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Using observational data from three troops of habituated wild vervet monkeys (Chlorocebus pygerythrus) and multilevel Bayesian models, I tested three explanations of how non-adult individuals in a non- linguistic species come to cooperate by participating in intergroup conflict. I first explored how individual attributes, social network position, and situational factors influence the likelihood and intensity of participation. I also tested how participation in intergroup conflict predicts whether non-adults will be groomed and if they will be groomed by their mothers. Thirdly, I investigated how similarities in intragroup social network and intergroup conflict participation network structures vary between the sexes across time. 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