Generous leaders and selfish underdogs: Pro-sociality in despotic macaques

PLoS ONE

Volumn 5, Issue 3, 2010, Pages

  Massen, Jorg J M ^a   van den Berg, Lisette M ^a   Spruijt, Berry M ^a   Sterck, Elisabeth H M ^a,b  

^a UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b BIOMEDICAL PRIMATE RESEARCH CENTRE   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALTRUISM; ANIMAL; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ARTICLE; FEMALE; MACACA; MALE; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL DOMINANCE;

ALTRUISM; ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; FEMALE; HIERARCHY, SOCIAL; MACACA; MALE; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL DOMINANCE;

EID: 77956927031     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0009734     Document Type: Article

References (35)

1. Trivers RL (1971) The evolution of reciprocal altruism. Quart Rev Biol 46: 35-57.
2. Dugatkin LA (1997) Cooperation among animals: an evolutionary perspective, Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press.
3. Fehr E, Fishbacher U (2003) The nature of human altruism. Nature 425: 785-791.
4. Burkart JM, Fehr E, Efferson C, van Schaik CP (2007) Other-regarding preferences in a non-human primate: Common marmosets provision food altruistically. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 104: 19762-19766.
5. Hrdy SB (2005) Evolutionary context of human development: the cooperative breeding hypothesis. In: Carter CS, Ahnert L, Grossmann KE, Hrdy SB, Lamb ME, Porges SW, Sachser N, eds. Attachment and Bonding: A New Synthesis; From the 92nd Dahlem Workshop Report. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press. pp 9-32.
6. Cronin KA, Schroeder KKE, Rothwell ES, Silk JB, Snowdon CT (2009) Cooperatively breeding conttontop tamarins (Saguinus oedipus) do not donate rewards to their long-term mates. J Comp Psychol 123: 231-241.
7. de Waal FBM, Leimgruber K, Greenberg AR (2008) Giving is self-rewarding for monkeys. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 105: 13685-13689.
8. Lakshminarayanan VR, Santos L (2009) Capuchin monkeys are sensitive to others' welfare. Curr Biol 18: R999-1000.
9. Wobber V, Wrangham R, Hare B (2010) Bonobos exhibit delayed development of social behavior and cognition relative to chimpanzees. Curr Biol 20: 226-230.
10. Silk JB, Brosnan SF, Vonk J, Henrich J, Povinelli DJ, et al. (2005) Chimpanzees are indifferent to the welfare of unrelated group members. Nature 437: 1357-1359.
11. Jensen K, Hare B, Call J, Tomasello M (2006) What's in it for me? Self-regard precludes altruism and spite in chimpanzees. Proc Biol Sci 273: 1013-1021.
12. Vonk J, Brosnan SF, Silk JB, Henrich J, Richardson AS, et al. (2008) Chimpanzees do not take advantage of very low cost opportunities to deliver food to unrelated group members. Anim Behav 75: 1757-1770.
13. Warneken F, Hare B, Melis AP, Hanus D, Tomasello M (2007) Spontaneous altruism by chimpanzees and young children. PLOS Biol 5: 1-7.
14. Fehr E, Bernhard H, Rockenbach B (2008) Egalitarianism in young children. Nature 454: 1079-1083.
15. Silk JB (1986) Social behaviour in evolutionary perspective. In: Smuts BB, Cheney DL, Seyfarth RM, Wrangham RW, Struhsaker TT, Struhsaker TT, eds. Primate societies. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. pp 318-329.
16. Thierry B (2000) Covariation of conflict management patterns across macaque species. In: Aureli F, de Waal FBM, eds. Natural conflict resolution. Berkeley: University of California Press. pp 106-128.
17. van Noordwijk MA, van Schaik CP (1999) The effects of dominance rank and group size on female lifetime reproductive success in wild long-tailed macaques, Macaca fascicularis. Primates 40: 105-30.
18. Seyfarth RM (1977) A model of social grooming among adult female monkeys. J Theor Biol 65: 671-698.
19. Noë R, van Schaik CP, van Hooff JARAM (1991) The market effect: an explanation for pay-off asymmetries among collaborating animals. Etholog 87: 97-118.
20. Moore J (1984) The evolution of reciprocal sharing. Ethol Sociobiol 5: 5-14.
21. de Waal FBM (1989) Food sharing and reciprocal obligations among chimpanzees. J Hum Evol 18: 433-459.
22. Gumert MD (2007) Payment for sex in a macaque market. Anim Behav 74: 1655-1667.
23. Hamilton WD (1964) The Genetical Evolution of Social Behaviour I-II. J Theor Biol 7: 1-52.
24. Schaub, H (1996) Testing kin altruism in long-tailed macaques (Macaca fascicularis) in a food-sharing experiment. Int J Primatol 17: 445-467.
25. Dovidio JF, Gaertner SL (1981) The effect of race, status, and ability on helping behaviour. Soc Psych Quart 44: 192-203.
26. Mast MS, Bischof N (1999) An experimental study of altruism in rank relationships. J Psych 207: 1-34.
27. Zahavi A (2004) The details of food-sharing interactions-their cost in social prestige. Behav Brain Sci 27: 570.
28. Zahavi A (1997) Reliability in communication systems and the evolution of altruism. In: Stonehouse B, Perrins C, eds. Evolutionary ecology Macmillan Press. pp 253-59.
29. van Noordwijk MA, van Schaik CP (2001) Career moves: transfer and rank challenge decisions by male long-tailed macaques. Behav 138: 359-395.
30. van Noordwijk MA, van Schaik CP (1987) Competition among female longtailed macaques, Macaca fascicularis. Anim Behav 35: 577-589.
31. Hill DA, Okayasu N (1996) Determinants of dominance among female macaques: nepotism, demography and danger. In: Fa JE, Lindburg DG, eds. Evolution and ecology of macaque societies. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press. pp 459-472.
32. Chance MRA, Emory GR, Payne, RG (1977) Status referents in long-tailed macaques (Macaca fascicularis): Precursors and effects of female rebellion. Primates 18: 611-632.
33. Massen JJM, van den Berg LM, Spruijt BM, Sterck EHM (submitted) Inequity aversion and the effect of relationship quality in long-tailed macaques (Macaca fascicularis).
34. de Vries J (1995) An improved test of linearity in dominance hierarchies containing unknown or tied relationships. Anim Behav 50: 1375-1389.
35. de Vries J (1998) Finding a dominance order most consistent with a linear hierarchy: a new procedure and review. Anim Behav 55: 827-843.