Promiscuity in Barbary macaques (<i>Macaca sylvanus</i>)

Small, Meredith F.

doi:10.1002/ajp.1350200403

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“…protection from other aggressive individuals), female mate choice and female competition for mating partners seems to be important factors in macaque reproductive 15 behaviour (Small, 1990;Takahata et al, 1994). If this is true, mating partners, exactly like food, are "resources" that cannot be shared by animals.…”

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“…Moreover, females consorting with dominant males may gain many sort-or long-term benefits, such as reduced aggression for her and her infant from the other group members or preferential access to food sources during the consortship (Palombit et al, 1997). All these factors are likely to favour female mate choice and female-female competition for mating partners (Small, 1990;Vasey, 1998). Indeed, there is some evidence that the mating season deteriorates female social relationships and increases competition among females (D'Amato et al, 1982;Mehlman & Chapais, 1988).…”

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Seasonal Effects on Reconciliation in Macaca fuscata yakui

Majolo

Koyama²

2006

Int J Primatol

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Diet composition may have profound effects on the activity budgets, level of food competition, and social behaviour of a species. Similarly, in seasonally breeding species, the mating season represents a period where the competition for mating partners increases, thus affecting amicable social interactions among group members.The aims of this study were thus to analyse the importance of the mating season and of seasonal variations in diet composition and food competition on reconciliation in wild female Japanese macaques (Macaca fuscata yakui) living on Yakushima Island, Japan.Yakushima macaques are appropriate for this topic as they are seasonal breeders and their diet composition significantly changes among the seasons. Although large differences were found between the summer months and the winter and early spring months in activity budgets and the consumption of the main food sources (i.e. fruits, seeds and leaves), the level of food competition and conciliatory tendency remained unaffected. Conversely, conciliatory tendency was significantly lower during the mating season than in the non-mating season. Moreover, conciliatory tendency was lower when one or both female opponents were in oestrous than when they were not. These results indicate that the mating season have profound effects on reconciliation whereas this is not true for seasonal changes in activity budgets and diet composition. The detrimental effects of the mating season on female social relationships and reconciliation may be due to the importance of female competition for access to male partners in multi-male, multi-female societies.

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Section: The Effect Of the Mating Season On Reconciliationmentioning

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Section: Introductionmentioning

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Seasonal Effects on Reconciliation in Macaca fuscata yakui

Majolo

Koyama²

2006

Int J Primatol

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“…They are seasonal breeders with a mating season in autumn and a birth season in spring (reviewed in Fooden 2007). Females mate with numerous males (Small 1990) and paternal kinship is not recognized (Ménard et al 2001;Kuester et al 1994; but see also Ménard et al 1992). Despite of the promiscuity selecting against male care for offspring (see van Schaik and Paul 1996), infants may spend exceedingly large proportions of the time being carried, cradled and groomed by males, whereas aggression or abuse by males are rare (e.g.…”

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Triadic awareness predicts partner choice in male–infant–male interactions in Barbary macaques

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Social knowledge beyond one's direct relationships is a key to successful maneuvering of the social world. Individuals gather information on the quality of social relationships between their group companions, which has been termed triadic awareness. Evidence of the use of triadic awareness in natural contexts is limited mainly to conflict management. Here we investigated triadic awareness in wild Barbary macaques (Macaca sylvanus) in the context of bridging interactions defined as male-infant-male interactions whereby a male (actor) presents an infant to another male (receiver) in order to initiate an affiliative interaction with that male. Analyses based on 1,263 hours of focal observations on ten infants of one wild social group in Morocco supported the hypothesis that males use their knowledge of the relationship between infants and other adult males when choosing a male as a partner for bridging interactions. Specifically, (i) the number of bridging interactions among initiator-infant-receiver triads was affected by the strength of the infant-receiver relationship and (ii) when two males were available as bridging partners, a male was more likely to be chosen as the receiver the stronger his social relationship with the infant in comparison to the other available male was. This demonstrates that non-human primates establish triadic awareness also of temporarily rather dynamic infant-male relationships and use it in naturally occurring affiliative context. Our results contribute to the discussion about the mechanism underlying the acquisition of triadic awareness and the benefits of its usage and lend support to hypotheses linking social complexity to the evolution of complex cognition.

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“…Females are assertive and frequently approach males to initiate copulations. Their mating system has been termed 'promiscuous' [23,24].…”

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An Overview of the Barbary Macaque, Macaca sylvanus, Vocal Repertoire

Fischer¹,

Hammerschmidt²

2002

IJFP

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This study provides an overview of the vocalizations of Barbary macaques, Macaca sylvanus. Spectrographic displays of calls are presented along with photographs of the accompanying facial gestures. We give a general description of the contexts in which the different calls are uttered, with special regard to the age and sex of the caller. The vocal repertoire of Barbary macaques mainly consists of screams, shrill barks, geckers, low-frequency pants and grunts, with gradation occurring within and between call types. The spectrograms document that typically, Barbary macaques produce series of several consecutive calls. The influence of habitat, social structure and phylogenetic descent on the morphology of the repertoire and call diversity are discussed in comparison to other species.

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Promiscuity in Barbary macaques (Macaca sylvanus)

Cited by 69 publications

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Seasonal Effects on Reconciliation in Macaca fuscata yakui

Seasonal Effects on Reconciliation in Macaca fuscata yakui

Triadic awareness predicts partner choice in male–infant–male interactions in Barbary macaques

An Overview of the Barbary Macaque, Macaca sylvanus, Vocal Repertoire

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