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McGuire M, Vonk JM. In or out: Response slowing across housing conditions as a measure of affect in three Western lowland gorillas ( Gorilla gorilla gorilla). PeerJ 2020; 8:e9525. [PMID: 32728496 PMCID: PMC7357556 DOI: 10.7717/peerj.9525] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/08/2020] [Accepted: 06/21/2020] [Indexed: 11/20/2022] Open
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Background Individuals experiencing negative affect have shown response slowing, a longer latency to respond in relation to baseline, when presented with aversive stimuli. We assessed response slowing in three male gorillas housed in a bachelor group as a function of daytime and nighttime housing arrangements. Methods In both experiments, three gorillas were rewarded for touching a single image (baseline, non-threatening gorilla or threatening gorilla) on a touchscreen. In Experiment One, they completed 48 50-trial sessions across combinations of three nested daytime and three nighttime conditions. In Experiment Two, they completed eight 50-trial sessions with novel stimuli across two daytime conditions, which were nested within two nighttime conditions. Housing conditions represented different amounts of space and degree of choice. We predicted that the gorillas would show response slowing to threatening stimuli when space and choice were restricted. Results We did not observe response slowing in Experiment One, although daytime and nighttime conditions interacted to predict response latencies. The gorillas responded more slowly when they had access to indoors and outdoors overnight compared to when they were in their stalls or together in an indoor habitat, but only if they had been given access to both indoors and outdoors or locked in the indoor habitat the day before. In Experiment Two, the gorillas did show response slowing to threatening stimuli, but this pattern did not interact with housing conditions. Our results, although limited by a small sample, are somewhat consistent with those of a previous study that did not find significant response slowing for apes as a function of aversive testing conditions, although the procedure has been effective in identifying dysregulated fear (high fear in low threat conditions) in macaques. The utility of this paradigm for testing affect in apes awaits further evaluation.
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- Molly McGuire
- Zoo Miami, Miami, FL, USA.,Department of Psychology, Oakland University, Rochester, MI, USA
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- Department of Psychology, Oakland University, Rochester, MI, USA
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Non-breeding territoriality and the effect of territory size on aggression in the weakly electric fish, Gymnotus omarorum. Acta Ethol 2019. [DOI: 10.1007/s10211-019-00309-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/27/2022]
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Crast J, Bloomsmith MA, Jonesteller T. Effects of changing housing conditions on mangabey behavior (Cercocebus atys): Spatial density, housing quality, and novelty effects. Am J Primatol 2015; 77:1001-1014. [PMID: 26111730 PMCID: PMC4691223 DOI: 10.1002/ajp.22430] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/11/2014] [Revised: 03/16/2015] [Accepted: 04/28/2015] [Indexed: 11/08/2022]
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The separate influences of spatial density and housing quality on the behavior of captive animals are difficult to measure because the two factors are often intrinsically linked. Here, we recorded affiliative and agonistic behavior in adult sooty mangabeys in various housing situations, testing spatial density and housing quality changes separately (N = 26 experienced spatial density changes; N = 12 experienced housing quality changes). We varied spatial density by 50% while holding housing quality constant and we varied housing quality while holding spatial density constant (achieved by comparing two types of run-housing that varied in the amount of visual privacy and outdoor access). Each housing condition was one month in duration. Prior to collecting data in each housing condition, we evaluated the subjects' initial responses to the change in housing environment during 2-week novelty periods. Affiliative behavior did not change during the novelty periods. Agonistic behavior initially increased slightly when spatial density increased and it decreased significantly when spatial density decreased; it also decreased when subjects moved to housing that offered more visual privacy and outdoor space, indicating that the mangabeys were sensitive to these housing changes. After the novelty periods, affiliative behavior increased under higher spatial density, but remained unchanged across housing quality conditions; agonistic behavior remained unchanged across all conditions. Results suggest that a prolonged increase in spatial density led the mangabeys to adopt a tension-reduction coping strategy, in which the increase in affiliative behavior alleviates a presumed increase in social tension. Reducing visual privacy and choice did not affect the mangabeys' behavior, post-novelty period. Thus, like many other primates, the mangabeys managed tension by flexibly adapting to changes in their housing environment in ways that reduce the risk of severe aggression. This study highlights the importance of controlled behavioral studies in facilitating data-driven management decisions that promote animal welfare. Am. J. Primatol. 77:1001-1014, 2015. © 2015 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.
