Provider: Moravian Museum, Brno, Czech Republic

TY  - JOUR
JO  - Anthropologie (Brno)
TI  - Group History and Social Style: The Case of Crab-Eating Monkeys
AU  - Butovskaya M
Y1  - 1996
VL  - 34
IS  - 1-2
PB  - Moravian Museum, Brno, Czech Republic
SN  - 0323-1119
SP  - 1
EP  - 10
KW  - Macaques
KW  - Birth-rank
KW  - Dominance
KW  - Aggression
KW  - Affiliation
N2  - 
N2  - Two groups of crab-eating monkeys, one formed of individuals whose mothers were high-ranking, another comprising animals whose mothers' status was low, are used to test the hypothesis of a between-group systemic variation of social relationships within a species. Using a multivariate analysis of 17 variables it is demonstrated that rank by birth affects several inter-related traits of aggressive, affiliative, and cooperative behaviour of animals regardless of their actual rank. Females whose inborn status was high exhibited a more masculine, assertive, and dominant behavioural style, were more individualistic and less dependent on other group members. Our results suggest that group history can produce a systemic effect on social relationships in conspecific populations.
ER  -