Mate guarding constrains foraging activity of male baboons

Animal Behaviour

Volumn 51, Issue 6, 1996, Pages 1269-1277

  Alberts, Susan C ^b   Altmann, Jeanne ^a   Wilson, Michael L ^b  

^a BROOKFIELD ZOO   (United States)

^b HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FEEDING; FORAGING;

PAPIO CYNOCEPHALUS;

EID: 0030442413     PISSN: 00033472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/anbe.1996.0131     Document Type: Article

References (47)

1. Altmann, S. A. 1962. A field study of the sociobiology of rhesus monkeys, Macaca mulatta. Ann. N. Y. Acad. Sci., 102, 338-435.
2. Altmann, S. A. & Altmann, J. 1970. Baboon Ecology. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
3. Altmann, J. 1974. Observational study of behavior: sampling methods. Behaviour, 69, 227-267.
4. Altmann, J. 1980. Baboon Mothers and Infants. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press.
5. Altmann, J. & Alberts, S. C. 1987. Body mass and growth rates among wild baboons. Oecologia (Berl.), 72, 15-20.
6. Altmann, J. & Muruthi, P. 1988. Differences in daily life between semi-provisioned and wild-feeding baboons. Am. J. Primatol., 15, 213-221.
7. Altmann, J. & Samuels, A. 1992. Costs of maternal care: infant carrying in baboons. Behav. Ecol. Sociobiol., 29, 391-398.
8. Altmann, J., Schoeller, D., Altmann, S. A., Muruthi, P. & Sapolsky, R. 1993. Body size and fatness of free-living baboons reflect food availability and activity levels. Am. J. Primatol., 30, 149-161.
9. Altmann, J., Alberts, S. C., Haines, S. A., Dubach, J., Muruthi, P., Coote, T., Geffen, E., Cheesman, D. J., Mututua, R. S., Saiyalel, S. N., Wayne, R. K., Lacy, R. C. & Bruford, M. W. In press. Behavior predicts genetic structure in a wild primate group. Proc. Natn Acad. Sci. U.S.A.
10. Bercovitch, F. B. 1983. Time budgets and consortships in olive baboons (Papio anubis). Folia primatol., 41, 180-190.
11. Carpenter, C. R. 1934. A field study of the behavior and social relations of howling monkeys (Alouatta palliata). Comp. Psychol. Monogr., 10, 1-168.
12. Carpenter, C. R. 1942. Sexual behavior of free ranging rhesus monkeys (Macaca mulatta). I. Specimens, procedures and behavioral characteristics of estrus. J. comp. Psychol., 33, 113-142.
13. Clutton-Brock, T. H., Guinness, F. E. & Albon, S. D. 1982. Red Deer: Behavior and Ecology of Two Sexes. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
14. Coelho, A. M. 1985. Baboon dimorphism: growth in weight, length and adiposity from birth to eight years of age. In: Nonhuman Primate Models for Human Growth and Development (Ed. by E. S. Watts), pp. 125-159. New York: Alan R. Liss.
15. Convey, P. 1989. Post-copulatory guarding strategies in the non-territorial dragonfly Sympetrum sanguineum. Anim. Behav., 37, 56-63.
16. Crockett, C. M. & Eisenberg, J. F. 1987. Howlers: variations in group size and demography. In: Primate Societies (Ed. by B. B. Smuts, D. L. Cheney, R. M. Seyfarth, R. W. Wrangham & T. T. Struhsaker), pp. 54-68. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
17. Cuthill, I. C. & Macdonald, W. A. 1990. Experimental manipulation of the dawn and dusk chorus in the blackbird Turdus merula. Behav. Ecol. Sociobiol., 26, 209-216.
18. Demment, M. W. 1983. Feeding ecology and the evolution of body size of baboons. Afr. J. Ecol., 21, 219-233.
19. Enomoto, T. 1974. The sexual behavior of Japanese monkeys. J. Hum. Evol., 3, 351-372.
20. Geist, V. 1971. Mountain Sheep: A Study in Behavior and Evolution. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
21. Hall, K. R. L. & DeVore, I. 1965. Baboon social behavior. In: Primate Behavior (Ed. by I. DeVore), pp. 53-110. New York: Holt, Rinehardt and Winston.
22. Hausfater, G. 1975. Dominance and Reproduction in Baboons (Papio cynocephalus). Basel: Karger.
