Facial width-to-height ratio relates to alpha status and assertive personality in capuchin monkeys

PLoS ONE

Volumn 9, Issue 4, 2014, Pages

  Lefevre, Carmen Emilia ^a   Wilson, Vanessa A D ^b,c   Morton, F Blake ^c,d   Brosnan, Sarah F ^e   Paukner, Annika ^f   Bates, Timothy C ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF STIRLING   (United Kingdom)

^e GEORGIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^f NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ALPHA ANIMAL; ARTICLE; ASSERTIVENESS; BODY HEIGHT; BODY WEIGHT; CEBUS; DEVELOPMENTAL STAGE; DOMINANCE BEHAVIOR; FACE PROFILE; FACIAL WIDTH; FEMALE; MALE; NONHUMAN; PUBERTY; SEX DIFFERENCE; ANATOMY AND HISTOLOGY; ANIMAL; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; FACE; PSYCHOLOGY; SEXUAL DEVELOPMENT; SEXUAL MATURATION; SOCIAL DOMINANCE; ZOO ANIMAL;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, ZOO; ASSERTIVENESS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; CEBUS; FACE; FEMALE; MALE; SEX CHARACTERISTICS; SEXUAL MATURATION; SOCIAL DOMINANCE;

EID: 84899453778     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0093369     Document Type: Article

References (48)

