scholarly journals A resident-nepotistic-tolerant dominance style in wild white-nosed coatis (Nasua narica)?

Behaviour ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 156 (9) ◽  
pp. 927-968
Author(s):  
Claudio de la O ◽  
Ines Fürtbauer ◽  
Andrew J. King ◽  
David Valenzuela-Galván
Keyword(s):  
Social Relationships ◽  
Social Systems ◽  
Dominance Rank ◽  
Systematic Investigation ◽  
Primate Species ◽  
Female Resident ◽  
Dominance Style ◽  
Nasua Narica ◽  
Dominance Relationships ◽  
Sources Of Variation

Abstract Dominance relationships imply consistent asymmetries in social relationships. Socioecological models predict that resource distribution determines the mode of competition that animals will face and, ultimately, the nature of their social relationships. Here, we provide the first systematic investigation of dominance style in white-nosed coatis (Nasua narica). Coatis live in cohesive female-resident groups, and have a diet based on clumped (fruits) and dispersed (insects) food items, which are predicted to favour despotic and egalitarian social styles, respectively. Our results revealed moderate linearity and steepness in dominance relationships over time, with variations attributed to stages of reproductive season, rather than presumed variations in food resources. Primary social bonds and coalitions were found to mediate dominance rank. Overall, our results suggest some similarities between coatis and despotic-tolerant primate species, at least under particular ecological circumstances, and we discuss their potential for affording a deeper understanding on the sources of variation in mammal social systems.

scholarly journals Bystanders intervene to impede grooming in Western chimpanzees and sooty mangabeys

2017 ◽  
Vol 4 (11) ◽  
pp. 171296 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alexander Mielke ◽  
Liran Samuni ◽  
Anna Preis ◽  
Jan F. Gogarten ◽  
Catherine Crockford ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Social Relationships ◽  
Negative Impact ◽  
Dominance Rank ◽  
Primate Species ◽  
Negative Consequences ◽  
Sooty Mangabeys ◽  
Lower Ranking ◽  
Cercocebus Atys ◽  
The Impact ◽  
The Relationship

Grooming interactions benefit groomers, but may have negative consequences for bystanders. Grooming limits bystanders' grooming access and ensuing alliances could threaten the bystander's hierarchy rank or their previous investment in the groomers. To gain a competitive advantage, bystanders could intervene into a grooming bout to increase their own grooming access or to prevent the negative impact of others' grooming. We tested the impact of dominance rank and social relationships on grooming intervention likelihood and outcome in two sympatric primate species, Western chimpanzees ( Pan troglodytes verus ) and sooty mangabeys ( Cercocebus atys atys ). In both species, rather than increasing their own access to preferred partners, bystanders intervened mainly when an alliance between groomers could have a negative impact on them: when the lower-ranking groomer was close to the bystander in rank, when either groomer was an affiliation partner whose services they could lose, or the groomers were not yet strongly affiliated with each other. Thus, bystanders in both species appear to monitor grooming interactions and intervene based on their own dominance rank and social relationships, as well as triadic awareness of the relationship between groomers. While the motivation to intervene did not differ between species, mangabeys appeared to be more constrained by dominance rank than chimpanzees.

scholarly journals Dominance style only partially predicts differences in neophobia and social tolerance over food in four macaque species

2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Federica Amici ◽  
Anja Widdig ◽  
Andrew J. J. MacIntosh ◽  
Victor Beltrán Francés ◽  
Alba Castellano-Navarro ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Social Systems ◽  
Dominance Rank ◽  
Food Competition ◽  
Individual Characteristics ◽  
Social Tolerance ◽  
Eigenvector Centrality ◽  
Novel Food ◽  
Species Dominance ◽  
Dominance Style ◽  
Dominance Styles

AbstractPrimates live in complex social systems with social structures ranging from more to less despotic. In less despotic species, dominance might impose fewer constraints on social choices, tolerance is greater than in despotic species and subordinates may have little need to include novel food items in the diet (i.e. neophilia), as contest food competition is lower and resources more equally distributed across group members. Here, we used macaques as a model to assess whether different dominance styles predict differences in neophilia and social tolerance over food. We provided familiar and novel food to 4 groups of wild macaques (N = 131) with different dominance styles (Macaca fuscata, M. fascicularis, M. sylvanus, M. maura). Our study revealed inter- and intra-specific differences in individuals’ access to food, which only partially reflected the dominance styles of the study subjects. Contrary to our prediction, social tolerance over food was higher in more despotic species than in less despotic species. Individuals with a higher dominance rank and being better socially integrated (i.e. higher Eigenvector centrality) were more likely to retrieve food in all species, regardless of their dominance style. Partially in line with our predictions, less integrated individuals more likely overcame neophobia (as compared to more integrated ones), but only in species with more tolerance over food. Our study suggests that individual characteristics (e.g. social integration or personality) other than dominance rank may have a stronger effect on an individual’s access to resources.

