Social play in crested and japanese macaques: Testing the covariation hypothesis

Petit, Odile; Bertrand, Frédèric; Thierry, Bernard

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“…All of our study species showed a negative relationship between scores on the Sociability personality dimension and age. This relationship again reflects the playfulness component of Sociability, one of the most important components of this dimension; it is well known that young primates in general play more than adults (Petit et al 2008), and this has been demonstrated for other Macaca spp. (Caine and Mitchell 1979;Ciani et al 2012) and S. sciureus (Baldwin 1969;Biben, 1998).…”

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“…Male M. nigra and S. sciureus also scored higher on Sociability than females, which probably reflects the playfulness component of Sociability because males at all ages generally spend more time playing than females, and females withdraw from play behavior much earlier than males as they begin to travel, forage, and rest more with adult females (Baldwin 1969;Biben 1998;Petit et al 2008). All of our study species showed a negative relationship between scores on the Sociability personality dimension and age.…”

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Comparative Personality Assessment of Three Captive Primate Species: Macaca nigra, Macaca sylvanus, and Saimiri sciureus

2015

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Comparative studies of primate personality offer informative insights into the evolutionary origins of personality structure in primate species. Primate personality research has, however, focused on a limited number of species. We investigated personality in three relatively understudied species: Sulawesi black crested macaques (Macaca nigra), Barbary macaques (Macaca sylvanus), and common squirrel monkeys (Saimiri sciureus). We sent a 38-item questionnaire to all European zoological institutions holding the study species and keepers were required to rate individuals on all items. Assessments achieved good levels of interrater reliability. Principal components analysis (PCA) revealed Sociability and Dominance personality dimensions in all study species, an Emotionality dimension in both M. nigra and M. sylvanus, a Cautiousness dimension in S. sciureus, and a Human-Animal Sociability dimension in M. sylvanus. Sociability and Dominance dimensions were shown to have good construct validity, as assessed through appropriate relationships with sex and age and correlations with behavioral measures. The Sociability, Dominance, Emotionality, and Cautiousness dimensions were comparable with analogous dimensions in other primate species but aggressive-type traits did not load onto the Dominance dimension in the two Macaca spp. We suggest that this may be attributed to their more tolerant social systems compared to those of other primate species. The Human-Animal Sociability dimension could not be compared with other primate studies as, to date, there has been limited Int J Primatol investigation of human-directed personality dimensions in captive primates. Our findings suggest that the two Macaca species are more similar to each other, in terms of their personality structure, than either is to S. sciureus, which suggests phylogenetic similarity is an important predictor of personality. However, further comparative analysis of a wider range of primate species is needed to inform theories regarding the evolution of primate personality structure.

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confidence: 93%

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Comparative Personality Assessment of Three Captive Primate Species: Macaca nigra, Macaca sylvanus, and Saimiri sciureus

2015

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“…In some cercopithecine species, the use and structure of particular facial expressions can converge as a function of their species‐typical baseline levels of tolerance and affiliation (Thierry et al ., ; Petit, Bertrand & Thierry, ). For example, in crested macaques ( Macaca nigra ), mandrills ( Mandrillus sphinx ) and geladas, the FPF is not a more intense version of PF but derives from the convergence between PF and the silent‐bared teeth display, a facial expression used for affinitive purposes (van Hooff & Preuschoft, ; Bout & Thierry, ).…”

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Rough‐and‐tumble play as a window on animal communication

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Rough-and-tumble play (RT) is a widespread phenomenon in mammals. Since it involves competition, whereby one animal attempts to gain advantage over another, RT runs the risk of escalation to serious fighting. Competition is typically curtailed by some degree of cooperation and different signals help negotiate potential mishaps during RT. This review provides a framework for such signals, showing that they range along two dimensions: one from signals borrowed from other functional contexts to those that are unique to play, and the other from purely emotional expressions to highly cognitive (intentional) constructions. Some animal taxa have exaggerated the emotional and cognitive interplay aspects of play signals, yielding admixtures of communication that have led to complex forms of RT. This complexity has been further exaggerated in some lineages by the development of specific novel gestures that can be used to negotiate playful mood and entice reluctant partners. Play-derived gestures may provide new mechanisms by which more sophisticated communication forms can evolve. Therefore, RT and playful communication provide a window into the study of social cognition, emotional regulation and the evolution of communication systems.

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“…Differences in social structure, namely social tolerance among females, have been linked to differences in e.g. play behaviour [37], [38], patterns of migration [39] and group decision-making [7], [8]. The lack of age and rank effects on the frequency of movement initiation and the lacking relation between social bonding patterns and the joining order observed in Tonkean macaques has been suggested to result from their high degree of social tolerance and the lack of kin preference in social behaviour.…”

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The Organization of Collective Group Movements in Wild Barbary Macaques (Macaca sylvanus): Social Structure Drives Processes of Group Coordination in Macaques

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Social animals have to coordinate activities and collective movements to benefit from the advantages of group living. Animals in large groups maintain cohesion by self-organization processes whereas in smaller groups consensus decisions can be reached. Where consensus decisions are relevant leadership may emerge. Variation in the organization of collective movements has been linked to variation in female social tolerance among macaque species ranging from despotic to egalitarian. Here we investigated the processes underlying group movements in a wild macaque species characterized by a degree of social tolerance intermediate to previously studied congeneric species. We focused on processes before, during and after the departure of the first individual. To this end, we observed one group of wild Barbary macaques (Macaca sylvanus) in the Middle Atlas, Morocco using all-occurrence behaviour sampling of 199 collective movements. We found that initiators of a collective movement usually chose the direction in which more individuals displayed pre-departure behavior. Dominant individuals contributed to group movements more than subordinates, especially juveniles, measured as frequencies of successful initiations and pre-departure behaviour. Joining was determined by affiliative relationships and the number of individuals that already joined the movement (mimetism). Thus, in our study group partially shared consensus decisions mediated by selective mimetism seemed to be prevalent, overall supporting the suggestion that a species’ social style affects the organization of group movements. As only the most tolerant species show equally shared consensus decisions whereas in others the decision is partially shared with a bias to dominant individuals the type of consensus decisions seems to follow a stepwise relation. Joining order may also follow a stepwise, however opposite, relationship, because dominance only determined joining in highly despotic, but not in intermediate and tolerant species.

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Social play in crested and japanese macaques: Testing the covariation hypothesis

Cited by 53 publications

References 36 publications

Comparative Personality Assessment of Three Captive Primate Species: Macaca nigra, Macaca sylvanus, and Saimiri sciureus

Comparative Personality Assessment of Three Captive Primate Species: Macaca nigra, Macaca sylvanus, and Saimiri sciureus

Rough‐and‐tumble play as a window on animal communication

The Organization of Collective Group Movements in Wild Barbary Macaques (Macaca sylvanus): Social Structure Drives Processes of Group Coordination in Macaques

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