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Play and development of social skills in infant rhesus macaques
The purpose of this study was to monitor the development of playful and socially skilled behaviours in infant rhesus monkeys (Macaca mulatta) in order to discover whether there was any relationship between them. Important factors of rhesus social organization: genetic relationship, dominance rank, …
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Sexual Behavior of Immature Tibetan Macaques (<i>Macaca thibetana</i>)
… 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 found in only four species. Immature macaques differ in the types, rate, and partner preferences across a …
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FACTORS AFFECTING RATES OF SOCIAL BUFFERING IN JUVENILE RHESUS MACAQUES (Macaca mulatta)
… et al., 2003). A total of 31 male rhesus macaques (mean age of 2 years) were videotaped during a Novel Cage Test with and without their homecage partner, and immediately following, blood samples were collected under anesthesia. Subjects were either reared with mothers and peers (mother …
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Infant and Juvenile-Directed Care Behaviors in Adult Toque Macaques, Macaca Sinica
The identity of care-givers, and the distribution of care to young are examined in a free-ranging polygynous primate, Macaca sinica. Care behavior is used as one measure of investment in young. There is no evidence that dominance rank influences offspring sex, but high-ranking mothers provide more …
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Sperm Competition and the Function of Masturbation in Japanese Macaques (Macaca fuscata)
… non-human primates in general, and in Japanese macaques (Macaca fuscata) in particular, from the perspective of behavioural ecology. In an interspecific comparison of 52 primate species, male masturbation was found to be a common behaviour that correlates more strongly to species that exhibit a …
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Playing with Relatives: Genetic Kinship and Play Behavior in Juvenile Tibetan Macaques
… 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 behavior and …
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Dyadic Spatial Relationships in Pigtail and Stumptail Macaques: A Multiple Regression Analysis
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Inferring social structure and dominance relationships between rhesus macaques using RFID tracking data
… social interactions in a group of rhesus macaques (a species of monkey). These social interactions are considered as independent affiliative and dominative components and are characterized by a variety of visual and auditory displays and gestures. Social structure in a group is an …
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The socio-endocrinology of female reproductive strategies in wild Assamese macaques (Macaca assamensis)
Sexueller Konflikt ist ein typisches Merkmal von Tieren in gemischten Geschlechtergruppen, und treibt die Evolution von geschlechtsspezifischen Reproduktionsstrategien. Aufgrund divergierender reproduktiver Optima, sollten Männchen untereinander konkurrieren, um möglichst viele Weibchen zu …
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Sex differences in glycosylated hemoglobin in Mauritian origin long-tailed macaques (Macaca fascicularis)
… process can occur in primates. Long-tailed macaques (<em>Macaca fascicularis</em>) range throughout Southeast Asia and were introduced to Mauritius approximately 400 years ago. This genetically unique population has been the source of a large proportion of captive individuals used in …
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Mother-Infant Interactions in a Free-Ranging Population of Pigtail Macaques (Macaca nemestrina)
… I focused on interactions of Southern pigtail macaques to better understand mother-infant relationships. I observed five to six mother-infant dyads from April 2016 to September 2016 in the Segari Melintang Forest Reserve, Perak, Peninsular Malaysia. I used focal sampling methods to score mother …
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The distribution of allogrooming among female Japanese macaques (<i>Macaca Fuscata Yakui</i>)
… of allo-grooming among female Japanese macaques (<i>Macaca fuscata yakui</i>): environmental variables, seasonal changes in food abundance and group size. This study also aimed to analyse some possible benefits of allo-grooming, namely, the reciprocation of allo-grooming (considered to …
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Factors Affecting Focal Cerebral Ischemic Infarction: Inferences from Experimental Modelling in Macaques and Murines
Stroke is a leading cause of morbidity and mortality in North America. There has been an evolution in treatment and assessment of ischemic stroke over the last 30 years, related to formation of hospital acute stroke teams that provide thrombolytic therapy and endovascular thrombectomy. A challenge …
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Mother-Offspring Relationships in Tibetan Macaques (<i>Macaca thibetana</i>) at Mt. Huangshan, China
… 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 study both …
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Quantitative Genetics of Life History Microevolution in the Cayo Santiago Rhesus Macaques (Macaca Mulatta)
… of a large colony of free-ranging rhesus macaques on Cayo Santiago, a small island located just off the coast of Puerto Rico. It focuses on documenting genetic and environmental influences on life history variation in female primates. The results are discussed in terms of understanding …
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