scholarly journals Dominance style is a key predictor of vocal use and evolution across nonhuman primates

2021 ◽  
Vol 8 (7) ◽  
pp. 210873
Author(s):  
Eithne Kavanagh ◽  
Sally E. Street ◽  
Felix O. Angwela ◽  
Thore J. Bergman ◽  
Maryjka B. Blaszczyk ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Social Relationships ◽  
Vocal Communication ◽  
Animal Communication ◽  
Primate Species ◽  
Individual Level ◽  
Dominance Style ◽  
Evolution Of Communication ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Human Primate

Animal communication has long been thought to be subject to pressures and constraints associated with social relationships. However, our understanding of how the nature and quality of social relationships relates to the use and evolution of communication is limited by a lack of directly comparable methods across multiple levels of analysis. Here, we analysed observational data from 111 wild groups belonging to 26 non-human primate species, to test how vocal communication relates to dominance style (the strictness with which a dominance hierarchy is enforced, ranging from ‘despotic’ to ‘tolerant’). At the individual-level, we found that dominant individuals who were more tolerant vocalized at a higher rate than their despotic counterparts. This indicates that tolerance within a relationship may place pressure on the dominant partner to communicate more during social interactions. At the species-level, however, despotic species exhibited a larger repertoire of hierarchy-related vocalizations than their tolerant counterparts. Findings suggest primate signals are used and evolve in tandem with the nature of interactions that characterize individuals' social relationships.

FEMALE DOMINANCE RELATIONSHIPS AMONG CAPTIVE WESTERN LOWLAND GORILLAS: COMPARISONS WITH THE WILD

Behaviour ◽  
1999 ◽  
Vol 136 (10-11) ◽  
pp. 1283-1310 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joan Lockard ◽  
Jennifer Scott
Keyword(s):  
Natural Habitat ◽  
High Energy ◽  
Gorilla Gorilla ◽  
Female Dominance ◽  
Primate Species ◽  
Dominance Hierarchies ◽  
Mountain Gorillas ◽  
Dominance Relationships ◽  
Western Lowland Gorillas ◽  
Lowland Gorillas

AbstractFemale dominance relationships were studied among three family groups of western lowland gorillas (Gorilla gorilla gorilla) housed in large enclosures at Howletts Wild Animal Park, in Kent, England. In common with gorillas in their natural habitat, the Howletts gorillas forage throughout the day on low nutrient foods. However, the latter differ, at least from mountain gorillas (Gorilla gorilla beringei), in that they also have relatively frequent access to high nutrient, high energy novel food items which are patchily distributed in time and space, and defendable. It was predicted that, despite these differences, the Howletts females would resemble mountain gorillas in forming adult female dominance hierarchies (determined from supplant interactions) in which older females that have lived in the group the longest are dominant to younger females, more recent to the group. The comparison was made with mountain gorillas as they are the only gorilla subspecies for which such data exist for wild-living populations. As predicted, an age/tenure-based dominance hierarchy was found to be the case for those groups at Howletts where there was considerable variation between the females' ages and length of group tenure. As gorillas and chimpanzees resemble more closely each other in forming age/tenure-based dominance hierarchies than they do other female-transfer primate species, it is proposed that the gorilla-chimpanzee pattern may have common phylogenetic origins. In addition, the order of progression of gorillas into their indoor living quarters appears to be a good indicator of supplant-dominance relationships among adult group members. It was also found that, despite being removed from their natural habitat, dominant males in captivity still lead their groups during group travel in the same manner that do males in the wild: either at the head, or bringing up the rear. Though primate social behaviour may be flexible depending on immediate context and life history variables, this flexibility may well remain within evolutionarily defined parameters, leading to species-typical patterns in general social interactions.

