Dominance relations among adult females in a free-ranging group of Japanese monkeys at Katsuyama

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Dominance relations among adult females in the Katsuyama group of Japanese monkeys (Macaca fuscata) were analyzed. Dominance relations among female relatives of 6 or more years of age corresponded almost exactly to those predicted by Kawamura's principles [Primates, 1:149-156, 1958] in the four highest-ranking kin-groups. According to these principles, 1) a mother is dominant to her daughter and 2) among sisters, the younger is dominant to the older. However, 9 of the remaining 11 middle-and low-ranking kin-groups included dyads in which dominance relations did not correspond to those expected from Kawamura's principles. Within the dominance rank order, of all 74 adult females of 6 or more years of age, individuals of the high-ranking kin-groups always ranked adjacent to members of their own kin-group, while individuals in middle- and low-ranking kin-groups tended to be ranked independently of members of their own kin-groups. These results indicate that, since females of a high-ranking kin-group form a cohesive matrilineal unit, it may be very difficult for females of other kin-groups to break into the dominance rank order that exists among females of the high-ranking kin-groups. © 1995 Wiley-Liss, Inc.

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E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

1995

Erschienen:

1995

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Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:37

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American journal of primatology - 37(1995), 3 vom: 10., Seite 241-251

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Nakamichi, M [VerfasserIn]
Itoigawa, N [VerfasserIn]
Imakawa, S [VerfasserIn]
Machida, S [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

Dominance
Female relationships
Japanese monkeys
Journal Article
Kinship

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Date Revised 15.01.2020

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Citation Status PubMed-not-MEDLINE

doi:

10.1002/ajp.1350370306

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NLM305355147