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Author Chapais, B.; Girard, M.; Primi, G.
Title Non-kin alliances, and the stability of matrilineal dominance relations in Japanese macaques Type Journal Article
Year 1991 Publication (down) Animal Behaviour. Abbreviated Journal Anim. Behav.
Volume 41 Issue 3 Pages 481-491
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Abstract Alliances among kin play a major role in a female's acquisition of her mother's dominance rank in many species of cercopithecines. It is noteworthy, however, that kin rarely form coalitions to challenge females from higher-ranking matrilines, and that matrilineal hierarchies are remarkably stable. One possible reason for the rarity of destabilizing coalitions is that members of high-ranking matrilines form alliances against lower ranking ones. In this paper the patterning of aggressive support among non-kin, and its effect on the stability of rank relations are analysed in a captive group of Japanese macaques, Macaca fuscata, composed of three unrelated matrilines. Analysis of the distribution of non-kin interventions in conflicts between matrilines over a 52-month period revealed a clear pattern of preferential support between the two dominant matrilines against the third-ranking one. This pattern was confirmed experimentally. Any member of the two dominant matrilines was unable, individually, to maintain its rank above the third-ranking matriline, but was able to do so in the presence of the other dominant matriline. Non-kin alliances appear to prevent subordinate females from challenging higher ranking females through revolutionary coalitions (formed among subordinates) or through bridging coalitions (formed among individuals ranking above and below the target). Non-kin support is interpreted in terms of cooperation versus reciprocal altruism.
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Author Boesch, C.
Title Teaching among wild chimpanzees Type Journal Article
Year 1991 Publication (down) Animal Behaviour. Abbreviated Journal Anim. Behav.
Volume 41 Issue 3 Pages 530-532
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Call Number Equine Behaviour @ team @ Serial 4707
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Author Judge, P.J.
Title Dyadic and triadic reconciliation in pigtail macaques (Macaca nemestrina) Type Journal Article
Year 1991 Publication (down) Am. J. Primatol. Abbreviated Journal
Volume 23 Issue Pages 225-237
Keywords reconciliation • kinship • affiliation • aggression
Abstract The tendency in primates for former antagonists to approach and affiliate following aggression has been termed reconciliation because the response is thought to resolve social conflicts produced by aggression. In primate societies, however, an aggressive interaction between two individuals often spreads to include other group members, especially the kin of the combatants. If post conflict affiliation resolves aggressive conflicts in a group, then affiliative increases might occur between combatants and the kin of their opponents following aggression as well as between former opponents. This hypothesis was tested in a captive group of 39 pigtail macaques (Macaca nemestrina) by comparing affiliative response frequencies of combatants during the 5 minute period following aggression to affiliative response frequencies during 5 minute baseline periods not preceded by aggressive activity. Following aggression, affiliation rates increased between combatants and their opponents, aggressors and the kin of their opponents, and aggressors and their own kin. Additional analyses showed that aggression among kin was reconciled more often than aggression among nonkin. Recipients of aggression reconciled with their attackers more often than aggressors reconciled with their victims. Animals with similar dominance ranks reconciled proportionately more often than those with large rank disparities and aggressive infractions of a calculated dominance hierarchy were reconciled more often than attacks consistent with the hierarchy. Results suggest that both dyadic and triadic reconciliations occur in M. nemestrina and that compared to other primate species M. nemestrina exhibit a moderate-to-high conciliatory tendency.
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Author Ben-Shahar, R
Title Selectivity in large generalist herbivores: feeding patterns of African ungulates in a semi-arid habitat Type Journal Article
Year 1991 Publication (down) African Journal of Ecology Abbreviated Journal Afr. J. Ecol.
Volume 29 Issue 4 Pages 302-315
Keywords diet; forage production; grazing; wildebeest; zebra
Abstract Feeding habits of free-ranging wildebeest and zebra were monitored in a semi-arid nature reserve, bordering the southwestern part of Kruger National Park, South Africa. The purpose of study was to distinguish and define the feeding niches of two roughage grazers that occur in similar habitat types. The monthly compositions of diets were evaluated by direct observations of feeding bouts over a period of two years when rainfall patterns were average and animal populations were stable. Other analyses evaluated the standing biomass of grass species in the reserve during the wet summer and dry winter seasons.

A considerable overlap of grass species composition was found in the diets of wildebeest and zebra. Ordination of bi-monthly records of the diet composition showed greater variations in scores of grasses in zebra diet in comparison to wildebeest. Seasonal patterns were more apparent in the wildebeest diet. Preference ranking of grass species indicated that zebra diet remained constant in winter and summer. Wildebeest diet however, alternated with seasons, showing high preferences during the winter months for grass species which were rejected during summer.

The combined assessment of results from three separate statistical methods analysing temporal patterns and preferences in diet composition revealed contradictory trends. The solution, however, relied on the initial assumptions posed. Hence, wildebeest and zebra are essentially generalist feeders which show a limited amount of preference in their choice of diet.
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Call Number Equine Behaviour @ team @ Serial 2226
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Author McDonnell, S.M.; Henry,M. Bristol, F.
Title Spontaneous erection and masturbation in equids Proc 35th Type Journal Article
Year 1991 Publication (down) Abbreviated Journal J. Reprod. Fert. Suppl
Volume 44 Issue Pages 664-665
Keywords Horse; Masturbation; Erection; Aversive conditioning; Sexual behavior; Ejaculation; Semen
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Author Mills, G.
Title Kalahari Hyenas Type Miscellaneous
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Call Number Equine Behaviour @ team @ Serial 4884
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