Mother-daughter dominance reversals in rhesus monkeys (Macaca mulatta)

Chikazawa, Dennis; Gordon, Thomas P.; Bean, Carol A.; Bernstein, Irwin S.

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“…Whether particular reversal patterns (offspring/mother, younger/ older sister) prove to be common in wild patas remains to be seen. Such rank changes are routine in other species (e.g., Macaca mulatta: Missakian, 1972;Sade, 1967; compare Chikazawa et al, 1979;M. fuscata: Kawamura, 1965;compare Hill & Okayasu, 1995), but modeling patas dominance relations on those of nonguenons is probably unwise (Kaplan, 1987;Rowell, 1988).…”

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Longitudinal study of dominance relations among captive patas monkeys

Goldman¹,

Loy

1997

Am. J. Primatol.

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Longitudinal study of dominance relations among captive patas monkeys

Goldman¹,

Loy

1997

Am. J. Primatol.

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“…They may gain some information, however, from their own nonagonistic interactions with their mother. This may explain the uncertainty about whether or not the mother is targeted by her daughter in this study, and whether mothers or daughters are dominant when the daughters mature in other species [Angst, 1975;Moore, 1978;Chikazawa et al, 1979].…”

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Interventions and the Development of Dominance Relationships in Female Baboons

Walters¹

1980

IJFP

157

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Dominance relationships between adult and adolescent female yellow baboons, Papio cynocephalus, were studied in Amboseli Park, Kenya. Adolescents attempted to become dominant to some females (called ‘targeted females’) while remaining subordinate to others. Agonistic relationships with targeted females passed through a sequence of stages before the younger female achieved dominance. An examination of nondyadic agonistic interactions revealed that adolescents frequently intervened against targeted females, but never against nontargeted females, and that others sometimes aided adolescents against targeted females, but aided nontargeted females against adolescents. Interveners were unrelated adult females and other adolescents as well as kin. Targeting was determined by birth rank (the rank of the adolescent’s mother at the time of the adolescent’s birth) and did not depend on interventions by the mother.

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“…Rank, which strongly affects the expression of adult sexual behavior, similarly affects sexual behavior in adolescents. However, since adolescent females are in the process of attaining their adult social rank (Chikazawa et al, 1979;Datta & Beauchamp, 1991;Nieuwenhuijsen et al, 1988), the suppression of sexual behavior which results from low social rank may more profoundly affect adolescent sexual behavior, completely suppressing the sexual behavior of some individuals. In addition, rank alters the rate of sexual maturation directly, thus affecting the development of sexual behavior by altering the timing of pubertal changes in the female's physiology.…”

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“…In addition, female-female aggression increases around ovulation, with low ranked females receiving more aggression than high ranked females (Nieuwenhuijsen et al, 1988;Walker et al, 1983). The social rank of females is not stable before and during adolescent development, but reproductive females assume a higher matrilineal rank than their older sisters (Chikazawa, Gordon, Bean, & Bernstein, 1979). Thus, access to sexual partners may be limited or disrupted for pubertal females, who have not yet attained adult social rank (Nieuwenhuijsen et al, 1988).…”

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“…In addition, the size difference between adult males and young females is much greater in early than late adolescence. Third, adult female social rank is attained during puberty, with young adolescent females ranking lower than their final adult social rank (Chikazawa et al, 1979;Datta & Beauchamp, 1991;Nieuwenhuijsen et al, 1988). Thus, a female might have a stronger rankrelated suppression of sexual behavior early in adolescence than late in adolescence.…”

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Hormones and history: The evolution and development of primate female sexuality

Wallen¹,

Zehr

2004

Journal of Sex Research

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Sexual behavior is required for reproduction in internally fertilizing species but poses significant social and physical risks. Females in many nonprimate species have evolved physical and behavioral mechanisms restricting sexual behavior to when females are fertile. The same hormones producing female fertility also control these mechanisms, assuring that sex only occurs when reproduction is possible. In contrast to nonprimate mammals, hormones do not regulate the capacity to engage in sex in female anthropoid primates, uncoupling fertility and the physical capacity to mate. Instead, in primates, sexual motivation has become the primary coordinator between sexual behavior and fertility. This dependence upon psychological mechanisms to coordinate physiology with behavior is possibly unique to primates, including humans, and allows a variety of nonphysiological influences, particularly social context, to regulate sexual behavior. The independence between hormonal state and sexual behavior allows sex to be used for social purposes. This complex regulation of primate sexuality develops during adolescence, where female monkeys show both hormonally influenced sexual motivation and socially modulated sexual behavior. We present findings from rhesus monkeys illustrating how social context and hormonal state interact to modulate adolescent and adult sexuality. It is argued that this flexibility in sexual behavior, combined with a tight regulation of sexual motivational systems by reproductive hormones, allows sexual behavior to be used for nonreproductive purposes while still assuring its occurrence during periods of female fertility. The evolutionary pressures that produced such flexibility in sexual behavior remain puzzling, but may reflect the importance of sexuality to primate social attraction and cohesion.With respect to sexuality, I have often speculated on it, and have always concluded that we are too ignorant to speculate: no physiologist can conjecture why the two elements go to form a new being, and more than that, why nature strives at uniting the two elements from two individuals. (Darwin, 1861, in Darwin, 1903 In the preceding quote, Darwin's reference to "sexuality" was in the sense of sexual reproduction. We are, however, similarly ignorant about the behavior that accompanies sexual reproduction, the now conventional use of the term sexuality. What are the causes for engaging in sexual behavior? Why does sexual behavior vary across development and across species? What brings two individuals together so that their gametes can combine? We have partial answers to some of these questions, while answers for others remain elusive. However much of what is understood reflects the reality that sex is expensive, dangerous, and time consuming.

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Mother-daughter dominance reversals in rhesus monkeys (Macaca mulatta)

Cited by 47 publications

References 12 publications

Longitudinal study of dominance relations among captive patas monkeys

Longitudinal study of dominance relations among captive patas monkeys

Interventions and the Development of Dominance Relationships in Female Baboons

Hormones and history: The evolution and development of primate female sexuality

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