Tail raising by baboon mothers toward immigrant males

Bibliographic Data

ID8317277
AuthorsCurt D Busse (University of California, Davis, corresponding author)
Year1984
Volume64
Issue3
Pages255-262
Publication date1984-07-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueAmerican Journal of Physical Anthropology (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0002-9483 • E-ISSN: 1096-8644
PublisherWiley (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1002/ajpa.1330640307
PMID6540998
OpenAlexW2080213000
LanguageEN
Citations received6
References cited19

Behavioral responses of adult females to recently immigrated adult males were examined in two groups of chacma baboons in the Moremi Wildlife Reserve, Botswana. Mothers carrying infants respond negatively by raising their tails, avoiding, and screaming when in proximity to immigrant males. These responses are not given by mothers when their infants are away from them or by females who do not have infants. Also, the negative responses by mothers carrying infants are given only to immigrant males and not to long‐term resident males. These observations are in concordance with the growing evidence of infanticide in savanna baboon societies: mothers would be expected to show negative responses to potentially aggressive males, particularly immigrants. There was evidence to suggest that mothers respond negatively to immigrants only insofar as these males could not have sired their infants. If confirmed by subsequent observations, this result would lend support to the sexual selection model of infanticide

Baboon · Biology · Developmental psychology · Geography · Immigration · Raising (metalworking) · Sociology · Child and Animal Learning Development · Demography · Ecology · Evolutionary Psychology and Human Behavior · Primate Behavior and Ecology · Psychology

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