Factors Affecting Reproduction and Mortality Among Baboons in the Okavango Delta, Botswana

By D. Cheney, R. Seyfarth, J. Fischer, J. Beehner, T. Bergman, Sara E. Johnson, D. Kitchen, R. Palombit, Drew Rendall, Joan B. Silk. International journal of primatology, 2004

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Subfields: Developmental Biology, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Social Psychology

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Correlates of stress in free-ranging male chacma baboons, Papio hamadryas ursinus (2005, background): “Since mid-1992 the group has been under continuous observation on an almost daily basis (Cheney et al. 2004).”
Female hierarchy instability, male immigration and infanticide increase glucocorticoid levels in female chacma baboons (2006, background): “Initially, CP threatened Cat only when she was able to recruit high-ranking females to help her.”
Hedging their bets? Male and female chacma baboons form friendships based on likelihood of paternity (2010, background): “Infanticide is the leading cause of infant mortality in chacma baboons at this study site (Cheney et al. 2004), and protection from male friends probably increases infant survival (Palombit et al.”
Social competition and its consequences in female mammals (2013, background): “Abundant food supplies or severe 572 food shortage can both mask the influence of social rank (Woodroffe & Macdonald 573 1995, Cheney et al. 2004).”
Vocal alliances in Chacma baboons (Papio hamadryas ursinus) (2007, background): “success in female Old World monkeys (reviewed by Silk 2002b; Cheney et al. 2004 ), it seems likely that vocal support ultimately functions to enhance the signaller’s inclusive fitness.”
The adaptive value of sociality in mammalian groups (2007, background): “We also must consider the possibility that the effects of dominance rank may be swamped by other factors that are largely independent of dominance rank, such as predation or infanticide (Cheney et al. 2004).”
The ecology of conception and pregnancy failure in wild baboons (2006, background): “Perhaps as a result, several baboon studies (including studies from the Amboseli population) have reported higher success for highranking females for some fitness components (Bulger and Hamilton 1987; Altmann et al. 1988; Bercovitch and Strum 1993; Packer et al. 1995; Wasser 1995; Altmann and Albert”
Who, me? Can baboons infer the target of vocalizations? (2006, background): “Like many other species of Old World monkeys, female baboons in this population form linear dominance hierarchies that remain stable over long periods (Silk et al. 1999; Bergman et al. 2003; Cheney et al. 2004).”
Strong and consistent social bonds enhance the longevity of female baboons. (2010, background): “Among female baboons, variation in breeding lifespan accounts for approximately 50% of the variation in lifetime fitness [5, 6].”
Friendships between males and lactating females in a free-ranging group of olive baboons (Papio hamadryas anubis): evidence from playback experiments (2008, unknown): “As higher rank may be associated with greater reproductive success (Smuts and Nicolson 1989; but see Cheney et al. 2004 ), this result may reflect the greater attractiveness of higher ranking females to multiple male associates (Stein 1984 ;S muts1985).”
Infant and child death in the human environment of evolutionary adaptation (2013, background): “…predationmay have played a larger role for earlier hominids (Hart & Sussman, 2005), but this may be the largest difference in mortality causes between Homo sapiens and our primate relatives, for whom predation plays a much greater role, alongside infanticide (Anderson, 1986; Cheney et al., 2004).”
The effect of new alpha males on female stress in free-ranging baboons (2005, background): “In the population of chacma baboons discussed in this paper, infanticide is the single most important cause of infant mortality (Cheney et al. 2004).”
The benefits of social capital: close social bonds among female baboons enhance offspring survival (2009, methodology): “However, there is no evidence that low-ranking animals are more susceptible to predation than high-ranking ones (Cheney et al. 2004).”
Testosterone predicts future dominance rank and mating activity among male chacma baboons (2006, background): “, Bulger and Hamilton 1987) and almost daily since 1992 (Cheney et al. 2004).”