Strong and consistent social bonds enhance the longevity of female baboons.

By Joan B. Silk, J. Beehner, T. Bergman, Catherine Crockford, A. Engh, L. R. Moscovice, Roman M. Wittig, R. Seyfarth, D. Cheney. Current Biology, 2010

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Subfields: Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, Social Psychology

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Social competition and its consequences in female mammals (2013, background): “557 As well as affecting breeding success, dominance can affect the extent to 558 which individuals are exposed to the risk of predation and their relative rates of 559 survival (Silk et al. 2010).”
Allostasis: a model of predictive regulation. (2012, positive): “Finally, the studies document that the ability to maintain and manage these social connections improves the individual's longevity and reproductive success [45,46].”
Social dynamics among females and their influence on social structure in an East African chimpanzee community (2013, positive): “There is a growing body of evidence that social bonds among females can have strong adaptive benefits that extend beyond kin selection (e.g. female feral horses, Equus caballus: Cameron et al. 2009; baboons, Papio hamadryas ursinus: Silk et al. 2010).”
The origin of meaning in animal signals (2017, background): “…often accompanied by grooming and occurs at high rates among individuals that may live for many years together in groups where repeated interactions are common and long-term social bonds with consistent partners are positively correlated with reproductive success (Silk et al., 2009, 2010a, 2010b).”
Close social associations in animals and humans : functions and mechanisms of friendship (2010, background): “Furthermore, female chacma baboons that form strong and consistent social associations with other females are reported to live longer than females that form weaker and less stable social associations (Silk et al., 2010).”
Social personality traits in chimpanzees: temporal stability and structure of behaviourally assessed personality traits in three captive populations (2011, positive): “Social relationships may last years or even decades (Silk et al. 2010; Mitani 2009).”
Constructing, conducting and interpreting animal social network analysis (2015, background): “The properties of individuals captured by social network analysis can then be linked to fitness (McDonald 2007; Silk et al. 2010; Formica et al. 2012; Wey et al. 2013; Farine & Sheldon 2015), thus framing sociality in an evolutionary context.”
Hamilton's legacy: kinship, cooperation and social tolerance in mammalian groups (2014, background): “…sociality have now been documented in mammalian species including humans (House, Landis, & Umberson, 1988), baboons (Silk, Alberts, & Altmann, 2003; Silk et al., 2010), house mice (Weidt, Hofmann, & Konig, 2008), laboratory rats, Rattus norvegicus (Yee, Cavigelli, Delgado, & McClintock, 2008),…”
Zoo Animal Welfare (2013, background): “Joan Silk (Silk et al. 2010) studied Chacma baboons (Papio ursinus) in Botswana, where she focused her research on 44 females.”
Female–female aggression around mating: an extra cost of sociality in a multimale primate society (2011, background): “…experiences of males, subordinate females may still suffer significant costs that could contribute to their common tendency to exhibit a relatively poor reproductive performance (e.g., Smuts and Nicolson 1989; Altmann and Alberts 2003; Wasser et al. 2004) and shorter lifespan (Silk et al. 2010).”