23. Kleiber, M. 1975. The Fire of Life: An Introduction to Animal Energetics. Huntington, New York: R. E. Krieger.
24. LeBoeuf, B. J. 1974. Male-male competition and reproductive success in elephant seals. Am. Zool., 14, 163-176.
25. Lindburg, D. G. 1971. The rhesus monkey in northern India: An ecological and behavioral study. In: Primate Behavior (Ed. by L. A. Rosenblum), pp. 1-106. New York: Academic Press.
26. Moss, C. J. & Poole, J.H. 1983. Relationships and social structure of African elephants. In: Primate Social Relationships: An Integrated Approach (Ed. by R. A. Hinde), pp. 315-325. Oxford: Blackwell Scientific.
27. Muruthi, P., Altmann, J. & Altmann, S. 1991. Resource base, parity, and reproductive condition affect females' feeding time and nutrient intake within and between groups of a baboon population. Oecologia (Berl.), 87, 467-472.
28. Noë, R. & Sluijter, A. A. 1990. Reproductive tactics of male savanna baboons. Behaviour, 113, 117-170.
29. Packer, C. 1977. Reciprocal altruism in Papio anubis. Nature, Lond., 265, 441-443.
30. Packer, C. 1979. Male dominance and reproductive activity in Papio anubis. Anim. Behav., 27, 37-45.
31. Poole, J. H. 1989. Announcing intent: the aggressive state of musth in African elephants. Anim. Behav., 37, 140-152.
32. Rasmussen, K. L. R. 1980. Consort behaviour and mate selection in yellow baboons (Papio cynocephalus). Ph.D. dissertation, University of Cambridge.
33. Rasmussen, K. L. R. 1983. Age-related variation in the interactions of adult females with adult males in yellow baboons. In: Primate Social Relationships: An Integrated Approach (Ed. by R. A. Hinde), pp. 47-52. Oxford: Blackwell Scientific.
34. Rasmussen, K. L. R. 1985. Changes in the activity budgets of yellow baboons (Papio cynocephalus) during sexual consortships. Behav. Ecol. Sociobiol., 17, 161-170.
35. Rasmussen, K. L. R. 1986. Spatial patterns and peripheralisation of yellow baboons (Papio cynocephalus) during sexual consortships. Behaviour, 97, 161-180.
36. Robinson, J. G. & Janson, C. H. 1987. Capuchins, squirrel monkeys, and atelines: socioecological convergence with Old World primates. In: Primate Societies (Ed. by B. B. Smuts, D. L. Cheney, R. M. Seyfarth, R. W. Wrangham & T. T. Struhsaker), pp. 69-82. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
37. Saayman G. S. 1970. The menstrual cycle and sexual behaviour in a troop of free-ranging chacma baboons (Papio ursinus). Folia primatol., 12, 81-110.
38. Seyfarth, R. M. 1978. Social relationships among adult male and female baboons. I. Behaviour during sexual consortship. Behaviour, 64, 204-226.
39. Singer, F. 1987. A physiological basis of variation in post-copulatory behaviour in a dragonfly Sympetrum obtrusum. Anim. Behav., 35, 1575-1577.
40. Slatkin, M. & Hausfater, G. 1976. A note on the activities of a solitary male baboon. Primates, 17, 311-322.
41. Smuts, B. B. 1985. Sex and Friendship in Baboons. New York: Aldine.
42. Sokal, R. R. & Rohlf, F. J. 1981. Biometry. New York: W. H. Freeman.
43. Strum, S. C. 1991. Weight and age in wild olive baboons. Am. J. Primatol., 25, 219-237.
44. Tutin, C. E. G. 1979. Mating patterns and reproductive strategies in a community of wild chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes schweinfurthii). Behav. Ecol. Sociobiol., 6, 29-38.
45. Watts, E. S. 1985. Adolescent growth and development of monkeys, apes and humans. In: Nonhuman Primate Models for Human Growth and Development (Ed. by E. S. Watts), pp. 41-65. New York: Alan R. Liss.
46. Western, D. & van Praet, C. 1973. Cyclical changes in the habitat and climate of an East African ecosystem. Nature, Lond, 241, 104-106.
47. Whitten, P. L. 1982. Female reproductive strategies among vervet monkeys. Ph.D. dissertation, Harvard University.