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Showing 1 to 10 of 10 for “"Tibetan macaques"”.
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Sexual Behavior of Immature Tibetan Macaques (<i>Macaca thibetana</i>)
<p>Tibetan macaque sociosexual behavior begins in infancy, and comprises many of their initial interactions with other group members as infants. Tibetan macaques possess a large sociosexual behavioral repertoire, including a behavior called bridging, which involves infants and juveniles, and is …
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Playing with Relatives: Genetic Kinship and Play Behavior in Juvenile Tibetan Macaques
… kinship and social play duration in juvenile Tibetan macaques.</p> <p>Chapter I provides a general introduction and addresses current and past literature on the behavior, ecology and play among macaque genera and Tibetan macaques within this study. I review the fitness benefits of play …
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Mother-Offspring Relationships in Tibetan Macaques (<i>Macaca thibetana</i>) at Mt. Huangshan, China
… known about the mother-offspring relationship of Tibetan macaques (<em>Macaca thibetana</em>) from the two habituated sites in China, Mt. Emei and Mt. Huangshan. In 1991, researchers at Mt. Emei focused on maternal behaviors and found a female-infant bias across the group. It is imperative to …
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Collective Decision Making in Tibetan Macaques: How Followers Affect the Rules and Efficiency of Group Movement
… successful group movement in the YA1 group of Tibetan macaques (<em>Macaca thibetana</em>) at Mt. Huangshan National Reserve in Anhui, China. We used structural equation modeling (SEM) to determine the relative influences of sex, age, maternal kinship, dominance, and social network centrality …
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Female Social Connectivity through the Leadership and Movement Progression of Tibetan Macaques at Mt. Huangshan, China
… and progression of collective movements of Tibetan macaques (<em>Macaca thibetana</em>) found in Mt. Huangshan, China. I gathered information on their movements and social networks through all-occurrence, focal and scan sampling. I hypothesize that high-ranking females lead more collective …
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Provisioning and Its Effects on the Social Interactions of Tibetan Macaques (<i>Macaca Thibetana</i>) at Mt. Huangshan, China
<p>The dispersal patterns of food resources has a significant effect on the composition of primate groups and social interactions within those groups. Humans often alter the dispersal of food. Non-humans often use affiliative behaviors to elicit tolerance or support from other group members. I …
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Play in Immature Tibetan Macaques (<i>Macaca thibetana</i>): Location, Use of Play Signals, and Play Bout Termination at Mt. Huangshan, China
… play signals, and play bout termination in Tibetan macaques (<em>Macaca thibetana</em>) during immature social play. I gathered video data at the Valley of the Wild Monkeys, Mt. Huangshan, China, and focused on 21 juvenile and infant macaques (zero to five years of age). I used an all …
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The Development of Social Behavior in the Tibetan Macaque (<i>Macaca thibetana</i>)
… play and social behavior in infant and juvenile Tibetan macaques (<em>Macaca thibetana</em>) at Mt. Huangshan, China, I made comparisons of these social behavioral frequencies across ages. I found consistent relationships between social behavioral frequencies, specifically grooming, bridging, and …
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Re-Evaluating Captive Chimpanzee “Dominance”: Dominance Hierarchy and Chimpanzee-Caregiver Relationships at Chimpanzee Sanctuary Northwest
… social behaviors in captive chimpanzees and wild Tibetan macaques. These results indicated context-dependent dominance and individual social roles in the captive chimpanzee group, one broadly defined dominance structure in the Tibetan macaque group, and high within-context analysis reliability but …
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The Impact of Web-Based Visitor Education on Human-Tibetan Macaque (<i>Macaca thibetana</i>) Interactions at Mt. Huangshan, China
… number of randomized days. I recorded visitor-Tibetan macaque (<em>Macaca thibetana</em>) behaviors on all days using human and macaque ethograms. Past researchers at this site found positive correlations between decibel levels and macaque SDBs, as such decibel levels were recorded daily. I …