The influence of kinship and dominance hierarchy on grooming partner choice in free-ranging Macaca mulatta brevicaudus

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作者：
Cheng-Feng Wu
Zhi-Jie Liao
Cedric Sueur
John Chih Mun Sha
Jie Zhang
Peng Zhang
机构：
[1] Sun Yat-sen University,Martin Hall, Anthropology Department, School of Sociology and Anthropology
[2] Sun Yat-sen University,Provincial Key Laboratory of Human Evolution and Archaeometry
[3] Sun Yat-sen University,College of Life Sciences
[4] Université de Strasbourg,undefined
[5] CNRS,undefined
[6] IPHC,undefined
[7] UMR 7178,undefined
[8] Nanwan Monkey Islet,undefined
来源：
Primates | 2018年 / 59卷
关键词：
Aggression; Dominance rank; Kin preference; Rhesus macaque; Seyfarth’s model;
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摘要：
In group-living animals, individuals do not interact uniformly with their conspecifics. Among primates, such heterogeneity in partner choice can be discerned from affiliative grooming patterns. While the preference for selecting close kin as grooming partners is ubiquitous across the primate order, the selection of higher-ranking non-kin individuals as grooming partners is less common. We studied a group of provisioned rhesus macaques (Macaca mulatta brevicaudus) on Hainan Island, China, to examine rank-related benefits of grooming exchanges and the influence of kin relationships. We tested four hypotheses based on Seyfarth’s model: (1) there will be kin preference in grooming relationships; (2) grooming between non-kin individuals will be directed up the dominance rank; (3) grooming between non-kin individuals will reduce aggression from higher-ranking ones; and (4) non-kin individuals will spend more time grooming with adjacent ranked ones. We found that grooming relationships between kin individuals were stronger than those between non-kin individuals. For non-kin relationships, lower-ranking individuals received less aggression from higher-ranking ones through grooming; a benefit they could not derive through grooming exchanges with individuals related by kinship. Individuals spent more time grooming adjacent higher-ranking non-kin individuals and higher-ranking individuals also received more grooming from non-kin individuals. Our results supported Seyfarth’s model for predicting partner choice between non-kin individuals. For relationships between kin individuals, we found results that were not consistent with prediction for the exchanges of aggression and grooming, indicating the importance to control for the influence of kinship in future studies.
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