Group size and foraging efficiency in yellow baboons

By P. Stacey. Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology, 2004

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Flexibility in Diet and Activity Patterns of Macaca tonkeana in Response to Anthropogenic Habitat Alteration (2007, background): “Further, the small size of the group living in heavily altered habitat (Anca) may be the optimal size in which foraging efficiency is maximized for that habitat (Stacey, 1986), and thus may be the response, in conjunction with dietary and behavioral flexibility, to disturbance of their habitat.”
Day length, latitude and behavioural (in)flexibility in baboons (Papio cynocephalus ursinus) (2003, background): “These relationships with group size are contrary to almost all of those previously reported in the literature for baboons, where, for example, larger groups spend more time engaged in foraging activity (Slatkin and Hausfater 1976; Stacey 1986; Gaynor 1994).”
Climatic determinants of diet and foraging behaviour in baboons (2004, result): “Similar relationships with group size have been reported both within (van Schaik et al., 1983; Stacey, 1986 ) and between populations (Dunbar, 1992a; Bronikowski and Altmann, 1996; Hill, 1999).”
Competition for Resources and Its Behavioral Consequences Among Female Primates (2002, background): “However, the effects of WGS may be compensated by increased foraging time (Janson, 1988b; Stacey, 1986) or BGC (Koenig, 2000).”