Female hierarchy instability, male immigration and infanticide increase glucocorticoid levels in female chacma baboons

By A. Engh, J. Beehner, T. Bergman, Patricia L. Whitten, Rebekah R. Hoffmeier, R. Seyfarth, D. Cheney. 2006

174 citations recorded by the source corpus.

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

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In Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics

1. Joan B. Silk
2. D. Cheney
3. R. Seyfarth
4. S. Alberts
5. Jeanne Altmann
6. J. Beehner
7. T. Bergman
8. Roman M. Wittig

In Social Psychology

1. Joan B. Silk
2. D. Cheney
3. R. Seyfarth
4. J. Beehner
5. T. Bergman
6. R. Wrangham
7. S. Alberts
8. Jeanne Altmann

Citations in the corpus

• Social relationships among adult female baboons (Papio cynocephalus) II. Variation in the quality and stability of social bonds (2006, background): “Female baboons in Moremi experienced considerable distress after the sudden loss of preferred partners (Engh et al. 2006a), and subsequently increased the amount of time they spent grooming and the number of females that they groom.”
• Assessing dominance hierarchies: validation and advantages of progressive evaluation with Elo-rating (2011, background): “In a different study of baboons, 287 Engh et al (2006) assessed instability in female dominance hierarchies in a mere 288 descriptive way.”
• The adaptive value of sociality in mammalian groups (2007, background): “Engh and her colleagues analysed hormone levels in faeces collected from known female baboons in Moremi, Botswana (Engh et al. 2006b).”
• Vocal alliances in Chacma baboons (Papio hamadryas ursinus) (2007, background): “Although rare, occasional upheavals in the female dominance hierarchy do occur (Samuels et al. 1987; Engh et al. 2006b), and there is therefore always a potential for injury when a female intervenes in a dispute.”
• Strong and consistent social bonds enhance the longevity of female baboons. (2010, background): “The quality of females’ social relationships influences their ability to cope with stressful events [11–13] and is associated with variation in female reproductive success [9, 14].”
• The self-domestication hypothesis: evolution of bonobo psychology is due to selection against aggression (2012, background): “In this scenario selection would probably have been strongest against lethal male aggression (e.g. infanticide) and might have operated through female choice given the cost that female primates pay as a result of male aggression (Engh et al. 2006).”