooming...

...M. Butovskaya; A. Kozintsev; C. Welker Brief Report Folia Primatol 1995:65:30-33 © 1996 S. Karger AG. Basel 0015 -5 7 13/95/0651-0030 $ 10.00/0 Grooming and Social Rank by Birth: The Case of Macaca fascicularis M. Butovskaya1', A. Kozintsevh, C. Welker' a Institute of Ethnology and Anthropology...

... animals/ha) with a relatively low adult male to female ratio (1:8.8). Focal and ad libitum samples were collected on 32 adults (3 males and 29 females) from two groups. Although infrequent, grooming was observed between adult females from different groups, and alpha females were the main participants...

...R.I.M. Dunbar Frequencies of social grooming recorded from 44 species of free-living primates correlate with group size but not body size. This is interpreted as evidence for the social function of grooming and against the purely hygienic function. However, there is some evidence to suggest...

... mouse lemurs. avoid any competition for food. Water is freely avail­ aEbalceEh. acohf pthaeir i2s0obosbesrevrevdat4iotnimpeesraiowdseeklasftosr 520wemekins.. divided into 10 intervals of 2 min each. 4 preselected social behaviours are recorded according to the one- zero sampling method [9]: grooming...

... in any of the 3 species. Animals preferred to groom relatives significantly more frequently only in the M. mulatta group. A kin effect was clearly expressed in the choice of objects of support in aggressive conflicts in M. mulatta and M. fascicularis, whereas in M. arctoides such an effect was absent...

...] model of rank-related grooming and to investigate two other possible determinants of social bonding, i.e. relative age and the group’s stratification into two social classes. Data on affiliation, coalitions, and social competition were collected by means of both focal observation and instantaneous time...

...Toshisada Nishida Grooming between female chimpanzees and their offspring was studied in the Mahale Mountains, Tanzania. Infants under 2 years of age rarely groomed their mothers, and mostly groomed accessible parts of their mothers’ bodies, if they did so. Most older adolescents reciprocated...

...Jaclyn H. Wolfheim Grooming and avoiding scores were used as measures of the attractive and repulsive forces operating in a group of eight monkeys. The results revealed: (1) three unisexual grooming subgroups; (2) two focal monkeys (one ♀ and one ♂) which were each avoided by five animals, one...

...Peter M. Waser The survival and behavior of a postreproductive free-ranging female Cercocebus albigena is documented; her patterns of grooming, aggression, and other social and spatial relationships with members of her group are described and compared with those of other, cycling, females...

... and grooming. The direction and nature of agonistic interactions was predominantly intersexual and involved frequent attacks by single or multiple males against females. Comparisons with a feral population of spider monkeys (Ateles belzebuth) revealed marked similarities in spatial affinities and patterns...

... differences Sexual behaviour Grooming Aggression troop Leadership 9 9 2008 © 1971 S. Karger AG, Basel 1971 Copyright / Drug Dosage / Disclaimer Copyright: All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be translated into other languages, reproduced or utilized in any form...

...Pamela Roberts The grooming, play, sexual and other encounters among a group of 8 Galago crassicaudatus were recorded over a 5-week period. No clear-cut patterns of dominance or territoriality emerged. Individual preferences and aversions among the animals were evident, and such idiosyncrasies may...

..., and they groomed each other more than aimiri . Tail-twining between cagemates occurred only in Callicebus . ocomotor activity was less in Callicebus and the activity levels of agemates were more highly correlated. The findings are congruent with the family-type form of social organization described for Callicebus...

... fuscata yakui) on Yakushima Island Tobias F.C. Merkle Theoretical Biology, University of Bonn, Bonn and Max-Planck-Institut für Verhaltensphysiologie, Seewiesen, Germany (1998/1999) Key Words Japanese monkeys ` Activity patterns ` Age ` Males ` Feeding ` Moving ` Grooming ` Resting Investigations...

...Patricia Peignot; Frederique Jankowski; James R. Anderson Mandrills Self-scratching Grooming Dominance Communication 19 05 2003 19 08 2003 8 7 2004 2004 Copyright / Drug Dosage / Disclaimer Copyright: All rights reserved. No part of this publication may...