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- Jessica Crast
- Yerkes National Primate Research Center, Emory University, Atlanta,
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- Yerkes National Primate Research Center, Emory University, Atlanta,
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Sex Differences in the Development of Aggressive Behavior in Rhesus Macaques (Macaca mulatta). INT J PRIMATOL 2015. [DOI: 10.1007/s10764-015-9853-1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 23] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/07/2023]
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Vander Wal E, Yip H, McLoughlin PD. Sex-based differences in density-dependent sociality: an experiment with a gregarious ungulate. Ecology 2012; 93:206-12. [PMID: 22486100 DOI: 10.1890/11-0020.1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 24] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/18/2022]
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For animals living in natural or semi-natural settings, empirical data on how sociality changes in response to increasing population density are few, especially with respect to true conspecific density and not group size. However, insight into this line of research may be far-reaching--from understanding density dependence in sexual selection to improving models of disease transmission. Using elk (Cervus elaphus Linnaeus) held in enclosures, we conducted sex-stratified experiments to test how the frequency of dyadic pairings (interaction rate) and their quality (duration) responded to manipulations in exposure to density. Using proximity-logging radio collars we recorded when and for how long individuals shared a space within 1.4 m of each other. As predicted, males increased their interaction rate as density increased. Female interaction rates, however, increased initially as density increased but soon declined to become indistinguishable from rates at low density. Females interacted for longer periods at medium densities, whereas male interaction length clearly decreased as density increased. We highlight a sexually dichotomous, density-dependent response in sociality that has yet to be reported. In addition to furthering our understanding of sociobiology (e.g., implications of time constraints presented by density on dyadic interactions), our results have implications for managing communicable disease in gregarious species of livestock and wildlife.
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- E Vander Wal
- Department of Biology, University of Saskatchewan, 112 Science Place, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan S7N 5E2, Canada.
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Ross SR, Wagner KE, Schapiro SJ, Hau J. Ape behavior in two alternating environments: comparing exhibit and short-term holding areas. Am J Primatol 2011; 72:951-9. [PMID: 20623498 DOI: 10.1002/ajp.20857] [Citation(s) in RCA: 30] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/06/2022]
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In many facilities, primates are voluntarily transferred between different enclosures on a daily basis to facilitate animal husbandry and exhibit maintenance. This procedure is particularly relevant in the management of great apes living in zoos, where the requirements of functional management must be balanced with the desire to maintain enriching and naturalistic exhibit enclosures that benefit ape residents and attract the visiting public. In these settings, examinations of ape behavior and welfare typically focus exclusively on activity in the primary exhibit area. However, physical, social and sensory experiences unique to each area may shape different patterns of behavior. In the current study, zoo-living chimpanzees and gorillas were moved each day from exhibit areas to off-exhibit holding areas for a short duration as a part of regular management procedures. Behavioral data indicated species-specific reactions to the holding area, including increased aggression and self-directed behavior by chimpanzees and increased activity and prosocial behavior among gorilla subjects. Both species showed more feeding-foraging behavior while in the exhibit enclosure. Results suggest that holding areas may not meet all behavior needs of captive great apes and demonstrate the importance of including all components of the captive enclosure in comprehensive analyses of great ape behavior and welfare.
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- S R Ross
- Lester E. Fisher Center for the Study and Conservation of Apes, Lincoln Park Zoo, Chicago, Illinois 60614, USA.