1. Fashing PJ (2001) Male and female strategies during intergroup encounters in guerezas (Colobus guereza): evidence for resource defense mediated through males and a comparison with other primates. Behav Ecol Sociobiol 50: 219-230.
2. Plavcan JM, van Schaik CP, Kappeler PM (1995) Competition, coalitions and canine size in primates. J Hum Evol 28: 245-276.
3. Plavcan JM (2012) Sexual Size Dimorphism, Canine Dimorphism, and Male-Male Competition in Primates. Hum Nat 23: 45-67.
4. Plavcan JM, van Schaik CP (1997) Intrasexual competition and body weight dimorphism in Anthropoid primates. Am J Phys Anthropol 103: 37-68. (Pubitemid 27240900)
5. Michael PH, Deutsch J, Burney J (1994) Size, dominance and copulatory success in male northern elephant seals, Mirounga angustirostris. Anim Behav 48: 6.
6. Alfaro JWL, Silva JS Jr, Rylands AB (2012) How different are robust and gracile capuchin monkeys? An argument for the use of Sapajus and Cebus. Am J Primatol 74: 273-286.
7. Weston EM, Friday AE, Johnstone RA, Schrenk F (2004) Wide faces or large canines? The attractive versus the aggressive primate. Proc Biol Sci 271 Suppl 6: S416-419.
8. Haselhuhn MP, Wong EM (2012) Bad to the bone: facial structure predicts unethical behaviour. Proc Biol Sci 279: 571-576.
9. Lewis GJ, Lefevre CE, Bates TC (2012) Facial width-to-height ratio predicts achievement drive in US presidents. Pers Indiv Differ 52: 855-857.
10. Stirrat M, Perrett DI (2010) Valid facial cues to cooperation and trust: Male facial width and trustworthiness. Psychol Sci 21: 349-354.
11. Stirrat M, Perrett DI (2012) Face Structure Predicts Cooperation: Men With Wider Faces Are More Generous to Their In-Group When Out-Group Competition Is Salient. Psychol Sci. 23: 718-722.
12. Carré JM, McCormick CM (2008) In your face: facial metrics predict aggressive behaviour in the laboratory and in varsity and professional hockey players. Proc Biol Sci 275: 2651-2656.
13. Deaner RO, Goetz SMM, Shattuck K, Schnotala T (2012) Body weight, not facial width-to-height ratio, predicts aggression in pro hockey players. J Res Pers 46: 235-238.
14. Özener B (2012) Facial width-to-height ratio in a Turkish population is not sexually dimorphic and is unrelated to aggressive behavior. Evol Hum Behav 33: 169-173.
15. Carré JM, McCormick CM, Mondloch CJ (2009) Facial structure is a reliable cue of aggressive behavior. Psychol Sci 20: 1194-1198.
16. Carré JM, Morrissey MD, Mondloch CJ, McCormick CM (2010) Estimating aggression from emotionally neutral faces: which facial cues are diagnostic? Perception 39: 356.
17. Masterson TJ (1997) Sexual dimorphism and interspecific cranial form in two capuchin species: Cebus albifrons and C. apella. Am J Phys Anthropol 104: 487-511.
18. Weston EM, Friday AE, Lio P (2007) Biometric Evidence that Sexual Selection Has Shaped the Hominin Face. PLoS One 2: e710.
19. Kramer RS, Jones AL, Ward R (2012) A Lack of Sexual Dimorphism in Width-to-Height Ratio in White European Faces Using 2D Photographs, 3D Scans, and Anthropometry. PLoS One 7: e42705.
20. Lefevre CE, Lewis GJ, Bates TC, Dzhelyova M, Coetzee V et al. (2012) No evidence for sexual dimorphism of facial width-to-height ratio in four large adult samples. Evol Hum Behav 33: 623-627.
21. Kapila R, Nagesh KS, Ivengar AR, Mehkri S (2011) Sexual Dimorphism in Human Mandibular Canines: A Radiomorphometric Study in South Indian Population. J Dent Res Dent Clin Dent Prospects 5: 51-54.
22. Mazur A, Booth A (1998) Testosterone and dominance in men. Behav Brain Sci 21: 353-363.
23. Bercu BB, Lee BC, Pineda JL, Spiliotis BE, Denman DW et al. (1983) Male sexual development in the monkey. I. Cross-sectional analysis of pulsatile hypothalamic-pituitary-testicular function. J Clin Endocrinol Metab 56: 1214-1226. (Pubitemid 13055116)
24. Rey R, Campo S, Ayuso S, Nagle C, Chemes H (1995) Testicular steroidogenesis in the Cebus monkey throughout postnatal development. Biol Reprod 52: 997-1002.
25. Lefevre CE, Lewis GJ, Perrett DI, Penke L (2013) Telling facial metrics: facial width is associated with testosterone levels in men. Evol Hum Behav 34: 273-279.
26. Izawa K (1980) Social Behavior of the Wild Black-capped Capuchin (Cebus apella). Primates 21: 443-467.
27. Janson C (1985) Aggressive competition and individual food consumption in wild brown capuchin monkeys (Cebus apella). Behav Ecol Sociobiol 18: 125-138.
28. Boinski S (1996) Vocal communication of troop movement in squirrel monkeys (Saimiri oersetdi and S. sciureus) and white faced capuchins (Cebus capucinus). In M.A. Norconk, A.L. Rosenberger & P.A. Garber (Eds.), Adaptive radiations of neotropical primates 251-268. Springer.
29. Di Bitetti MS (1997) Evidence for an important social role of allogrooming in a platyrrhine primate. Anim Behav 54: 199-211.
30. Wheeler BC, Scarry CJ, Koenig A (2013) Rates of agonism among female primates: a cross-taxon perspective. Behavioral Ecology 24: 1369-1380.
31. de Waal FBM (1984) Sex differences in the formation of coalitions among chimpanzees. Ethology & Sociobiology 5: 239-255.
32. Fragaszy DM, Visalberghi E, Fedigan LM (2004) The Complete Capuchin. Cambridge University Press.
33. Morton FB, Lee PC, Buchanan-Smith HM, Brosnan S, Thierry B et al. (2013) Personality structure in brown capuchin monkeys: comparisons with chimpanzees, orangutans, and rhesus macaques. J Comp Psychol 127: 282-298.
34. Coetzee V, Chen J, Perrett DI, Stephen ID (2010) Deciphering faces: Quantifiable visual cues to weight. Perception 39: 51-61.
35. ASAB (2012) Guidelines for the treatment of animals in behavioural research and teaching. Anim Behav 83: 301-309.
36. National Centre for the Replacement Refinement & Reduction of Animals in Research. (2006) NC3Rs Guidelines: Primate accommodation, care and use. London: National Centre for the Replacement, Refinement & Reduction of Animals in Research.
37. Macdonald C, Whiten A (2011) The 'Living Links to Human Evolution' Research Centre in Edinburgh Zoo: A new endeavour in collaboration. International Zoo Yearbook 45: 7-17.
38. Leonardi R, Buchanan-Smith HM, Dufour V, MacDonald C, Whiten A (2010) Living together: behavior and welfare in single and mixed species groups of capuchin (Cebus apella) and squirrel monkeys (Saimiri sciureus). Am J Primatol 72: 33-47.
39. Tiddeman BP, Perrett DI, Burt DM (2001) Prototyping and transforming facial textures for perception research. IEEE Comput Graph Appl 21: 42-50.
40. Weiss A, Inoue-Murayam M, Hong KW, Inoue E, Udono T, et al. (2009) Assessing chimpanzee personality and subjective well-being in japan. Am J Primatol 71: 283-292.
41. Gammell MP, de Vries H, Jennings DJ, Carlin CM, Hayden TJ (2003) David's score: a more appropriate dominance ranking method than Clutton-Brock et al.'s index. Animal behaviour 66: 601-605.
42. R Core Team (2012). R: A language and environment for statistical computing. R Foundation for Statistical Computing, Vienna, Austria.
43. Preacher KJ, Hayes AF (2008) Asymptotic and resampling strategies for assessing and comparing indirect effects in multiple mediator models. Behav Res Methods 40: 879-891.
44. Archer J (2004) Sex differences in aggression in real-world settings: A meta-analytic review. Rev Gen Psychol 4: 2912322.
45. Archer J (2009) Does sexual selection explain human sex differences in aggression? Behav Brain Sci 32: 2492266.
46. Steiper ME, Young NM (2006) Primate molecular divergence dates. Mol Phylogenet Evol 41: 384-394. (Pubitemid 44428198)
47. Clutton-Brock TH (1983) Selection in relation to sex. In B. J. Bendall (Ed.), Evolution from Molecules to Men, 457-481, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
48. Buikstra J, Ubelaker D (1994) Standards for data collection from human skeletal remains: proceedings of a seminar at the field museum of natural history. Arkansas Archeological Survey Research Series No. 44, Fayetteville, AR.