Male post-ejaculatory mounting in the ring-tailed lemur (Lemur catta): A behavior solicited by females?

Ethology

Volumn 116, Issue 9, 2010, Pages 832-842

  Parga, Joyce A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGGRESSION; CONSPECIFIC; COPULATION; FEMALE BEHAVIOR; MATE GUARDING; PRIMATE; RESIDENCE TIME; SPERM COMPETITION;

GEORGIA; SAINT CATHERINES ISLAND; UNITED STATES;

LEMUR CATTA; PRIMATES; STREPSIRHINI;

EID: 77958525285     PISSN: 01791613     EISSN: 14390310     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1439-0310.2010.01797.x     Document Type: Article

References (67)

1. Alcock, J. 1994: Postinsemination associations between males and females in insects: the mate-guarding hypothesis. Annu. Rev. Entomol. 39, 1-21.
2. Altmann, J. 1974: Observational study of behavior: sampling methods. Behaviour 49, 227-267.
3. Asa, C. S. & Valdespino, C. 1998: Canid reproductive biology: an integration of proximate mechanisms and ultimate causes. Am. Zool. 38, 251-259.
4. Beach, F. A. 1976: Sexual attractivity, proceptivity, and receptivity in female mammals. Horm. Behav. 7, 105-138.
5. Bercovitch, F. B. 1987: Reproductive success in male savanna baboons. Behav. Ecol. Sociobiol. 21, 163-172.
6. Bernstein, I. S. 1980: Activity patterns in a stumptail macaque group (Macaca arctoides). Folia Primatol. 33, 20-45.
7. Birkhead, T. R. & Moller, A. P. 1998: Sperm Competition and Sexual Selection. Academic Press, London.
8. Carballada, R. & Esponda, P. 1997: Fate and distribution of seminal plasma proteins in the genital tract of the female rat after natural mating. J. Reprod. Fertil. 109, 325-335.
9. Clutton-Brock, T. H. 1985: Size, sexual dimorphism, and polygyny in primates. In: Size and Scaling in Primate Biology (Jungers, W. L., ed.). Plenum Press, New York, pp. 51-60.
10. Clutton-Brock, T. H. 1989: Mammalian mating systems. Proc. R. Soc. Lond. B Biol. Sci. 236, 339-372.
11. Dewsbury, D. A. 1982: Ejaculate cost and male choice. Am. Nat. 119, 601-610.
12. Dewsbury, D. A. 1984: Sperm competition in muroid rodents. In: Sperm Competition and the Evolution of Animal Mating Systems (Smith, R. L., ed.). Academic Press, Orlando, pp. 547-571.
13. Dickinson, J. L. 1995: Trade-offs between postcopulatory riding and mate location in the blue milkweed beetle. Behav. Ecol. 6, 280-286.
14. Dierenfeld, E. S. & McCann, C. M. 1999: Nutrient composition of selected plant species consumed by semi free-ranging lion-tailed macaques (Macaca silenus) and ring-tailed lemurs (Lemur catta) on St. Catherines Island, Georgia, U.S.A Zoo Biol. 18, 481-494.
15. Dixson, A. F. 1998: Primate Sexuality: Comparative Studies of the Prosimians, Monkeys, Apes, and Human Beings. Oxford Univ. Press, Oxford.
16. Eberhard, W. G. 1985: Sexual Selection and Animal Genitalia. Harvard Univ. Press, Cambridge.
17. Eberhard, W. G. 1996: Female Control: Sexual Selection by Cryptic Female Choice. Princeton Univ. Press, Princeton.
18. Eberle, M., Perret, M. & Kappeler, P. M. 2007: Sperm competition and optimal timing of matings in Microcebus murinus. Int. J. Primatol. 28, 1267-1278.
19. Evans, C. S. & Goy, R. W. 1968: Social behaviour and reproductive cycles in captive ring-tailed lemurs (Lemur catta). J. Zool. 156, 181-197.
20. Goldfoot, D. A., Slob, A. K., Scheffler, G., Robinson, J. A., Wiegand, S. J. & Cords, J. 1975: Multiple ejaculations during prolonged sexual tests and lack of resultant serum testosterone increases in male stumptail macaques (M. arctoides). Arch. Sex. Behav. 4, 547-560.
21. Gould, L. 1994: Patterns of Affiliative Behavior in Adult Male Ringtailed Lemurs (Lemur catta) at Beza Mahafaly Reserve, Madagascar. Ph.D. Dissertation, Washington Univ., St. Louis, USA.