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Melfi VA. There are big gaps in our knowledge, and thus approach, to zoo animal welfare: a case for evidence-based zoo animal management. Zoo Biol 2010; 28:574-88. [PMID: 19876912 DOI: 10.1002/zoo.20288] [Citation(s) in RCA: 66] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/11/2022]
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There are gaps in knowledge that hinder our ability within zoos to provide good animal welfare. This does not mean that zoos cannot or do not provide good welfare, only that currently this goal is hindered. Three reasons for these gaps are identified as: (1) there is an emphasis on the identification and monitoring of indicators that represent poor welfare and it is assumed that an absence of poor welfare equates to good welfare. This assumption is overly simplistic and potentially erroneous; (2) our understanding of how housing and husbandry (H&H) affects animals is limited to a small set of variables determined mostly by our anthropogenic sensitivities. Thus, we place more value on captive environmental variables like space and companionship, ignoring other factors that may have a greater impact on welfare, like climate; (3) finally, whether intentional or not, our knowledge and efforts to improve zoo animal welfare are biased to very few taxa. Most attention has been focused on mammals, notably primates, large cats, bears, and elephants, to the exclusion of the other numerous species about which very little is known. Unfortunately, the extent to which these gaps limit our ability to provide zoo animals with good welfare is exacerbated by our over reliance on using myth and tradition to determine zoo animal management. I suggest that we can fill these gaps in our knowledge and improve our ability to provide zoo animals with good welfare through the adoption of an evidence-based zoo animal management framework. This approach uses evidence gathered from different sources as a basis for making any management decisions, as good quality evidence increases the likelihood that these decisions result in good zoo animal welfare.
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- V A Melfi
- Field Conservation and Research, Whitley Wildlife Conservation Trust, Paignton Zoo Environmental Park, Totnes Road, Paignton, Devon TQ4 7EU, United Kingdom.
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Sha JCM, Gumert MD, Lee BPYH, Jones-Engel L, Chan S, Fuentes A. Macaque-human interactions and the societal perceptions of macaques in Singapore. Am J Primatol 2009; 71:825-39. [PMID: 19479953 DOI: 10.1002/ajp.20710] [Citation(s) in RCA: 99] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/08/2022]
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Humans and long-tailed macaques (Macaca fascicularis) interface in several locations in Singapore. We investigated six of these interface zones to assess the level of conflict between the two species. We observed macaque-to-human interactions and distributed questionnaires to residents and visitors of nature reserves. We observed an average of two macaque-to-human interactions per hour at the sites, which included affiliative or submissive behaviors (46.9%), aggression (19.1%), taking food and other items (18.5%) searching bins, cars, and houses (13.4%), and nonaggressive contact (2.1%). Two-thirds of interactions occurred when a human was carrying food or food cues, and one-quarter occurred when a human provoked macaques. Only 8% of interactions occurred without a clear human-triggered context. Our interview showed one-third of respondents experienced nuisance problems from macaques. They had items taken from them (50.5%) and received threats (31.9%). Residents reported more nuisance problems than visitors, and their perceptions toward macaques differed. Residents were more aware of the consequences of food provisioning and that there were regulations against feeding. Residents fed macaques less and held more negative sentiments toward macaques. Nearly half of the interviewed people held neutral attitudes toward macaques and only 26.2% of respondents thought conflict with macaques warranted urgent action. Nearly two-thirds of the respondents supported education programs to ameliorate human-macaque conflict, and less than 15% supported removing or eradicating macaques. 87.6% felt that it is importance to conserve and protect macaques. Our results show that human-macaque conflict exists in Singapore, but that it may not be severe. Human behavior is largely responsible for macaque-to-human interactions, and thus could be lessened with management of human behavior in interface zones (i.e. restrict food carrying and provocation). Moreover, our interviews shows people living in Singapore value macaques, do not wish them entirely removed, prefer education-based solutions, and consider conservation and protection of them important.
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Edeline E, Haugen TO, Weltzien FA, Claessen D, Winfield IJ, Stenseth NC, Vøllestad LA. Body downsizing caused by non-consumptive social stress severely depresses population growth rate. Proc Biol Sci 2009; 277:843-51. [PMID: 19923130 DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2009.1724] [Citation(s) in RCA: 35] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/12/2022] Open
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Chronic social stress diverts energy away from growth, reproduction and immunity, and is thus a potential driver of population dynamics. However, the effects of social stress on demographic density dependence remain largely overlooked in ecological theory. Here we combine behavioural experiments, physiology and population modelling to show in a top predator (pike Esox lucius) that social stress alone may be a primary driver of demographic density dependence. Doubling pike density in experimental ponds under controlled prey availability did not significantly change prey intake by pike (i.e. did not significantly change interference or exploitative competition), but induced a neuroendocrine stress response reflecting a size-dependent dominance hierarchy, depressed pike energetic status and lowered pike body growth rate by 23 per cent. Assuming fixed size-dependent survival and fecundity functions parameterized for the Windermere (UK) pike population, stress-induced smaller body size shifts age-specific survival rates and lowers age-specific fecundity, which in Leslie matrices projects into reduced population rate of increase (lambda) by 37-56%. Our models also predict that social stress flattens elasticity profiles of lambda to age-specific survival and fecundity, thus making population persistence more dependent on old individuals. Our results suggest that accounting for non-consumptive social stress from competitors and predators is necessary to accurately understand, predict and manage food-web dynamics.
