Reproductive success in female mountain goats: the influence of age and social rank

Côté, Steeve D.; Festa-Bianchet, Marco

doi:10.1006/anbe.2001.1719

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“…Most of the other studies reported here visually identify closest proximity (Lawrence 1990;Côté and Festa-Bianchet 2001;Le Pendu et al 1996), rather than have a set distance by which sociality is determined.…”

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confidence: 98%

“…As dominance hierarchy in sheep is influenced by both age and size (Côté and Festa-Bianchet 2001), the influence of hierarchy on age-related social contact is hard to separate. While we did not measure social rank, weight (as an indicator of size) did not influence close proximity of sheep in study 2, and so it is possible that age alone may be a greater driver of social contact in the flock than dominance, or that age may be a bigger driver of dominance than weight.…”

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Temperament, age and weather predict social interaction in the sheep flock

Doyle

Broster

Barnes

et al. 2016

Behavioural Processes

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Please cite this article as: Doyle, Rebecca E., Broster, John C., Barnes, Kirsty, Browne, William J., Temperament, age and weather predict social interaction in the sheep flock.Behavioural Processes http://dx.doi.org/10. 1016/j.beproc.2016.08.004 This is a PDF file of an unedited manuscript that has been accepted for publication. As a service to our customers we are providing this early version of the manuscript. The manuscript will undergo copyediting, typesetting, and review of the resulting proof before it is published in its final form. Please note that during the production process errors may be discovered which could affect the content, and all legal disclaimers that apply to the journal pertain. Highlights: Sheep appear to have temperament-related social preference for specific individuals within a flock. Age, rainfall and temperature all affected social interactions of the sheep flock. Vocalisations and movement scores in the isolation box test are well correlated over time, but the two types of behaviours were poorly correlated with each other, suggesting they reflect different things. Multiple Membership Multiple Classification modelling is a useful way to analyse social structures of the flock and make predictions on how animal or environment circumstances affect social behaviour. AbstractThe aim of the current study was to investigate the social relationships between individual sheep, and factors that influence this, through the novel application of the statistical multiple

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Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Temperament, age and weather predict social interaction in the sheep flock

Doyle

Broster

Barnes

et al. 2016

Behavioural Processes

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“…Current characteristics of an individual, such as age or dominance rank, regardless of genetic, maternal, or other contributions to these traits, also influence fitness components in most species (Abbott et al, 2003;Alberts et al, 2003;Alberts et al, 2006;Clutton-Brock, 1988;Côté and Festa-Bianchet, 2001;Förslund and Pärt, 1995;Holand et al, 2004;Holekamp et al, 1996;von Holst et al, 2002;Packer et al, 2000;Romero, 2004;Sapolsky, 2005). Furthermore, differences in GC levels are also sometimes associated with these current characteristics of an individual (Creel, 2001;Goymann and Wingfield, 2004;Sapolsky and Altmann, 1991).…”

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Persistence of maternal effects in baboons: Mother's dominance rank at son's conception predicts stress hormone levels in subadult males

Onyango

Gesquiere

Wango

et al. 2008

Hormones and Behavior

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Dominance status and reproductive experience are maternal characteristics that affect offspring traits in diverse taxa, including some cercopithecine primates. Maternal effects of this sort are widespread and are sources of variability in offspring fitness. We tested the hypothesis that maternal dominance rank and reproductive experience as well as a male's own age and dominance rank predicted chronic fecal glucocorticoid (fGC) concentrations in 17 subadult wild male baboons, Papio cynocephalus (median age 6.5 years), in the Amboseli basin, Kenya. Among these variables, maternal dominance rank at a subadult male's conception was the sole significant predictor of the male's fGC and accounted for 42% of fGC variance; sons of lower ranking mothers had higher fGC than did those of high ranking mothers. This result is striking because subadult male baboons are approximately 4-6 years past the period of infant dependence on their mothers, and are larger than and dominant to all adult females. In addition, many males of this age have survived their mothers' death. Consequently, the influence of maternal dominance rank persisted well beyond the stage at which direct maternal influence on sons is likely. Persistence of these major maternal influences from the perinatal period may signal organizational effects of mothers on sons' HPA axis. Although shortterm, acute, elevations in GC are part of adaptive responses to challenges such as predators and other emergencies, chronically elevated GC are often associated with stress-related pathologies and, thereby, adverse effects on fitness components.

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“…Ear tissue samples have been taken for DNA analysis to confirm the relationship between a kid and its mother that was first determined in the field from visual observations ). Females generally produce their first kid at the age of 4 or 5 years, and produce one kid annually, although reproductive pauses are common (Côte & Festa-Bianchet, 2001). The intraspecific aggression rate in female mountain goats is the highest ever measured in nature for female ungulates (Fournier & Festa-Bianchet, 1995).…”

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confidence: 99%