Social Structure Among Vervet Monkeys (Cercopithecus Aethiops)

Struhsaker, Thomas T.

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“…Adult males have a red penis, and a blue/green scrotum (Darwin, 1871) which they display to other males in a characteristic 'red, white and blue display' in which a dominant male walks around a submissive male with his tail raised (Henzi, 1985;Struhsaker, 1967). Sub-species differ in blue coloration, from white or pale blue, via sky blue, to blueviolet (Osman Hill, 1966), and also in how maturation affects blue colour: blue becomes lighter with age in both Chlorocebus aethiops pygerythrus and C. a. sabaeus males, but the former become bluer while the latter become less blue with increasing age (Cramer et al, 2013).…”

Section: Vervetsmentioning

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Color in competition contexts in non-human animals

Setchell¹

2015

Handbook of Color Psychology

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Section: Vervetsmentioning

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Color in competition contexts in non-human animals

Setchell¹

2015

Handbook of Color Psychology

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“…Sonerud 1985;Nilsson et al 1991). Alternatively reusing the same sleeping sites may allow more efficient detection of resident predators (Dow & Fredga 1983) and provide a better knowledge escape routes (Struhsaker 1967;Di Bitetti et al 2000). Behavior whilst entering, in, or leaving a sleeping site may influence the pattern of reuse.…”

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Long‐term patterns of sleeping site use in wild saddleback (Saguinus fuscicollis) and mustached tamarins (S. mystax): Effects of foraging, thermoregulation, predation, and resource defense constraints

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Huck

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American J Phys Anthropol

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Sleeping sites are an important aspect of an animal's ecology given the length of time that they spend in them. The sleep ecology of wild saddleback and mustached tamarins is examined using a long‐term data set covering three mixed‐species troops and 1,300+ tamarin nights. Seasonal changes in photoperiod accounted for a significant amount of variation in sleeping site entry and exit times. Time of exit was more closely correlated with sunrise than time of entry was with sunset. Both species entered their sleeping sites when light levels were significantly higher than when they left them in the morning. Troops of both species used >80 individual sites, the majority being used once. Mustached tamarins never used the same site for more than two consecutive nights, but saddlebacks reused the same site for up to four consecutive nights. Mustached tamarins slept at significantly greater heights than saddleback tamarins. There were consistent interspecific differences in the types of sites used. Neither the presence of infants, season, nor rainfall affected the types or heights of sites chosen. Sleeping sites were located in the central area of exclusive use more often than expected, and their position with respect to fruiting trees indicated a strategy closer to that of a multiple central place forager than a central place forager. These findings are discussed in light of species ecology, with particular reference to predation risk, which is indicated as the major factor influencing the pattern of sleeping site use in these species. Am J Phys Anthropol 2007. © 2007 Wiley‐Liss, Inc.

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“…Some of the earliest applications of molecular techniques in primate behavioral studies were thus directly concerned with evaluating the genetic mating system realized in a population and with investigating the effects of behavioral variables (e.g., dominance rank, mating tactics) and demographic variables (e.g., number of competitors, estrus synchrony among females) on individual fitness. In fact, the question of whether and how male dominance rank and reproductive success are linked has long been of central interest to primatologists, since male dominance hierarchies were so conspicuous among the species of cercopithecine primates that were the focus of many early primatological studies (e.g., Altmann, 1962;Hall and DeVore, 1965;Sade, 1967;Struhsaker, 1967).…”

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Molecular genetic approaches to the study of primate behavior, social organization, and reproduction

Fiore

2003

Am. J. Phys. Anthropol.

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In the past several decades, the development of novel molecular techniques and the advent of noninvasive DNA sampling, coupled with the ease and speed with which molecular analyses can now be performed, have made it possible for primatologists to directly examine the fitness effects of individual behavior and to explore how variation in behavior and social systems influences primate population genetic structure. This review describes the theoretical connections between individual behavior and primate social systems on the one hand and population genetic structure on the other, discusses the kinds of molecular markers typically employed in genetic studies of primates, and summarizes what primatologists have learned from molecular studies over the past few decades about dispersal patterns, mating systems, reproductive strategies, and the influence of kinship on social behavior. Several important conclusions can be drawn from this overview. First, genetic data confirm that, in many species, male dominance rank and fitness are positively related, at least over the short term, though this relationship need not simply be a reflection of malemale contest competition over mates. More importantly, genetic research reveals the significance of female choice in determining male reproductive success, and documents the efficacy of alternative mating tactics among males. Second, genetic data suggest that the presumed importance of kinship in structuring primate social relationships needs to be evaluated further, at least for some taxa such as chimpanzees in which demographic factors may be more important than relatedness. I conclude this paper by offering several suggestions of additional ways in which molecular techniques might be employed in behavioral and ecological studies of primates (e.g., for conducting "molecular censuses" of unhabituated populations, for studying disease and host-parasite interactions, or for tracking seed fate in studies of seed dispersal) and by providing a brief introduction to the burgeoning field of nonhuman primate behavioral genetics. Yrbk Phys Anthropol 46:62-99, 2003.

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Social Structure Among Vervet Monkeys (Cercopithecus Aethiops)

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Color in competition contexts in non-human animals

Color in competition contexts in non-human animals

Long‐term patterns of sleeping site use in wild saddleback (Saguinus fuscicollis) and mustached tamarins (S. mystax): Effects of foraging, thermoregulation, predation, and resource defense constraints

Molecular genetic approaches to the study of primate behavior, social organization, and reproduction

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