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- Eric Edeline
- UPMC-Paris 6, UMR (CNRS) 7618, Laboratoire Biogéochimie et Ecologie des Milieux Continentaux, Ecole Normale Supérieure, 46 rue d'Ulm, 75230 Paris cedex 05, France.
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Videan EN, Fritz J. Effects of short- and long-term changes in spatial density on the social behavior of captive chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes). Appl Anim Behav Sci 2007. [DOI: 10.1016/j.applanim.2006.03.011] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/24/2022]
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Judge PG, Griffaton NS, Fincke AM. Conflict management by hamadryas baboons (Papio hamadryas hamadryas) during crowding: a tension-reduction strategy. Am J Primatol 2006; 68:993-1006. [PMID: 16892412 DOI: 10.1002/ajp.20290] [Citation(s) in RCA: 24] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/11/2022]
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Primates change a variety of behavioral responses during short-term exposure to crowding. Under crowded conditions, rates of aggression, submissive behavior, and affiliative behavior may increase or decrease. Different patterns of change among these three categories of response have been interpreted as various coping "strategies" for managing the increased risk of conflict under crowded conditions. Grooming is of particular interest because this behavior is known to have a calming influence on the recipient and could be used to manage conflict under tense situations. A captive group of nine hamadryas baboons (Papio hamadryas hamadryas) composed of two harems was observed under short-term crowding to determine whether this species adopts conflict-management strategies similar to those described in other primates. The aggression, submission, affiliation, and displacement activities of the six adults in the group (two males and four females) were recorded, and behaviors in their small indoor quarters was compared with baseline behaviors in the outdoor section of their enclosure, which had over 10 times more space. Repeated-measures analysis of variance (ANOVA) was used to compare behavioral rates during crowding with baseline rates recorded immediately after crowding and during matched controls collected at the same time of day as the crowding sessions. Aggression and submission rates did not change significantly across conditions. Huddling together and proximity increased during crowding, and females increased grooming of their harem male during crowding. Displacement activities (e.g., pacing and self-grooming) increased during crowding, but scratching, an indicator of anxiety in primates, did not. The pattern of behavior exhibited by this group conforms to an active "tension-reduction" strategy in which animals successfully reduce the higher risk of aggression during crowding.
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- P G Judge
- Psychology Department, Bucknell University, Lewisburg, Pennsylvania 17837, USA.
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Honess PE, Marin CM. Behavioural and physiological aspects of stress and aggression in nonhuman primates. Neurosci Biobehav Rev 2006; 30:390-412. [PMID: 16061285 DOI: 10.1016/j.neubiorev.2005.04.003] [Citation(s) in RCA: 88] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/26/2005] [Revised: 04/26/2005] [Accepted: 04/27/2005] [Indexed: 11/18/2022]
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There is considerable interest in the study of stress and aggression in primates as a model for their interpretation in humans. Despite methodological and interpretational problems associated with behavioural and physiological measurement and definition, a considerable body of literature exists on these phenomena in primates. In the course of reviewing this literature we examine examples of many of the sources of variation in stress and aggression, including species identity, sex, age, breeding and social status, individual temperament, background, learning and resource distribution. This is followed by an examination of the interaction between stress and aggression before reviewing the most important areas in which changes in both stress and aggression are measured. In particular we examine those studies covering social aspects of an animal's life, specifically relating to social isolation, crowding as well as group formation, composition and instability. This review reveals the complex and often contradictory nature of relationships, not just between an animal's physiology and its behaviour, but between its stress status and display or receipt of aggression.
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- P E Honess
- Department of Veterinary Services, University of Oxford, Parks Road, Oxford OX1 3PT, UK.
