ArticleFrontiers in psychology2020
Dynamics of Intersexual Dominance and Adult Sex- Ratio in Wild Vervet Monkeys.
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- Socioecological drivers of injuries and aggression in female and male rhesus macaques (Behavioral ecology and sociobiology · 2025Article
- Loud Call Production in Male Vervet Monkeys (International journal of primatology · 2025Article
- Challenging the contest vs. scramble dichotomy in social competition: mixed conditions allow disparately ranked monkeys to get equivalent food but experiencing more competition still leads to risk-averse decisions.Frontiers in behavioral neuroscience · 2025Article
- Evolutionary Patterns of Intersexual Power.Animals : an open access journal from MDPI · 2023Article
- Monkeys who experience more feeding competition utilize social information to learn foraging skills faster.Scientific reports · 2023Article
- Female emancipation in a male dominant, sexually dimorphic primate under natural conditions.PloS one · 2021Article
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Abstract
Intersexual dominance relations are important for female mammals, because of their consequences for accessing food and for the degree of sexual control females experience from males. Female mammals are usually considered to rank below males in the dominance hierarchy, because of their typical physical inferiority. Yet, in some groups or species, females are nonetheless dominant over some males (partial female dominance). Intersexual dominance, therefore, also depends on traits other than sexual dimorphism, such as social support, social exchange, group adult sex-ratio, and the widespread self-reinforcing effects of winning and losing fights, the "winner-loser effect." The importance of sex-ratio and the winner-loser effect remains poorly understood. A theoretical model, DomWorld, predicts that in groups with a higher proportion of males, females are dominant over more males when aggression is fierce (not mild). The model is based on a small number of general processes in mammals, such as grouping, aggression, the winner-loser effect, the initially greater fighting capacity of males than females, and sex ratio. We expect its predictions to be general and suggest they be examined in a great number of species and taxa. Here, we test these predictions in four groups of wild vervet monkeys (
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