22. Gould, L. 1996: Male-female affiliative relationships in naturally occurring ringtailed lemurs (Lemur catta)at the Beza-Mahafaly Reserve, Madagascar. Am. J. Primatol. 39, 63-78.
23. Gouzoules, H. 1974: Harassment of sexual behavior in the stumptail macaque, Macaca arctoides. Folia Primatol. 22, 208-217.
24. Hogg, J. T. 1988: Copulatory tactics in relation to sperm competition in Rocky Mountain bighorn sheep. Behav. Ecol. Sociobiol. 22, 49-59.
25. Hunter, F. M., Petrie, M., Otronen, M., Birkhead, T. & Møller, A. P. 1993: Why do females copulate repeatedly with one male? Trends Ecol. Evol. 8, 21-26.
26. Jolly, A. 1966: Lemur Behavior. Univ. of Chicago Press, Chicago.
27. Jolly, A., Sussman, R. W., Koyama, N. & Rasamimanana, H. 2006: Ringtailed Lemur Biology: Lemur catta in Madagascar. Springer Science+Business Media, New York.
28. Kappeler, P. M. 1990a: The evolution of sexual size dimorphism in prosimian primates. Am. J. Primatol. 21, 201-214.
29. Kappeler, P. M. 1990b: Female dominance in Lemur catta: more than just female feeding priority? Folia Primatol. 55, 92-95.
30. Kappeler, P. M. 1993: Sexual selection and lemur social systems. In: Lemur Social Systems and Their Ecological Basis (Kappeler, P. M. & Ganzhorn, J. U., eds). Plenum Press, New York, pp. 223-240.
31. Keith-Lucas, T., White, F. J., Keith-Lucas, L. & Vick, L. G. 1999: Changes in behavior in free-ranging Lemur catta following release in a natural habitat. Am. J. Primatol. 47, 15-28.
32. Koprowski, J. L. 1992: Removal of copulatory plugs by female tree squirrels. J. Mammal. 73, 572-576.
33. Koyama, N. 1988: Mating behavior of ring-tailed lemurs (Lemur catta) at Berenty, Madagascar. Primates 29, 163-175.
34. Koyama, N., Nakamichi, M., Oda, R., Miyamoto, N., Ichino, S. & Takahata, Y. 2001: A ten-year summary of reproductive parameters for ring-tailed lemurs at Berenty, Madagascar. Primates 42, 1-14.
35. Marson, J., Gervais, D., Meuris, S., Cooper, R. W. & Jouannet, P. 1989: Influence of ejaculation frequency on semen characteristics in chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes). J. Reprod. Fertil. 85, 43-50.
36. Martin, P. & Bateson, P. 1986: Measuring Behaviour: An Introductory Guide, 2nd edn. Cambridge Univ. Press, Cambridge.
37. Mayr, E. 1954: Changes of genetic environment and evolution. In: Evolution as a Process (Huxley, J., Hardy, A. C. & Ford, E. B., eds). Allen & Unwin, London, pp. 157-180.
38. Michener, G. R. 1984: Copulatory plugs in Richardson's ground squirrels. Can. J. Zool. 62, 267-270.
39. Moreira, P. L. & Birkhead, T. R. 2004: Copulatory plug displacement and prolonged copulation in the Iberian rock lizard (Lacerta monticola). Behav. Ecol. Sociobiol. 56, 290-297.
40. Murray, R. D., Bour, E. S. & Smith, E. O. 1985: Female menstrual cyclicity and sexual behavior in stumptail macaques (Macaca arctoides). Int. J. Primatol. 6, 101-113.
41. Nakamichi, M. & Koyama, N. 1997: Social relationships among ring-tailed lemurs (Lemur catta) in two freeranging troops at Berenty Reserve, Madagascar. Int. J. Primatol. 18, 73-93.
42. Nunn, C. L. 1999: The evolution of exaggerated sexual swellings in primates and the graded-signal hypothesis. Anim. Behav. 58, 229-246.
43. Parga, J. A. 2003: Copulatory plug displacement evidences sperm competition in Lemur catta. Int. J. Primatol. 24, 889-899.
44. Parga, J. A. 2006: Male mate choice in Lemur catta. Int. J. Primatol. 27, 107-131.
45. Parga, J. A. 2009: Dominance rank reversals and rank instability among male Lemur catta: the effects of female behavior and ejaculation. Am. J. Phys. Anthropol. 138, 293-305.