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Sannen A, Elsacker LV, Eens M. Effect of spatial crowding on aggressive behavior in a bonobo colony. Zoo Biol 2004. [DOI: 10.1002/zoo.20024] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/07/2022]
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Barrett GM, Shimizu K, Bardi M, Asaba S, Mori A. Endocrine correlates of rank, reproduction, and female-directed aggression in male Japanese macaques (Macaca fuscata). Horm Behav 2002; 42:85-96. [PMID: 12191651 DOI: 10.1006/hbeh.2002.1804] [Citation(s) in RCA: 116] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/22/2022]
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Fecal testosterone and cortisol levels in six wild male Japanese macaques (Macaca fuscata), three of high rank and three of low, were analyzed to investigate the hormonal correlates of rank, reproduction, and female-directed aggression. The study encompassed the 6-month mating season, from October 1999 to March 2000, during which time 251 fecal samples and approximately 550 h of behavioral data were collected. Dominant males were not found to differ from subordinate males in overall rates of aggressive or copulatory behavior. Likewise, testosterone excretion, which peaked in the early part of the mating season and declined gradually thereafter, did not differ significantly by rank. High-ranking males, however, were observed to excrete significantly higher levels of cortisol than low-ranking males, suggesting that dominance may carry costs. The two hormones were found to be inversely correlated in the two most dominant males, but independent in all others. Rate of noncontact aggression was significantly correlated with testosterone, while no significant relationships were observed between testosterone and contact aggression nor any aspect of copulatory behavior. These data further support the contention that social subordinance and stress are not inexorably linked, as well as suggest that elevated glucocorticoid concentrations in high-ranking males may reflect increased metabolic costs associated with dominant male reproductive strategy.
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- Gordon M Barrett
- Department of Ecology, Kyoto University Primate Research Institute, 41-2 Kanrin, Inuyama, Aichi 484-8506, Japan.
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This is the first study to investigate the short-term effects of high population density on captive chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes). Subjects of the study were 45 chimpanzees living in five different groups at the Yerkes Regional Primate Research Center. The groups were observed under two conditions: 1) when they had access to both the indoor and outdoor sections of their enclosures; 2) during cold days when they were locked into the indoor runs, which reduced the available space by more than half. Under the high-density condition, allogrooming and submissive greetings decreased, but juvenile play increased. Remarkably, the rate of various forms of agonistic behavior, such as aggression, bluff charge, bluff display, and hooting, occurred less frequently under the high-density condition. This general decrease in adult social activity, including agonistic behavior, can be interpreted as an inhibition strategy to reduce opportunities for conflict when interindividual distances are reduced. This strategy is probably effective only in the short run, however. Behavioral indicators of anxiety, such as rough scratching and yawning, showed elevated rates, suggesting increased social tension under the high-density condition.
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- F Aureli
- Yerkes Regional Primate Research Center, Emory University, Atlanta, GA 30322, USA
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We have previously studied the relationship between social subordinance (by approach-avoidance criteria) and physiology among male olive baboons (Papio anubis) living freely in a national park in Africa. In stable hierarchies, subordinate individuals have elevated basal glucocorticoid concentrations and a blunted glucocorticoid response to stress, as well as a prompt suppression of testosterone concentrations during stress. These facets have been interpreted as reflecting the chronic stress of social subordinance. In the present report, we find these endocrine features do not mark all subordinate individuals. Instead, endocrine profiles differed among subordinate males as a function of particular stylistic traits of social behavior. A subset of subordinate males was identified who had significantly high rates of consortships, a behavior usually shown only by high-ranking males. Such behavior predicted the beginning transition to dominance, as these males were significantly more likely than other subordinates to have moved to the dominant half of the hierarchy over the subsequent 3 years. In keeping with this theme of emerging from subordinance, these individuals had also significantly larger glucocorticoid stress-responses, another feature typical of dominant males. However, these subordinate males also had significantly elevated basal glucocorticoid concentrations; it is suggested that this reflects the stressfulness of their overt and precocious strategy of reproductive competition. In support of this, subordinate males with high rates of covert "stolen copulations" did not show elevated basal glucocorticoid concentrations. A second subset of subordinate males were the most likely to initiate fights are to displace aggression onto a third party after losing a fight. these males had significantly or near-significantly elevated testosterone concentrations, compared to the remaining subordinate cohort. Moreover, these males had significantly lower basal glucocorticoid concentrations; this echoes an extensive literature showing that the availability of a displacement behavior (whether aggressive or otherwise) after a stressor decreases glucocorticoid secretion. In support of this interpretation suggesting that it was the initiation of these aggressive acts which attenuated glucocorticoid secretion, there was no association between glucocorticoid concentrations and participation (independent of initiation) in aggressive interactions. Thus, these findings suggest that variables other than rank alone may be associated with distinctive endocrine profiles, and that even in the face of a social stressor (such as subordinance), particular behavioral styles may attenuate the endocrine indices of stress.