The establishment and maintenance of dominance hierarchies

2022 ◽  
Vol 377 (1845) ◽  
Author(s):  
Elizabeth A. Tibbetts ◽  
Juanita Pardo-Sanchez ◽  
Chloe Weise
Keyword(s):  
Dominance Hierarchy ◽  
Social Dynamics ◽  
Dominance Rank ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Dominance Hierarchies ◽  
Dominance Relationships ◽  
Hierarchy Formation ◽  
Behavioural Dynamics ◽  
Self Organizing

Animal groups are often organized hierarchically, with dominant individuals gaining priority access to resources and reproduction over subordinate individuals. Initial dominance hierarchy formation may be influenced by multiple interacting factors, including an animal's individual attributes, conventions and self-organizing social dynamics. After establishment, hierarchies are typically maintained over the long-term because individuals save time, energy and reduce the risk of injury by recognizing and abiding by established dominance relationships. A separate set of behaviours are used to maintain dominance relationships within groups, including behaviours that stabilize ranks (punishment, threats, behavioural asymmetry), as well as signals that provide information about dominance rank (individual identity signals, signals of dominance). In this review, we describe the behaviours used to establish and maintain dominance hierarchies across different taxa and types of societies. We also review opportunities for future research including: testing how self-organizing behavioural dynamics interact with other factors to mediate dominance hierarchy formation, measuring the long-term stability of social hierarchies and the factors that disrupt hierarchy stability, incorporating phenotypic plasticity into our understanding of the behavioural dynamics of hierarchies and considering how cognition coevolves with the behaviours used to establish and maintain hierarchies. This article is part of the theme issue ‘The centennial of the pecking order: current state and future prospects for the study of dominance hierarchies’.

Social data collection and analyses

2021 ◽  
pp. 53-76
Author(s):  
Marie J. E. Charpentier ◽  
Marie Pelé ◽  
Julien P. Renoult ◽  
Cédric Sueur
Keyword(s):  
Social Relationships ◽  
Information Diffusion ◽  
Social Systems ◽  
Large Data ◽  
Natural Environments ◽  
Data Sets ◽  
Large Array ◽  
Fine Grained ◽  
Network Analyses ◽  
Analytical Tools

Sampling accurate and quantitative behavioural data requires the description of fine-grained patterns of social relationships and/or spatial associations, which is highly challenging, especially in natural environments. Although behavioural ecologists have tackled systematic studies on animals’ societies since the nineteenth century, new biologging technologies have the potential to revolutionise the sampling of animals’ social relationships. However, the tremendous quantity of data sampled and the diversity of biologgers (such as proximity loggers) currently available that allow the sampling of a large array of biological and physiological data bring new analytical challenges. The high spatiotemporal resolution of data needed when studying social processes, such as disease or information diffusion, requires new analytical tools, such as social network analyses, developed to analyse large data sets. The quantity and quality of the data now available on a large array of social systems bring undiscovered outputs, consistently opening new and exciting research avenues.

scholarly journals Effect of Group Size and Individual Characteristics on Intergroup Encounters in Primates

2020 ◽  
Vol 41 (2) ◽  
pp. 325-341 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bonaventura Majolo ◽  
Aurora deBortoli Vizioli ◽  
Laura Martínez-Íñigo ◽  
Julia Lehmann
Keyword(s):  
Group Size ◽  
Dominance Rank ◽  
Individual Characteristics ◽  
Primate Species ◽  
New World Monkeys ◽  
Older Individuals ◽  
Data Set ◽  
Unequal Distribution ◽  
Intergroup Encounters ◽  
Group 2

AbstractIntergroup encounters are common in nonhuman primates and can vary from affiliative to aggressive. We extracted data from the literature to test five different hypotheses: 1) where there are group size differences between opposing groups, whether the larger group is more likely to win an intergroup encounter than the smaller group; 2) whether the likelihood of a group engaging in aggressive intergroup encounters increases with group size; and 3–5) whether dominant, older individuals, and/or males are more likely to participate aggressively in intergroup encounters than subordinate, younger individuals and/or females. Our data set comprised 52 studies on 31 primate species (3 lemur species, 5 New World monkeys, 19 Old World monkeys, and 4 apes). We found that the larger group is more likely to win an encounter against a smaller group than vice versa. We found no significant relationship between group size and propensity to be aggressive during intergroup encounters. We found weak/no support for the effect of age, dominance rank, and sex on the frequency of aggression displayed toward outgroup individuals during intergroup encounters. Species- and population-specific differences in inter- and intragroup competition and in the degree of the unequal distribution of resources across group members may explain why age, dominance rank, and sex are not strong predictors of aggression during intergroup encounters.

