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Although it has been suggested that feeding competition, aggression, and predator avoidance determine the size and composition of primate social groups, several recent studies of primate socioecology have highlighted the role of cooperation and affiliation in determining the costs and benefits of social grouping patterns. I conducted a detailed field study of subgrouping patterns, social affiliation, and ecology in two neighboring groups of black and gold howler monkeys ( Alouatta caraya) in Northern Argentina from April 2003 to December 2004. The study took place on Isla Brasilera, 290 ha, 27° 20'S and 58° 40'W in northern Argentina. I tested a series of hypotheses concerning how factors such as social dominance, individual spacing, feeding competition, changes in food availability, partner preferences, and the development of male-male, male-female, and female-female social bonds affect social subgroup size and composition, and mating patterns. 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