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- C E Virgin
- Department of Biological Sciences, Stanford University, California 94305, USA
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Hardie TJ. Crowding and violent behavior: the influence of patient density on violent and self-harming behaviour at a medium secure unit. MEDICINE, SCIENCE, AND THE LAW 1999; 39:161-166. [PMID: 10332164 DOI: 10.1177/002580249903900211] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/23/2023]
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This study examines the influence of patient density (crowding) and number of potential perpetrators on the number of incidents of violence and self-harm at a medium secure unit. Of 2,053 incidents examined over a period of 974 days, 73% were perpetrated by 20% of the patients, the majority by patients identified as potential perpetrators. Increased patient density was not associated with increased risk of violence or self-harm. There was no evidence to suggest that the presence of those identified as potentially violent or self-harming increased the risk of others engaging in such behaviour.
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Judge PG. Rhesus monkey behaviour under diverse population densities: coping with long-term crowding. Anim Behav 1997; 54:643-62. [PMID: 9299049 DOI: 10.1006/anbe.1997.0469] [Citation(s) in RCA: 77] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/05/2023]
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A popular view is that high population density promotes behavioural pathology, particularly increased aggression. In contrast, according to a coping model, some primates have behavioural mechanisms (e.g. formal displays, reconciliation and grooming) that regulate social tensions and control the negative consequences of crowding. Seven captive rhesus monkey groups, Macaca mulattawere observed over a wide range of population densities where high-density groups were over 2000 times more crowded than low-density free-ranging groups. As density increased, male rhesus monkeys increased grooming and huddling but did not increase rates of aggression. Females increased all categories of behaviour examined (heavy aggression, mild aggression, formal bared-teeth displays, grooming and huddling), but the increases were not distributed uniformly to all classes of partners. Females increased only grooming, huddling and appeasement displays to males, increased only aggression and huddling with kin and increased all categories of behaviour to non-kin adult females. There were no differences in the percentage of aggressive conflicts reconciled across density conditions. Increased density had different effects on particular relationships. Relationships between females and males were characterized by a coping pattern in which animals modified their behaviour in ways that may decrease aggression under crowded conditions. Female relationships with kin and non-kin were characterized by increases in both aggression and friendly interactions as density increased. The different patterns of response to higher density may reflect different strategies depending on the strength and stability of relationships and the potential consequences if certain relationships are disrupted.1997The Association for the Study of Animal Behaviour
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- PG Judge
- Yerkes Regional Primate Research Center and Department of Psychology, Emory University
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Call J, Judge PG, de Waal FBM. Influence of kinship and spatial density on reconciliation and grooming in rhesus monkeys. Am J Primatol 1996; 39:35-45. [DOI: 10.1002/(sici)1098-2345(1996)39:1<35::aid-ajp3>3.0.co;2-t] [Citation(s) in RCA: 24] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/22/1995] [Accepted: 10/05/1995] [Indexed: 11/07/2022]
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Sapolsky RM. Endocrinology alfresco: psychoendocrine studies of wild baboons. RECENT PROGRESS IN HORMONE RESEARCH 1993; 48:437-68. [PMID: 8441854 DOI: 10.1016/b978-0-12-571148-7.50020-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 137] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/30/2023]
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- R M Sapolsky
