ReviewPhilosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences2013
Variation in grouping patterns, mating systems and social structure: what socio-ecological models attempt to explain.
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- Social complexity as a driving force of gut microbiota exchange among conspecific hosts in non-human primates.Frontiers in integrative neuroscience · 2022Review
- Comparative ecology of Guinea baboons (Primate biology · 2021Article
- Dominance rank but not body size influences female reproductive success in mountain gorillas.PloS one · 2020Article
- Quadratic relationships between group size and foraging efficiency in a herbivorous primate.Scientific reports · 2018Article
- Proximity and grooming patterns reveal opposite-sex bonding in Rwenzori Angolan colobus monkeys (Colobus angolensis ruwenzorii).Primates; journal of primatology · 2018Article
- Male resource defense mating system in primates? An experimental test in wild capuchin monkeys.PloS one · 2018Article
- Charting the neglected West: The social system of Guinea baboons.American journal of physical anthropology · 2017Article
- Mothers may shape the variations in social organization among gorillas.Royal Society open science · 2016Article
- Group structure predicts variation in proximity relationships between male-female and male-infant pairs of mountain gorillas (Gorilla beringei beringei).Primates; journal of primatology · 2016Article
- Seasonal Changes in Socio-Spatial Structure in a Group of Free-Living Spider Monkeys (Ateles geoffroyi).PloS one · 2016Article
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Abstract
Socio-ecological models aim to predict the variation in social systems based on a limited number of ecological parameters. Since the 1960s, the original model has taken two paths: one relating to grouping patterns and mating systems and one relating to grouping patterns and female social structure. Here, we review the basic ideas specifically with regard to non-human primates, present new results and point to open questions. While most primates live in permanent groups and exhibit female defence polygyny, recent studies indicate more flexibility with cooperative male resource defence occurring repeatedly in all radiations. In contrast to other animals, the potential link between ecology and these mating systems remains, however, largely unexplored. The model of the ecology of female social structure has often been deemed successful, but has recently been criticized. We show that the predicted association of agonistic rates and despotism (directional consistency of relationships) was not supported in a comparative test. The overall variation in despotism is probably due to phylogenetic grade shifts. At the same time, it varies within clades more or less in the direction predicted by the model. This suggests that the model's utility may lie in predicting social variation within but not across clades.
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