Female–female competition for male ‘friends’ in wild chacma baboons (Papio cynocephalus ursinus)

By R. Palombit, D. Cheney, R. Seyfarth. 2001

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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): “Rather, it appears that high-ranking females were able to compete more successfully for access to a male friend (Palombit et al. 2001), and that these friendships may have dampened the stress response during the immigrant male takeover.”
Sexual selection in females (2009, background): “In many of these species, females gain support and protection for themselves and their offspring from males they consort with (de Waal 1982; Smuts 1985; Weingrill 2000; Palombit et al. 2001), and females compete for the attention of males.”
Hedging their bets? Male and female chacma baboons form friendships based on likelihood of paternity (2010, background): “Within a lactational period, female chacma baboons tend to maintain friendships with the same male (Palombit et al. 1997), although females may form new friendships in response to female competition (Palombit et al. 2001) or to the death of a former friend.”
Female bisexual kinship ties maintain social cohesion in a dolphin network (2010, background): “…associations among kin have only been documented in a few other vertebrate species to date, including some cetacean and primate species (e.g. pilot whales: Amos et al. 1993; bonobos: Hohmann et al. 1999; killer whales: Baird & Dill 2000; baboons: Palombit et al. 2001; humans: Neyer & Lang 2003).”
Friendships between males and lactating females in a free-ranging group of olive baboons (Papio hamadryas anubis): evidence from playback experiments (2008, unknown): “Alternatively, high-ranking females may competitively exclude lower ranking rivals from social access to male friends (Palombit et al. 2001).”
Sexual selection on aggressiveness in females: evidence from an experimental test with tree swallows (2008, unknown): “Female aggressiveness may be beneficial in the context of femalee female competition over resources or males in a variety of taxa (e.g. Jaeger et al. 1982; Gowaty & Wagner 1988; Rauch 1988; Summers 1989; Berglund et al. 1993; Kopachena & Falls 1993; Slagsvold & Lifjeld 1994; Walter & Trillmich 1994;”
Factors Affecting Reproduction and Mortality Among Baboons in the Okavango Delta, Botswana (2004, background): “Second, high-ranking females are more successful than lower-ranking females at competing for friendships with high-ranking males (Palombit et al., 2001).”
More than friends? Behavioural and genetic aspects of heterosexual associations in wild chacma baboons (2010, background): “It is, thus, possible that a minimum degree of relatedness may occasionally motivate females to engage in friendships with non-father males, for instance, when social access to the father is limited by female–female competition (Palombit et al. 2001).”
Potential causes and life-history consequences of sexual size dimorphism in mammals (2005, background): “Female chacma baboons have been observed to compete for male ‘friends’, which then protect infants from infanticide by newly immigrated alpha males, based on male rank and probability of paternity ( Palombit, Cheney & Seyfarth, 2001 ), both attributes that are likely to be highly associated with bod”