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Social preferences in stump‐tailed macaques ( Macaca arctoides ): Effects of companionship, kinship, and rearing
Author(s) -
MacKenzie Muriel M.,
McGrew W. C.,
Chamove Arnold S.
Publication year - 1985
Publication title -
developmental psychobiology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.055
H-Index - 93
eISSN - 1098-2302
pISSN - 0012-1630
DOI - 10.1002/dev.420180204
Subject(s) - kinship , kin recognition , psychology , interpersonal relationship , social psychology , social relation , developmental psychology , kin selection , biology , zoology , evolutionary biology , sociology , anthropology
Social preferences in the directionality of social behavioral patterns in a heterogeneous group of 26 stump‐tailed macaques ( Macaca arctoides ) were examined to see if kin recognition occurred. Four behavioral measures were analyzed: proximity, contact, grooming, and play. Three independent variables were examined: early companionship, condition of early rearing, and kinship. The latter was divided into partrilineal, matrilineal, and shared kinship. Partial correlational analysis showed that social preferences correlated most strongly with companionship, followed by kinship and rearing conditions. Within kinship, patrilineal and matrilineal effects differed markedly, suggesting that natural selection has operated differentially in a species in which normal child‐rearing is done by matrilineal kin.