46. Parga, J. A. & Lessnau, R. G. 2005: Female age-specific reproductive rates, birth seasonality, and infant mortality of ring-tailed lemurs on St. Catherines Island: 17-year reproductive history of a free-ranging colony. Zoo Biol. 24, 295-309.
47. Parga, J. A. & Lessnau, R. G. 2008: Dispersal among male ring-tailed lemurs (Lemur catta) on St. Catherines Island. Am. J. Primatol. 70, 650-660.
48. Parga, J. A., Maga, M. & Overdorff, D. J. 2006: Highresolution x-ray computed tomography scanning of primate copulatory plugs. Am. J. Phys. Anthropol. 129, 567-576.
49. Pereira, M. E. 1991: Asynchrony within estrus synchrony among ringtailed lemurs (Primates: Lemuridae). Physiol. Behav. 49, 47-52.
50. Pereira, M. E. & Weiss, M. L. 1991: Female mate choice, male migration, and the threat of infanticide in ringtailed lemurs. Behav. Ecol. Sociobiol. 28, 141-152.
51. Pereira, M. E., Kaufman, R., Kappeler, P. M. & Overdorff, D. J. 1990: Female dominance does not characterize all of the lemuridae. Folia Primatol. 55, 96-103.
52. Preston, B. T., Stevenson, I. R., Pemberton, J. M. & Wilson, K. 2001: Dominant rams lose out by sperm depletion. Nature 409, 681-682.
53. Reeder, D. M. 2003: The potential for cryptic female choice in primates: behavioral, anatomical, and physiological considerations. In: Sexual Selection and Reproductive Competition in Primates: New Perspectives and Directions (Jones, C. B., ed). American Society of Primatologists, Norman, pp. 254-303.
54. Sakaluk, S. K. 1991: Post-copulatory mate guarding in decorated crickets. Anim. Behav. 41, 207-216.
55. Sato, Y. & Kohama, T. 2007: Post-copulatory mounting behavior of the West Indian sweetpotato weevil, Euscepes postfasciatus (Fairmaire) (Coleoptera: Curculionidae). Ethology 113, 183-189.
56. Sauther, M. L. 1991: Reproductive behavior of free-ranging Lemur catta at Beza Mahafaly Special Reserve, Madagascar. Am. J. Phys. Anthropol. 84, 463-477.
57. Sauther, M. L., Sussman, R. W. & Gould, L. 1999: The socioecology of the ringtailed lemur: thirty-five years of research. Evol. Anthropol. 8, 120-132.
58. Sauther, M. E., Cuozzo, F. P. & Sussman, R. W. 2001: Analysis of dentition of a living wild population of ring-tailed lemurs (Lemur catta) from Beza Mahafaly, Madagascar. Am. J. Phys. Anthropol. 114, 215-223.
59. Setchell, J. M., Charpentier, M. & Wickings, E. J. 2005: Mate guarding and paternity in mandrills: factors influencing alpha male monopoly. Anim. Behav. 70, 1105-1120.
60. Sherman, P. W. 1989: Mate guarding as paternity insurance in Idaho ground squirrels. Nature 338, 418-420.
61. Siegel, S. & Castellan, N. J. 1988: Nonparametric Statistics for the Behavioural Sciences, 2nd edn. McGrawHill, New York.
62. Stumpf, R. M., Emery Thompson, M. & Knott, C. D. 2008: A comparison of female mating strategies in Pan troglodytes and Pongo spp. Int. J. Primatol. 29, 865-884.
63. Sussman, R. W. 1992: Male life history and intergroup mobility among ringtailed lemurs (Lemur catta). Int. J. Primatol. 13, 395-413.
64. Taylor, L. & Sussman, R. W. 1985: A preliminary study of kinship and social organization in a semi-free ranging group of Lemur catta. Int. J. Primatol. 6, 601-614.
65. Thomas, L. K. & Manica, A. 2005: Intrasexual competition and mate choice in assassin bugs with uniparental male and female care. Anim. Behav. 69, 275-281.
66. Thomas, D. H., Jones, G. D., Durham, R. S. & Larsen, C. S. 1978: The anthropology of St. Catherines Island. 1. Natural and cultural history. Anthropol. Pap. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist. 55, 155-248.
67. Van Horn, R. N. & Resko, J. A. 1977: The reproductive cycle of the ring-tailed lemur (Lemur catta), sex steroid levels and sexual receptivity under controlled photo-periods. Endocrinology 101, 1579-1586.