Kinship promotes affiliative behaviors in a monkey
Autor: | Kang Huang, Dunn W Derek, Haitao Zhao, Chengliang Wang, Xiaowei Wang, Ruliang Pan, Songtao Guo, Baoguo Li, Bin Yang, Xiaoguang Qi, Fangfang Li, Yi Ren |
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Rok vydání: | 2017 |
Předmět: |
0106 biological sciences
Rhinopithecus roxellana golden snub-nosed monkey biology 05 social sciences Inclusive fitness social sciences Articles biology.organism_classification Affect (psychology) 010603 evolutionary biology 01 natural sciences humanities affiliative behavior Kinship Omus behavior and behavior mechanisms Mantel test partition mantel test 0501 psychology and cognitive sciences Animal Science and Zoology 050102 behavioral science & comparative psychology Golden snub-nosed monkey kinship Demography |
Zdroj: | Current Zoology |
ISSN: | 1674-5507 |
Popis: | In social mammals, kinship is an important factor that often affects the interactions among individuals within groups. In primates that live in a multilevel society, kinship may affect affiliative patterns between individuals at different scales within the larger group. For this study, we use field observations and molecular methods to reveal the profiles of how kinship affects affiliative behaviors between individuals in a breeding band of wild golden snub-nosed monkeys (Rhinopithecus roxellana). We use a novel nonparametric test, the partition Mantel test, to measure independently the correlation between kinship and each of three affiliative behaviors. Our results show that more closely related females are more likely to groom each other. Average relatedness between adult females within the same one-male unit (OMU) is higher than that between adult females from different OMUs. We suggest that closely related females may reside in the same OMU in order to attain inclusive fitness benefits, and that kinship plays an important role in maintaining the social structure of this species. |
Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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