Play behavior in immature moor macaques (Macaca maura) and Japanese macaques (Macaca fuscata).

Autor: Beltrán Francés V; Fundació UdG: Innovació i Formació, Universitat de Girona, Girona, Spain., Castellano-Navarro A; Ethology and Animal Welfare Section, Universidad Cardenal Herrera-CEU, CEU Universities, Valencia, Spain., Illa Maulany R; Forestry Department, Hasanuddin University, Makassar, Sulawesi, Indonesia., Ngakan PO; Forestry Department, Hasanuddin University, Makassar, Sulawesi, Indonesia., MacIntosh AJJ; Primate Research Institute, Kyoto University, Aichi, Japan., Llorente M; Facultat d'Educació i Psicologia, Universitat de Girona, Girona, Spain.; Unitat de Recerca i Etologia, Fundació Mona, Riudellots de la Selva, Spain.; Institut de Recerca i Estudis en Primatologia (IPRIM), Girona, Spain., Amici F; Research Group Primate Behavioral Ecology, Department of Human Behavior, Ecology and Culture, Max-Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig, Germany.; Behavioral Ecology Research Group, Institute of Biology, Faculty of Life Science, University of Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany.
Jazyk: angličtina
Zdroj: American journal of primatology [Am J Primatol] 2020 Oct; Vol. 82 (10), pp. e23192. Date of Electronic Publication: 2020 Sep 03.
DOI: 10.1002/ajp.23192
Abstrakt: Play is widespread across mammalian taxa, but species strongly vary in the ways they play. In less despotic primate species (i.e., with less steep dominance hierarchies, less severe conflicts, and more reconciliation), play has been described as being more frequent, cooperative, and freely expressed. To study the link between social play and dominance style, we compared play behavior in free-ranging infants, juveniles and subadults of more despotic Japanese macaques (Macaca fuscata, N = 24) and less despotic moor macaques (Macaca maura, N = 17). We found interspecific differences in play behavior that corresponded with the contrasting dominance styles of the study species, largely confirming our predictions. In particular, moor macaques spent a larger proportion of time in solitary and social play than Japanese macaques, while Japanese macaques spent a larger proportion of time in grooming interactions. In moor macaques, play sessions included more players, a larger variety of play behaviors, greater play face rates, a greater proportion of time in contact play, and a higher rate of reciprocal play-biting than in Japanese macaques. Aggressive escalations were not common, but more frequent in Japanese macaques. Finally, a higher frequency of play faces during play sessions predicted the occurrence of more reciprocal play-bites, but not the proportion of time spent in contact play behaviors. Additional studies on other groups and species will allow a better understanding of the link between dominance style and social play.
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