Female mountain goats, Oreamnos americanus , associate according to kinship and reproductive status

Godde, Sophie; Côté, Steeve D.; Réale, Denis

doi:10.1016/j.anbehav.2015.07.005

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“…It is clear for a variety of species that individual preference exists between pairs in many relationships (e.g., chimpanzees, Foerster et al, 2015; mountain goats, Oreamnos americanus, Godde, Côte, & Réale, 2015;bottlenose dolphins, Frère et al, 2011;Wiszniewski, Allen, & Möller, 2009;Wisziewski, Lusseau, & Möller, 2010), and that these relationships likely form before the individuals are sexually and socially mature. Within this study, differences were found between the sexes for juveniles, sub-adults, and adults with respect to non-kin pectoral fin contacts.…”

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Pectoral fin contact as a mechanism for social bonding among dolphins

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“…In other ungulates with female philopatry, the ages of both the daughter and the mother have been found to influence the strengths of their relationships. In a high-density population of red deer, and in mountain goats (Oreamnos americanus), older mothers associated less strongly with their daughters than did younger mothers Godde et al 2015). Alternatively, females' propensities to associate with their daughters may be consistent across multiple offspring.…”

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“…In a number of social ungulate species with higher fission-fusion dynamics, including bison (Bison bison) , wild boar (Sus scrofa) (Kaminski et al 2005), red deer (Cervus elaphus) ) and giraffe (Bercovitch and Berry 2013), mothers continue to associate to some degree with their female offspring following weaning. These associations can persist when daughters reach adulthood in some species, for example mountain goats (Oreamnos americamus) (Godde et al 2015). The separate influences of matrilineal and patrilineal relatedness on female association patterns in higher fission-fusion populations have not been extensively studied.…”

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“…paternal) kin through phenotype matching. We also do not know how the relationship between kinship and association patterns in a population may change depending on whether all females or only females of breeding age are considered, since the associations of sub-adult females can influence these population-wide measures (Godde et al 2015). Similarly, although we have previously demonstrated that pairs who associate more frequently than expected from their space use overlap (referred to as 'preferred associates') are significantly more closely related than expected , it is unclear if this pattern remains significant among adult females alone.…”

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“…The strongest associations within a higher fission-fusion social context often occur between relatives, especially among females where female-biased philopatry occurs. Matrilineal relatedness, in particular relationships between a mother and her daughters, often contributes towards such differentiated social relationships, as seen in bottlenose dolphins (Frère et al 2010b), red deer , mountain goats (Godde et al 2015), and African elephants (Archie et al 2006). Females have sometimes been found to closely associate with their female relatives even when the high spatial overlap among kin is accounted for, as seen in wild boars (Sus scrofa) (Podgórski et al 2014) and giraffe ).…”

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Personalities, social patterns, and reproductive success in female eastern grey kangaroos (Macropus giganteus)

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Sociality evolves when the benefits of grouping outweigh the costs. Living with relatives can sometimes help to offset some of these costs, and fission-fusion dynamics can help to maximize benefits. Individual differences in sociability can exist and such differences have been linked to fitness consequences in several species. Differences in other personality traits, those that show within-individual consistency and significant differences among individuals, can also influence fitness. However, more research is needed on the relationships among personality traits, and their fitness correlates, in natural populations to better understand the adaptive nature of individual differences in personality traits.The overall objective of my PhD was to understand some of the constraints, correlates, and fitness consequences of individual differences in sociability in an herbivorous marsupial, the eastern grey kangaroo (Macropus giganteus). Eastern grey kangaroos forage in open-membership groups that frequently change in size and composition. Females show natal philopatry but not complex cooperative interactions. I conducted field observations of a wild population of eastern grey kangaroos in Sundown National Park in south-east Queensland, Australia, over more than two years. I documented life-history traits, grouping patterns, and behavioural responses of over 240 identified females, and analysed these data in addition to two previous years' worth of data collected by other researchers.My first aim (Chapter 2) was to determine the extent to which females' boldness and sociability measures were consistent over multiple years, and how stable correlations among these traits were across time. I also determined whether females' association patterns could be explained to some degree by similarity in boldness, as measured by flight initiation distance. Individual differences in boldness and two measures of sociability (foraging group size and number of preferred associates) were significantly consistent across four years, and correlations between these traits tended to show consistency over time. Some social assortment between females of similar personalities was observed, but this was not consistent over time, and boldness was not related to preferential associations, suggesting that females were not actively choosing to associate with others based on their similarity in personality.In Chapter 3, I explored the relationships between kinship and association strengths among female kangaroos over four years. I used both biparental genetic relatedness estimates and mother-daughter relationships as measures of kinship, and conducted one set of analyses that considered both adults iii and sub-adults, and one restricted to adult females. Both analyses showed weak, yet significant, positive correlations between association strengths and biparental relatedness for all four years.Mother-daughter status of adult females explained almost twice the variation in pairs' association strengths as did biparental relatedness. Although spac...

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Female mountain goats, Oreamnos americanus , associate according to kinship and reproductive status

Cited by 16 publications

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Pectoral fin contact as a mechanism for social bonding among dolphins

Pectoral fin contact as a mechanism for social bonding among dolphins

Personalities, social patterns, and reproductive success in female eastern grey kangaroos (Macropus giganteus)

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