Alloparental behaviour in Barbary macaques, Macaca sylvanus

Small, Meredith F.

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“…In a population of semi-free-ranging Barbary macaques, infants were held or carried by non-mothers and adult males almost a fourth of the time (Small 1990 ) . Since females mate with multiple males during estrous, paternity is equivocal, and male care is probably directed sometimes to unrelated infants.…”

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When Dads Help: Male Behavioral Care During Primate Infant Development

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Fernández-Duque

2012

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In contrast to birds, male mammals rarely help to raise the offspring. Of all mammals, only among rodents, carnivores, and primates, males are sometimes intensively engaged in providing infant care (Kleiman and Malcolm 1981). Male caretaking of infants has long been recognized in nonhuman primates (Itani 1959). Given that infant care behavior can have a positive effect on the infant’s development, growth, well-being, or survival, why are male mammals not more frequently involved in “building babies”? We begin the chapter defining a few relevant terms and introducing the theory and hypotheses that have historically addressed the evolution of paternal care. We then review empirical findings on male care among primate taxa, before focusing, in the final section, on our own work on paternal care in South American owl monkeys (Aotus spp.). We conclude the chapter with some suggestions for future studies

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When Dads Help: Male Behavioral Care During Primate Infant Development

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2012

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“…In fact, although most copulations occur within groups, many female primates also copulate, and may conceive, with extragroup males (ringtailed lemurs: Sussman, 1992;sifaka: Richard, 1985a; patas monkeys: Rowell and Chism, 1986;Harding and Olson, 1986; forest guenons: Rowell and Chism, 1986;[Vol. 37, 1994 Cords, 1987; Barbary macaques: Mehlman, 1986;Small, 1990; Japanese macaques: Sprague, 1992;muriquis: Strier, 1994). Sexual access to females may still be the primary reason why males associate in heterosexual groups, but such associations may not be as effective at monopolizing access to female groups as is generally thought (Moore, 1992).…”

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“…Among some primates, such as yellow baboons and Barbary macaques, males may use infant care to establish affiliative relationships with females (Stein, 1984;Small, 1990). Among howler monkeys, Hanuman langurs, yellow baboons, and mountain gorillas, by contrast, males may commit or threaten to commit infanti-cide to secure access to estrous females (Hrdy, 1979;Smuts and Smuts, 1993; but see Bartlett et al, 1993).…”

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“…Yet, if reproduction is only one of the functions of sex in nonhuman as well as human primates, then by extension we must reconsider the suggestion that "social structures and mating systems are not the same things" (Cords, 1987:107; see also Melnick et al, 1984;Richard, 1985a; and review in Moore, 1992). The prevalence of female matings with extragroup males in Barbary and Japanese macaques (Mehlman, 1986;Small, 1990;Sprague, 1992) as well as several other primates (e.g., lemurs: Richard, 1985a;Richard and Dewar, 1991;Sussman, 1992; patas monkeys: Harding and Olson, 1986;Rowell and Chism, 1986; forest guenons: Cords, 1987; muriquis: Strier et al, 1993;Strier, 1994) may have profound consequences for the ways in which the function of primate social systems have traditionally been modeled from ecological and evolutionary principles.Questions about the generality of female philopatry, aggression, and sex for exclusively reproductive purposes were raised years ago and in some cases, repeatedly, in both empirical and theoretical publications. But, the strength of the "typical primate" model has overpowered the impact that many of these original challenges have had on the field (e.g., Glezer and Kinzey, 1993;Janson, 1993;Snowdon, 1993).…”

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“…I t is thought to occur in those species where the benefits of male-male aggression are offset by the necessity of cooperative alliances or by female codominance (Strier, 1990(Strier, , 1992b. Paradoxically, there is little evidence among lemurs for sperm competition, a t least as measured by testes size, despite female dominance over males (Kappeler and Ganzhorn, 1993).Among some primates, such as yellow baboons and Barbary macaques, males may use infant care to establish affiliative relationships with females (Stein, 1984;Small, 1990). Among howler monkeys, Hanuman langurs, yellow baboons, and mountain gorillas, by contrast, males may commit or threaten to commit infanti-…”

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Myth of the typical primate

Strier

1994

Am. J. Phys. Anthropol.

