Considering Social Play in Primates: A Case Study in Juvenile Tibetan Macaques (Macaca thibetana)

Mayhew, Jessica A.; Funkhouser, Jake A.; Wright, Kaitlin R.

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“…Play behaviour is essential for the locomotive, cognitive, and social development of young individuals 64 . Therefore, younger individuals are expected to score higher on these traits than older individuals, in which activity budgets and priorities may have shifted more towards goals such as reproduction and competition 65 . Alongside age, sex was also found to significantly predict personality scores on activity-sociability and exploration, in which males scored higher than females.…”

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Behavioural, physiological, and genetic drivers of coping

Bhattacharjee,

Guðjónsdóttir,

Chova

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Animals regularly experience stressful situations, ranging from predation to social stress, yet successfully deal with them on most occasions. This adaptive mechanism, coping, reduces the adverse effects of stressors through behavioural and physiological efforts, failing to which may result in reduced fitness. However, considerable variation in coping is observed. Unlike in humans, coping is often considered a personality trait in non-human animals due to construct similarity, resulting in conceptual ambiguity. Besides, limited multidisciplinary research has rendered comprehending the drivers of coping in animals challenging. We assessed repetitive behavioural coping or coping styles (n=30), emotional arousal (n=12), and consistent inter-individual differences, i.e., personalities (n=32) of long-tailed macaques (Macaca fascicularis) using observations, ecologically relevant experiments, and infrared thermography. We finally investigated the association of coping with a Valine/Methionine polymorphism encoded by the Catechol-O-methyltransferase (COMT) gene (n=26), which is widely known for its involvement in human stress regulation. Our findings suggest that personality and the presence of the human equivalentCOMTVal158Met polymorphism in long-tailed macaques are associated with ‘emotion-focused’ and ‘problem-focused’ coping styles. These coping styles were consistent with emotional arousal as measured with infrared thermography. We discuss these proximate drivers of coping for a better understanding of its evolution in primates.

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Behavioural, physiological, and genetic drivers of coping

Bhattacharjee,

Guðjónsdóttir,

Chova

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“…Possibly, juvenile and sub-adult Barbary macaques' pronounced play behaviour was responsible for the reaction. Aggressive behaviour has been reported in the context of play behaviour and is considered to contribute to group integration and the development of motor and social skills (Mayhew, Funkhouser, & Wright, 2020).…”

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“…Most likely this is related to play behaviour and curiosity. Aggressive behaviour belongs to play behaviour in infants and sub-adults as it trains the development of motor skills (Mayhew et al, 2020). In Chapter 4, I was able to demonstrate that the motivation to engage with the experimental tasks, which were unknown objects for the Barbary macaques, declined with age.…”

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Determinants of cognitive performance and social preferences across age in Barbary macaques (Macaca sylvanus)

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Aging is a universal process that occurs in almost all organisms and is defined as a progressive decrease in physiological functioning. For centuries, researchers have been interested in aging processes and their consequences. This is partly due to the fact that the proportion of older adults in human societies worldwide has increased in recent decades.In addition to research on the physiological basis of aging, it becomes increasingly important to study social aging. With increasing age, the size of the social network often decreases, which can have an impact on health and mortality risk. Psychological theories have been developed that attempt to disentangle the factors that explain the declining sociality in old age. To better understand age-related changes during lifespan from an evolutionary perspective, comparative studies are essential. Due to a similar physiological and cognitive aging process in the absence of societal norms that shape social aging in human societies, non-human primates can provide valuable insights here.The aim of this dissertation was to establish a link between the psychology of aging and behavioural biology. For that purpose, I studied Barbary macaques (Macaca sylvanus) as a model species to determine whether comparable patterns also occur in non-human primates. Studying non-human primates allowed to explicitly test hypotheses derived from psychological theories and at the same time provides insights for new theory building. The

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Adult play and the evolution of tolerant and cooperative societies

Palagi

2023

Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews

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Considering Social Play in Primates: A Case Study in Juvenile Tibetan Macaques (Macaca thibetana)

Cited by 3 publications

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Behavioural, physiological, and genetic drivers of coping

Behavioural, physiological, and genetic drivers of coping

Determinants of cognitive performance and social preferences across age in Barbary macaques (Macaca sylvanus)

Adult play and the evolution of tolerant and cooperative societies

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