ArticleNew directions for child and adolescent development2021
Parenting costs time: Changes in pair bond maintenance across pregnancy and infant rearing in a monogamous primate (Plecturocebus cupreus).
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- Re-wiring of the bonded brain: Gene expression among pair bonded female prairie voles changes as they transition to motherhood.Genes, brain, and behavior · 2024Article
- Expression of bond-related behaviors affects titi monkey responsiveness to oxytocin and vasopressin treatments.Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences · 2024Article
- Titi monkey father-daughter bond-related behaviors explain stress response variability.Psychoneuroendocrinology · 2023Article
- Intranasal oxytocin does not change partner preference in female titi monkeys (Plecturocebus cupreus), but intranasal vasopressin decreases it.Journal of neuroendocrinology · 2023Article
- Survival rates and mortality risks of Plecturocebus cupreus at the California National Primate Research Center.American journal of primatology · 2023Article
- Room size and offspring presence impact pair-bonded primate affiliation.Applied animal behaviour science · 2023Article
- Parental experience is linked with lower vasopressin receptor 1a binding and decreased postpartum androgens in titi monkeys.Journal of neuroendocrinology · 2023Article
- Motherhood and DREADD manipulation of the nucleus accumbens weaken established pair bonds in female prairie voles.Hormones and behavior · 2023Article
- Pairing status and stimulus type predict responses to audio playbacks in female titi monkeys.Frontiers in ecology and evolution · 2023Article
- Parenting costs time: Changes in pair bond maintenance across pregnancy and infant rearing in a monogamous primate (Plecturocebus cupreus).New directions for child and adolescent development · 2021Article
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Abstract
Relationships support social animals' health, but maintaining relationships is challenging. When transitioning to parenthood, new parents balance pair-bond maintenance with infant care. We studied pair-bond maintenance via affiliation in 22 adult titi monkey pairs (Plecturocebus cupreus) for 16 months centered around their first offspring's birth. Pair affiliation peaked during pregnancy, decreased across the postpartum period, and rose after reaching minimum affiliation 32.6 weeks postpartum. Pairs in which fathers carry infants more than average had lower affiliation at the infant's birth and return to an increase in affiliation sooner. Parents of infants who were slow to independence had higher rates of affiliation. Titi monkey infants actively prefer their fathers; mothers may avoid their infant-carrying mate, suggesting infants play an active role in parental affiliative decline. Our data supports previous findings that affiliation between partners declines following an infant's birth, but demonstrates new knowledge about the extent and duration of affiliative decline.
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