Resource partitioning in tolerant and intolerant macaques

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ID11106920
AutoresNancy Rebout (0000-0002-7071-0011, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique Université de Strasbourg, Institut Pluridisciplinaire Hubert Curien Strasbourg France, autor de correspondencia), Christine Desportes (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique Université de Strasbourg, Institut Pluridisciplinaire Hubert Curien Strasbourg France), B Thierry (0000-0002-8065-093X, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique Université de Strasbourg, Institut Pluridisciplinaire Hubert Curien Strasbourg France)
Año2017
Volumen43
Número5
Páginas513-520
Fecha de publicación2017-09-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaAggressive Behavior (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0096-140X • E-ISSN: 1098-2337
EditorialWiley (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1002/ab.21709
PMID28449231
OpenAlexW2609225966
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas2
Referencias citadas51

The clumped distribution of food resources promotes food defensibility and can lead to the monopolizing of resources by high-ranking individuals. However, the balance of power is set at different levels according to societies, meaning that resource partitioning should vary between them. This study investigates whether dominance asymmetry and resource partitioning are related in non-human primates by comparing two species with contrasting social styles, namely rhesus macaques (Macaca mulatta) which display strong social intolerance and a steep gradient of dominance, and Tonkean macaques (Macaca tonkeana), which exhibit higher levels of tolerance and more balanced dominance relationships. Study groups were kept in semi-free ranging conditions. Animals were provided with fruit in three different clumped conditions during 30-min trials. We found that higher-ranking rhesus macaques had priority for the access to fruit: these individuals spent longer in the feeding area in the first 10-min period of trials, while lower-ranking individuals had diminished access to fruit under the most clumped condition; this was associated with sustained agonistic interactions. Dominance effects were weaker in Tonkean macaques. They exhibited co-feeding between high- and low-ranking individuals in the first period; there was no significant effect of dominance even in the most clumped condition; and frequencies of agonistic interactions remained moderate relative to the number of individuals present in the feeding area. These results show that food resources were more equitably distributed among group members in tolerant macaques than in their intolerant counterparts. Dominance gradient and social tolerance may be considered as two aspects of the same phenomenon

Aggression · Agonistic behaviour · Biology · Dominance (genetics · Dominance hierarchy · Macaque · Rhesus macaque · Animal Behavior and Reproduction · Child and Animal Learning Development · Demography · Ecology · Primate Behavior and Ecology · Psychology · Social Psychology