ArticleAnimal behaviour2013
Role of Grooming in Reducing Tick Load in Wild Baboons (
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- Data release: targeted systematic literature search for tick and tick-borne pathogen distributions in six countries in sub-Saharan Africa from 1901 to 2020.Parasites & vectors · 2024Pooled it
- Social status and parasitism in male and female vertebrates: a meta-analysis.Scientific reports · 2018Pooled it
- Ticks and fleas of the critically endangered mountain pygmy-possum (International journal for parasitology. Parasites and wildlife · 2026Article
- Human presence exerts sex-biased effects on the activity budgets of temple rhesus macaques in the Pashupatinath Area, Nepal.Journal of animal behaviour and biometeorology · 2026Article
- Spatial variation in detachment rates of larval Ixodes ricinus from a common host (Apodemus sylvaticus): an experiment.Experimental & applied acarology · 2025Article
- Social ageing can protect against infectious disease in a group-living primate.Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 2024Article
- Occurrence of multiple infections of rodents with parasites and bacteria in the Sibang Arboretum, Libreville, Gabon.Veterinary world · 2024Article
- Social ageing can protect against infectious disease in a group-living primate.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2024Article
- Comparative genome-wide identification and characterization of SET domain-containing and JmjC domain-containing proteins in piroplasms.BMC genomics · 2024Article
- Trade-offs between sociality and gastrointestinal parasite infection in the context of a natural disaster.Animal behaviour · 2024Article
- Programmed Grooming after 30 Years of Study: A Review of Evidence and Future Prospects.Animals : an open access journal from MDPI · 2024Review
- How behavioural ageing affects infectious disease.Neuroscience and biobehavioral reviews · 2023Review
- Ectoparasites associated with the Bushveld gerbil (Parasitology · 2023Article
- Engineering broad-spectrum inhibitors of inflammatory chemokines from subclass A3 tick evasins.Nature communications · 2023Article
- Genetic variance and indirect genetic effects for affiliative social behavior in a wild primate.Evolution; international journal of organic evolution · 2023Article
- Anti-predator strategies of adult male Central Himalayan Langurs (Semnopithecus schistaceus) in response to domestic dogs in a human-dominated landscape.Primates; journal of primatology · 2023Article
- Friends in high places: Interspecific grooming between chimpanzees and primate prey species in Budongo Forest.Primates; journal of primatology · 2023Review
- Rickettsia conorii Subspecies israelensis in Captive Baboons.Emerging infectious diseases · 2023Article
- Survey of ticks and tick-borne pathogens in wild chimpanzee habitat in Western Uganda.Parasites & vectors · 2023Article
- Assessing Variation in the Individual-Level Impacts of a Multihost Pathogen.Transboundary and emerging diseases · 2023Article
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Abstract
Nonhuman primate species spend a conspicuous amount of time grooming during social interactions, a behavior that probably serves both social and health-related functions. While the social implications of grooming have been relatively well studied, less attention has been paid to the health benefits, especially the removal of ectoparasites, which may act as vectors in disease transmission. In this study, we examined the relationship between grooming behavior, tick load (number of ticks), and haemoprotozoan infection status in a population of wild free-ranging baboons (
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