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Anthropological interest in nonhuman primates as models for human behavioral evolution has tended to focus on a relatively small number of species. This emphasis, coupled with a search for unifying principles that explain behavior, has led to a widespread perception of the semiterrestrial cercopithecines as "typical," and therefore characteristic of most other primates. The prevalence of male-biased dispersal and female philopatry, the use of aggression to establish and maintain hierarchical relationships, and the occurrence of sex for exclusively reproductive purposes have been challenged repeatedly, but the cercopithecine model of primate behavior has nonetheless persisted in much of the anthropological literature. This review incorporates accumulating data on a diversity of primates to examine the myth of the typical primate. The roles of kinship, aggression, and sex in mediating primate social relationships are far less uniform across primates than the myth has implied, raising questions about the generality of models of primate social systems derived from "typical" primates. Acknowledging existing diversity and encompassing it in more accurate portrayals of primate behavioral ecology requires consideration of the interacting effects of phylogenetic, demographic, ontogenetic, and physiological variables. o 1994 Wiley-Liss, Inc.In the last two decades, a growing number of anthropologists have begun to follow nonhuman primates out of the Old World savannas and woodlands into what remains of the world's tropical forests. Data on species that were once considered peripheral to questions about human behavioral evolution are now challenging many long-standing perceptions of comparative primate behavioral ecology. Yet, mainstream anthropology has been slow to incorporate behavioral findings from these newly studied species into its models. The anthropocentric currents of primatology run deep, and appear to have been resistant to change.Part of this resistance may be rooted in biases dating back to the first primate field studies in the 1930s, when psychologist Robert Yerkes sent his students to investigate the naturalistic behavior of nonhuman primates (Carpenter, 1934). By the mid 1950s, Japanese primatologists, influenced in part by Carpenter's work, and in part by Kinji Imanishi's belief that monkeys "resemble human beings more than they resemble other animals" (Asquith, 1991:91), initiated field studies on macaques (see Fedigan and Asquith, 1991). Soon afterward, American anthropologists began to focus on other Old World semi-terrestrial monkeys in an effort to understand the social correlates of adaptations to life on the ground (Washburn and DeVore, 1961; Dolhinow, 19721, and paleontologist Louis Leakey promoted field studies on the great apes because of their phylogenetic relatedness to humans.Unlike many anthropologists, primatologists from disciplines such as psychol- ogy and zoology have never limited their research to particular species or geographic areas that were obvious candidates for inferen...

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Fatal attraction: Interest in infants and infant abuse in rhesus macaques

Maestripieri

1999

Am. J. Phys. Anthropol.

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This study investigated whether infant abuse by female rhesus macaques (Macaca mulatta) is a phenomenon specific to their own offspring or reflects a general tendency to interact negatively with infants. Several aspects of the relationship between maternal behavior, infant handling, and infant harassment were also investigated. Study subjects were 20 group-living rhesus mothers with their infants observed during the first 12 weeks of lactation. The results of this study indicate that abusive mothers are highly attracted to infants in general but that infant abuse is a phenomenon specific to their own offspring. Infant harassment is not an accidental by-product of infant handling or the result of maternal inexperience but it is likely related to reproductive competition among lactating females. Maternal behavior and infant handling may be regulated by similar proximate mechanisms, but probably have different adaptive functions and evolutionary history across the Primate order. Am J Phys Anthropol 110:17-25.

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Alloparental behaviour in Barbary macaques, Macaca sylvanus

Cited by 64 publications

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When Dads Help: Male Behavioral Care During Primate Infant Development

When Dads Help: Male Behavioral Care During Primate Infant Development

Myth of the typical primate

Fatal attraction: Interest in infants and infant abuse in rhesus macaques

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