2012
DOI: 10.1002/ajpa.22031
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Fitness‐related benefits of dominance in primates

Abstract: Dominance hierarchies are thought to provide various fitness-related benefits to dominant individuals (e.g., preferential access to food or mating partners). Remarkably, however, different studies on this topic have produced contradictory results, with some showing strong positive association between rank and fitness (i.e., dominants gain benefits over subordinates), others weak associations, and some others even revealing negative associations. Here, we investigate dominance-related benefits across primate sp… Show more

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“…In the mating season males tend to spend more time grooming females to improve mating opportunities (Gumert, 2007). Moreover, due to the higher frequencies of male-male competition in the mating season (Henzi and Lucas, 1980)-where dominant individuals tend to gain better access to females (Cowlishaw and Dunbar, 1991;Majolo et al, 2012)-grooming is likely to play an important role in managing male-male conflict. For example, grooming is often exchanged by former opponents to reconcile the costs of aggression (Cheney and Seyfarth, 1989;McFarland and Majolo, 2011a,b).…”
Section: Discussionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…In the mating season males tend to spend more time grooming females to improve mating opportunities (Gumert, 2007). Moreover, due to the higher frequencies of male-male competition in the mating season (Henzi and Lucas, 1980)-where dominant individuals tend to gain better access to females (Cowlishaw and Dunbar, 1991;Majolo et al, 2012)-grooming is likely to play an important role in managing male-male conflict. For example, grooming is often exchanged by former opponents to reconcile the costs of aggression (Cheney and Seyfarth, 1989;McFarland and Majolo, 2011a,b).…”
Section: Discussionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…An association (usually positive) between maternal rank and offspring survival is prevalent in many mammalian species (37,38), but was not documented in previous studies of our study population (39). In the present study, we were able to detect this link because we determined infanticide risk by assessing conception time and birth date in relation to AMR events instead of using (rarely) confirmed instances of infanticide, and we included the interaction between infanticide risk and rank (or sociality) in our models.…”
Section: Discussionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Such hierarchies fundamentally influence fitness, with dominant individuals generally having priority access to resources and breeding opportunities (Majolo et al, 2012;Nelson-Flower et al, 2011). Social interactions can also affect organismal physiology; subordinate endotherms often experience elevated body temperature (Bakken et al, 1999;Carere et al, 2001;Meerlo et al, 1996) and corticosterone (Bhatnagar et al, 2006;Keeney et al, 2001) following social defeats.…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%