Sex and age differences in juvenile social priorities in female philopatric, nondespotic blue monkeys
dc.contributor.author | Cords, Marina | en_US |
dc.contributor.author | Sheehan, Michael J. | en_US |
dc.contributor.author | Ekernas, L. Stefan | en_US |
dc.date.accessioned | 2010-02-02T15:29:53Z | |
dc.date.available | 2011-03-01T16:26:42Z | en_US |
dc.date.issued | 2010-03 | en_US |
dc.identifier.citation | Cords, Marina; Sheehan, Michael J.; Ekernas, L. Stefan (2010). "Sex and age differences in juvenile social priorities in female philopatric, nondespotic blue monkeys." American Journal of Primatology 72(3): 193-205. <http://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/64898> | en_US |
dc.identifier.issn | 0275-2565 | en_US |
dc.identifier.issn | 1098-2345 | en_US |
dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/64898 | |
dc.description.abstract | Juveniles should choose social partners on the basis of both current and future utility. Where one sex is philopatric, one expects members of that sex to develop greater and sex-typical social integration with group-mates over the juvenile period. Where a partner's position in a dominance hierarchy is not associated with services it can provide, one would not expect juveniles to choose partners based on rank, nor sex differences in rank-based preferences. We tested these ideas on 39 wild juvenile (3.2–7.4 years) blue monkeys ( Cercopithecus mitis stuhlmanni), cercopithecines with strict female philopatry and muted hierarchies. We made focal animal observations over 6 months, and computed observed:expected amounts of proximity time, approaches and grooming given to various social partners. Overall, our results agree with the hypothesis that juvenile blue monkeys target social partners strategically. Spatial proximity, approaches and active grooming showed similar patterns regarding juvenile social preferences. Females were far more sociable than males, groomed more partners, reciprocated grooming more frequently, and preferred—while males avoided—infants as partners. Older juveniles (5–7 years) spent more time than younger juveniles (3–4 years) near others, and older females were especially attracted to infants. Close kin, especially mothers and less consistently adult sisters, were attractive to both male and female juveniles, regardless of age. Both sexes also preferred same-sex juveniles as social partners while avoiding opposite-sex peers. Juveniles of both sexes and ages generally neither preferred nor avoided nonmaternal adult females, but all juveniles avoided adult males. Partner's rank had no consistent effect on juveniles' preference, as expected for a species in which dominance plays a weak role. Juveniles' social preferences likely reflect both future and current benefits, including having tolerant adult kin to protect them against predators and conspecifics, same-sex play partners, and, for females, infants on which to practice mothering skills. Am. J. Primatol. 72:193–205, 2010. © 2009 Wiley-Liss, Inc. | en_US |
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dc.publisher | Wiley Subscription Services, Inc., A Wiley Company | en_US |
dc.subject.other | Life and Medical Sciences | en_US |
dc.subject.other | Anthropology | en_US |
dc.title | Sex and age differences in juvenile social priorities in female philopatric, nondespotic blue monkeys | en_US |
dc.type | Article | en_US |
dc.rights.robots | IndexNoFollow | en_US |
dc.subject.hlbsecondlevel | Ecology and Evolutionary Biology | en_US |
dc.subject.hlbtoplevel | Science | en_US |
dc.description.peerreviewed | Peer Reviewed | en_US |
dc.contributor.affiliationum | Anthropology Department, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania ; Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan | en_US |
dc.contributor.affiliationother | Department of Ecology, Evolution and Environmental Biology, Columbia University, New York, New York ; Department of Ecology, Evolution and Environmental Biology, Columbia University, New York, NY 10027 | en_US |
dc.contributor.affiliationother | Department of Ecology, Evolution and Environmental Biology, Columbia University, New York, New York ; Division of Biological Sciences, University of Montana, Missoula, Montana | en_US |
dc.identifier.pmid | 19953556 | en_US |
dc.description.bitstreamurl | http://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/64898/1/20768_ftp.pdf | |
dc.identifier.doi | 10.1002/ajp.20768 | en_US |
dc.identifier.source | American Journal of Primatology | en_US |
dc.owningcollname | Interdisciplinary and Peer-Reviewed |
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