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Behavior of Juvenile Yellow‐bellied Marmots: Play and Social Integration
Author(s) -
Nowicki Stephen,
Armitage Kenneth B.
Publication year - 2010
Publication title -
zeitschrift für tierpsychologie
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.739
H-Index - 74
eISSN - 1439-0310
pISSN - 0044-3573
DOI - 10.1111/j.1439-0310.1979.tb00674.x
Subject(s) - juvenile , population , adaptive behavior , biology , psychology , social integration , social function , developmental psychology , zoology , ecology , humanities , sociology , demography , anthropology , philosophy
This study is a quantitative examination of the behavior of juvenile yellow‐bellied marmots ( Marmota flaviventris ), especially play, and an attempt to relate play to the social and population biology of marmots. An hypothesis of adaptive fine‐tuning (social integration) of individual behavioral traits through play is advanced. While the data do not directly support social integration as a function of play, the results are a sine qua non of this hypothesis.