scholarly journals Flexible decision-making in grooming partner choice in sooty mangabeys and chimpanzees

2018 ◽  
Vol 5 (7) ◽  
pp. 172143 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alexander Mielke ◽  
Anna Preis ◽  
Liran Samuni ◽  
Jan F. Gogarten ◽  
Roman M. Wittig ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Social Relationships ◽  
Partner Choice ◽  
Primate Species ◽  
Choice Situation ◽  
Decision Making Process ◽  
Sources Of Information ◽  
Multiple Sources ◽  
Multiple Partner ◽  
Sooty Mangabeys

Living in permanent social groups forces animals to make decisions about when, how and with whom to interact, requiring decisions to be made that integrate multiple sources of information. Changing social environments can influence this decision-making process by constraining choice or altering the likelihood of a positive outcome. Here, we conceptualized grooming as a choice situation where an individual chooses one of a number of potential partners. Studying two wild populations of sympatric primate species, sooty mangabeys ( Cercocebus atys atys ) and western chimpanzees ( Pan troglodytes verus ), we tested what properties of potential partners influenced grooming decisions, including their relative value based on available alternatives and the social relationships of potential partners with bystanders who could observe the outcome of the decision. Across 1529 decision events, multiple partner attributes (e.g. dominance ranks, social relationship quality, reproductive state, partner sex) influenced choice. Individuals preferred to initiate grooming with partners of similar global rank, but this effect was driven by a bias towards partners with a high rank compared to other locally available options. Individuals also avoided grooming partners who had strong social relationships with at least one bystander. Results indicated flexible decision-making in grooming interactions in both species, based on a partner's value given the local social environment. Viewing partner choice as a value-based decision-making process allows researchers to compare how different species solve similar social problems.

scholarly journals Back to the Future: A Glance Over Wolf Social Behavior to Understand Dog–Human Relationship

Animals ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 9 (11) ◽  
pp. 991 ◽  
Author(s):  
Giada Cordoni ◽  
Elisabetta Palagi
Keyword(s):  
Social Relationships ◽  
Cognitive Abilities ◽  
Social Play ◽  
Social Tolerance ◽  
Communicative Skills ◽  
Cooperative Society ◽  
Post Conflict ◽  
Dominance Relationships ◽  
Proximate Causes ◽  
The Relationship

This review focuses on wolf sociobiology to delineate the traits of cooperative baggage driven by natural selection (wolf-wolf cooperation) and better understand the changes obtained by artificial selection (dog-human cooperation). We selected some behaviors of the dog’s ancestors that provide the basis for the expression of a cooperative society, such as dominance relationships, leverage power, post-aggressive strategies, and playful dynamics between pack members. When possible, we tried to compare the data on wolves with those coming from the dog literature. Wolves can negotiate commodities when the interacting subjects occupy different ranking positions by bargaining social tolerance with helping and support. They are able to manage group disruption by engaging in sophisticated post-conflict maneuvers, thus restoring the relationship between the opponents and reducing the spreading of aggression in the group. Wolves engage in social play also as adults to manipulate social relationships. They are able to flexibly adjust their playful interactions to minimize the risk of escalation. Complex cognitive abilities and communicative skills are probably the main proximate causes for the evolution of inter-specific cooperation in wolves.

The impact of capitalist-led neoliberal agenda’s on parents and their children

2020 ◽  
Vol 45 (2) ◽  
pp. 101-108
Author(s):  
Rachael Sanders
Keyword(s):  
Social Relationships ◽  
Social Systems ◽  
Primary Caregivers ◽  
Parent Child Relationship ◽  
Social Morality ◽  
Social Agents ◽  
Child Relationship ◽  
The Social ◽  
Children's Beliefs ◽  
The Impact

AbstractOne of the most important social relationships in any community is that of parent and child. Parents and primary caregivers are typically tasked with raising their children; however, they are but one of many social agents and structures that contribute to childrens’ overall socialisation. Children’s beliefs, values and behaviours are influenced by the broader social systems in which they are raised, including social and economic ideologies. This commentary aims to build an argument based on a broad collection of literature and research, that Australia’s current variegated form of neoliberalism has the potential to create friction within the parent–child relationship, and questions about the social morality of this position are raised.

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