Social Bonds of Female Baboons Enhance Infant Survival

By Joan B. Silk, S. Alberts, Jeanne Altmann. Science, 2003

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Subfields: Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, Social Psychology

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The effect of new alpha males on female stress in free-ranging baboons (2005, background): “Several authors have suggested that certain sorts of social relationships, like bonds among female kin or male–female friendships (e.g. Palombit et al. 1997; Silk et al. 1999, 2003), may buffer and protect females against the effects of stressful events like the arrival of a new alpha male.”
Chimps of a feather sit together: chimpanzee friendships are based on homophily in personality (2014, background): “Similarly, female-30 female friendships positively influence survival (Silk et al. 2010b), and also 31 reproduction through increased infant survival (Silk et al., 2003; Silk et al., 2009; 32 Cameron et al., 2009; Frére et al., 2010).”
Greetings promote cooperation and reinforce social bonds among spotted hyaenas (2011, background): “Specifically, senders and receivers should theoretically use costly signals to exchange honest information about social bonds (Zahavi 1977a; Gintis et al. 2001), defined here as close and enduring affiliative relationships (Silk et al. 2003, 2006).”
Rank-related partner choice in the fission–fusion society of the spotted hyena (Crocuta crocuta) (2007, positive): “For example, baboons gain immediate hygienic and hedonic benefits from grooming (Barrett et al. 1999; Barrett and Henzi 2001) and the net benefits associated with long-term social bonds (Silk et al. 2003).”
The social role of touch in humans and primates: behavioural function and neurobiological mechanisms. (2010, background): “Second, the reproductive success (indexed as the number of surviving infants produced) of wild female savannah baboons (Papio hamadryas cynocephalus) is correlated with the number and intensity of their relationships (which, of course, are established and serviced by grooming) (Silk et al., 2003).”
Close social associations in animals and humans : functions and mechanisms of friendship (2010, background): “Finally, female yellow baboons with more female close social associates are more likely to rear infants successfully than socially ‘isolated’ females (Silk et al., 2003), and similarly, female feral horses that are more ‘integrated’ have increased foal birth rates and foal survival rates (Cameron et”
The Neurobiology of Social Distance (2020, positive): “Monkey mothers with a thinner social network are less likely to have infants which themselves have high fitness [28].”
The adaptive value of sociality in mammalian groups (2007, background): “In Amboseli, females that are more fully socially integrated into their groups reproduce more successfully than other females (Silk et al. 2003).”
Kin discrimination in juvenile mandrills, Mandrillus sphinx (2007, methodology): “We computed a composite index of affiliation, as defined by Silk et al. (2003) , for each dyad that included at least one juvenile:”
Core area quality is associated with variance in reproductive success among female chimpanzees at Kibale National Park (2007, positive): “Increased maternal sociality has been linked to infant survivorship in some primates (Silk et al. 2003), so range dispersion could also affect reproductive success by affecting gregariousness.”