To fission or to fusion: effects of community size on wild chimpanzee (Pan troglodytes verus) social organisation

By J. Lehmann, Christophe Boesch. Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology, 2004

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

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Do social networks of female northern long-eared bats vary with reproductive period and age? (2010, background): “These dynamics result in variable group size and composition and have been most notably described for ungulates, marine mammals, primates, elephants, and, more recently, bats (Archie et al. 2006; Connor et al. 2000; Conradt and Roper 2005; Cross et al. 2005; Kerth 2008; Lehmann and Boesch 2004; Luss”
Socioecological adaptations by chimpanzees, Pan troglodytes verus, inhabiting an anthropogenically impacted habitat (2012, background): “However, it is also possible that the Bossou chimpanzee community shows reduced fissionefusion events compared with other communities owing to its small size (as proposed by Lehmann & Boesch 2004).”
Fission‐Fusion Dynamics (2008, background): “…factors (e.g., group size, population sex ratio, number of simultaneously receptive females) that are known to influence the degree of spatial cohesion among animals (Lehmann and Boesch 2004), the modeling approach is sufficiently versatile to accommodate the inclusion of these kinds of variables.”
Sociality of the dispersing sex: The nature of social bonds in West African female chimpanzees, Pan troglodytes (2009, unknown): “Average party size in Taı̈ varies between five and seven individuals, depending on overall group size (Lehmann & Boesch 2004).”
Social and ecological determinants of fission-fusion dynamics in the spotted hyaena (2008, background): “Subgroups lasted longer for hyaenas ðX ¼ 56 minÞ than for chimpanzees (X ¼ 25 min; Lehmann & Boesch 2004), but were shorter than those observed for Doubtful Sound dolphins (X > 24 h; Lusseau et al. 2003) or lions (X ¼ 48 to 75 h; Packer et al. 1990).”
Fission–fusion social systems as a strategy for coping with ecological constraints: a primate case (2007, background): “Anderson et al. 2002; Chapman et al. 1994; Itani and Suzuki 1967; Wrangham 1986b) and demographic factors (Goodall 1986; Lehmann and Boesch 2004; Newton-Fisher 1999a; Newton-Fisher et al. 2000).”
Fissioning minimizes ranging costs in spider monkeys: a multiple-level approach (2009, unknown): “There are however some studies that are inconsistent with this reasoning: Symington (1988) found ranging costs for the formation of large subgroups in spider monkeys, and Lehmann and Boesch (2004) found the contrary effect in chimpanzees (Lehmann and Boesch 2004).”
Kin biased investment in wild chimpanzees (2006, background): “Average party size represents only 11% to 22% of the actual community size and changes in party composition occur about every 25 minutes in Tai chimpanzees (Boesch & Boesch-Achermann, 2000; Lehmann & Boesch, 2004 ).”
Greetings promote cooperation and reinforce social bonds among spotted hyaenas (2011, background): “…societies of humans and other apes (e.g. chimpanzees, Pan troglodytes, and bonobos, Pan paniscus: Symington 1990; Rodseth et al. 1991; de Waal 1997; Lehmann & Boesch 2004), some monkeys (e.g. spider monkeys, Ateles spp., and tufted capuchins, Cebus apella nigritus: Chapman et al. 1995; Alfaro…”
Nonrandom association patterns at northern long- eared bat maternity roosts (2007, background): “…the subgroup size and composition of chimpanzees varies with predation pressure (Sakura 1994), the presence of reproductive females (Hashimoto et al. 2001), the quality and patchiness of food sources (Matsumoto-Oda et al. 1998), and the size of the whole social unit (Lehmann and Boesch 2004).”
Does promiscuous mating preclude female choice? Female sexual strategies in chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes verus) of the Taï National Park, Côte d’Ivoire (2005, background): “Detailed information on the history and changing demographics of these communities can be found in Boesch and Boesch-Achermann (2000) and Lehmann and Boesch (2004).”