- Department of Biological Sciences, Stanford University, California 94305
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Ray JC, Sapolsky RM. Styles of male social behavior and their endocrine correlates among high-ranking wild baboons. Am J Primatol 1992; 28:231-250. [DOI: 10.1002/ajp.1350280402] [Citation(s) in RCA: 71] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/15/1991] [Revised: 05/22/1992] [Indexed: 11/06/2022]
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Demaria C, Thierry B. Lack of effects of environmental changes on agonistic behaviour patterns in a stabilizing group of stumptailed macaques (Macaca arctoides). Aggress Behav 1989. [DOI: 10.1002/1098-2337(1989)15:5<353::aid-ab2480150504>3.0.co;2-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/09/2022]
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Moor-Jankowski J, Mahoney CJ. Chimpanzees in captivity: humane handling and breeding within the confines imposed by medical research and testing. Position paper for the Jane Goodall Institute Workshop on Psychological Well-Being of Captive Chimpanzees 1st to 3rd December, 1987. J Med Primatol 1989; 18:1-13. [PMID: 2709398 DOI: 10.1002/ajp.1350180102] [Citation(s) in RCA: 150] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/14/1988] [Accepted: 01/12/1989] [Indexed: 01/02/2023]
Affiliation(s)
- J Moor-Jankowski
- Laboratory for Experimental Medicine and Surgery in Primates, New York University School of Medicine, (LEMSIP), New York
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Novak MA, Suomi SJ. Psychological Weil-Being of Primates in Captivity * Commentary: Joy A. Mench and W. Ray Stricklin. ILAR J 1989. [DOI: 10.1093/ilar.31.3.5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/12/2022] Open
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Nash LT, Chilton SM. Space or novelty?: Effects of altered cage size onGalago behavior. Am J Primatol 1986; 10:37-49. [DOI: 10.1002/ajp.1350100105] [Citation(s) in RCA: 29] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/07/1984] [Accepted: 08/27/1985] [Indexed: 11/10/2022]
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Sapolsky RM. Endocrine aspects of social instability in the olive baboon (Papio anubis). Am J Primatol 1983; 5:365-379. [DOI: 10.1002/ajp.1350050406] [Citation(s) in RCA: 169] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/12/1983] [Revised: 08/06/1983] [Indexed: 11/09/2022]
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Johnson DF, Modahl KB, Eaton GG. Dominance status of adult male Japanese macaques: Relationship to female dominance status, male mating behaviour, seasonal changes, and developmental changes. Anim Behav 1982. [DOI: 10.1016/s0003-3472(82)80049-3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/24/2022]
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Nieuwenhuijsen K, de Waal FBM. Effects of spatial crowding on social behavior in a chimpanzee colony. Zoo Biol 1982. [DOI: 10.1002/zoo.1430010103] [Citation(s) in RCA: 74] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/09/2022]
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Coss RG, Burgess JW. Jewel fish retain juvenile schooling pattern after crowded development. Dev Psychobiol 1981; 14:451-7. [PMID: 7196851 DOI: 10.1002/dev.420140507] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/24/2023]
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Juvenile jewel fish were crowded between 100 and 160 days of age (15 fish/3.6 liters) in a double-walled aquarium sharing water flow with uncrowded siblings (15 fish/69.4 liters). Photographs of schooling in a 73-liter aquarium were made after 30 and 60 days of crowding. Distances maintained between each fish and its 1st-5th nearest neighbors and orientation angles between 1st nearest neighbors were measured. After 30 days, crowded juveniles maintained significant nonrandomly aggregated distances to their 1st-5th neighbors, spacing significantly closer than uncrowded siblings. After 60 days, crowded juveniles maintained both closer, nonrandom distances to 1st-5th neighbors and significantly more parallel orientation to 1st nearest neighbors. Thus, whereas uncrowded juveniles followed the normal developmental pattern of dispersion, crowded siblings retained juvenile spacing behavior.
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Eaton GG, Modahl KB, Johnson DF. Aggressive behavior in a confined troop of Japanese macaques: Effects of density, season, and gender. Aggress Behav 1981. [DOI: 10.1002/1098-2337(1981)7:2<145::aid-ab2480070207>3.0.co;2-m] [Citation(s) in RCA: 39] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/05/2022]
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Polynomial regression was used to construct linear descriptive models for age-related behavioral changes among socially-living, captive vervet monkeys. Seventeen social acts were divided by gender into performer (director) and recipient to produce 68 predictive equation. The aptness of these models was examined by an analysis of residuals, including a lack-of-fit F test. Consistency was further validated by a sign test comparison of predicted and observed means. A log10 (Y + 1) transformation produced satisfactory fits for 51 of the 68 parameters. Only 1 behavior (male gape D) had a nonsignificant cumulative F value and low coefficient of multiple determination. Although the remaining 16 acts did show age relationships, they exhibited a significant lack of fit to the proposed model. A table of predictive equations is presented as a mathematical model of behavioral development in vervet monkeys.
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Rasmussen DR, Rasmussen KL. Social ecology of adult males in a confined troop of Japanese macaques (Macaca fuscata). Anim Behav 1979. [DOI: 10.1016/0003-3472(79)90180-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/27/2022]
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Fairbanks LA, McGuire M, Kerber W. Effects of group size, composition, introduction technique and cage apparatus on aggression during group formations in rhesus monkeys. Psychol Rep 1978; 42:327-33. [PMID: 417359 DOI: 10.2466/pr0.1978.42.1.327] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/15/2022]
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Aggression directed toward rhesus monkey females was monitored for 2 wk. following group formation under several experimental conditions which included: (a) variation in the number of females (6, 12, 18) and the number of males (1, 2); (b) modifications in the cage apparatus (stripped, boxes and pipes, and visual barriers); and (c) differences in introduction technique (unfamiliar animals vs combination of two pre-existing groups). None of these treatments produced significant differences in the amount of aggression received per female. It was concluded that the extreme conditions inherent in the formation of a new group overshadowed the effects of physical and social variables which might have influenced aggression under more stable circumstances.
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Clark TW. Agonistic behavior in a transplanted troop of Japanese macaques: Arashiyama west. Primates 1978. [DOI: 10.1007/bf02373231] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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Friend T, Polan C, McGilliard M. Free Stall and Feed Bunk Requirements Relative to Behavior, Production and Individual Feed Intake in Dairy Cows. J Dairy Sci 1977. [DOI: 10.3168/jds.s0022-0302(77)83835-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 83] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/19/2022]
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Anderson B, Erwin N, Flynn D, Lewis L, Erwin J. Effects of short-term crowding on aggression in captive groups of pigtail monkeys (macaca nemestrina). Aggress Behav 1977. [DOI: 10.1002/1098-2337(1977)3:1<33::aid-ab2480030104>3.0.co;2-x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 25] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/06/2022]
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Elton RH, Anderson BV. The social behavior of a group of baboons (Papio anubis) under artificial crowding. Primates 1977. [DOI: 10.1007/bf02382961] [Citation(s) in RCA: 23] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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Erwin N, Erwin J. Social density and aggression in captive groups of pigtail monkeys (Macaca nemestrina). ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 1976. [DOI: 10.1016/0304-3762(76)90059-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/27/2022]
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Erwin J, Anderson B, Erwin N, Lewis I, Flynn D. Aggression in captive pigtail monkey groups: effects of provision of cover. Percept Mot Skills 1976; 42:319-24. [PMID: 815877 DOI: 10.2466/pms.1976.42.1.319] [Citation(s) in RCA: 22] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/24/2022]
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To assess the influence of provision of "cover" on aggressive behavior in captive nonhuman primate groups, concrete cylinders were introduced into rooms in which six groups of pigtail monkeys resided. Basal incidence of aggression was measured prior to introduction of the cylinders and during their presence in the rooms. Four groups, which underwent little or no change in group composition during the study, exhibited substantially less aggression when cover was available than when it was not. Moderate and extreme changes in group composition occurred in two groups; these changes resulted in slight and dramatic increases in aggression, respectively, at the times when the changes occurred. Subjects frequently used the cylinders to avoid the concrete cylinders resulted in decreased aggression in stable groups but did not prevent aggression in groups which underwent moderate or extreme social change.
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Arave CW, Albright JL, Sinclair CL. Behavior, milk yield, and leucocytes of dairy cows in reduced space and isolation. J Dairy Sci 1974; 57:1497-501. [PMID: 4475052 DOI: 10.3168/jds.s0022-0302(74)85094-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 31] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/10/2023]
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