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T. J. Bergman J. C. Beehner D. L. Cheney R. M. Seyfarth P. L. Whitten 《Behavioral ecology and sociobiology》2006,59(4):480-489
To date, research on testosterone and behavior has focused on individuals, even when studying social behaviors that necessarily
involve multiple participants. Here, we explore male responses to other males of different dominance ranks and testosterone
levels in a population of wild baboons. In chacma baboons (Papio hamadryas ursinus) of the Okavango Delta, a male’s testosterone is related to his rank trajectory and, therefore, the threat he poses to other
males. To examine the effects of testosterone and rank on male–male interactions, we used playback experiments to measure
how a target male responded to the simulated approach of another male, scoring responses by whether or not the subject moved
away from the speaker in the first minute. High testosterone subjects did not move away from the speaker more often than low
testosterone subjects, but high testosterone callers elicited a move more often than low testosterone callers. When the combined
testosterone of the subject and caller was high, moves were most common. The rank relationship between subject and caller
did not predict moves, but the effect of combined testosterone on moving was most pronounced in adjacently ranked males. Adjacently
ranked, high testosterone males are the most likely to be competing for each others’ rank, and our experiments on these dyads
elicited the most moves. Both behavioral and experimental observations indicate that testosterone may be more important than
the rank relationship in predicting the outcome of male–male interactions. Furthermore, combined information on the testosterone
of both males was the best predictor of results, highlighting the utility of dyadic analyses when relating testosterone to
behavior. 相似文献
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J. C. Beehner T. J. Bergman D. L. Cheney R. M. Seyfarth P. L. Whitten 《Behavioral ecology and sociobiology》2006,59(4):469-479
Despite the many benefits that testosterone has on male reproduction, sustaining high levels of testosterone for long periods
can be costly. The challenge hypothesis predicts that males will show temporarily sustained elevations of testosterone at
critical periods, counterbalanced by decreased levels during noncritical periods. We investigated male testosterone measures
extracted from fecal samples in a group of chacma baboons (Papio hamadryas ursinus) living in the Okavango Delta, Botswana. Because rank serves as a proxy for competition for mates, we examined how male testosterone
was related to dominance rank, age, aggression, and mating activity. Males showed an elevation in testosterone at maturity;
young adult males had the highest testosterone levels followed by a steady decline with age. Among dispersing males, testosterone
was temporarily elevated in the month following dispersal. After controlling for age, testosterone and rank were unrelated,
but testosterone and changes in rank were positively correlated, such that males rising in rank had higher testosterone than
males falling in rank. Thus, for males in this group, testosterone was predictive of a male's rank trajectory, or future rank.
Similarly, male testosterone levels predicted future, rather than current, mating activity. Finally, male testosterone and
aggression rates were unrelated during stable periods in the dominance hierarchy but positively related during unstable periods
when high ranks were being contested. In general, our results support the challenge hypothesis with males exhibiting elevated
testosterone in association with the acquisition of high rank (ensuring access to mates), rather than with mating itself. 相似文献
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R. W. Byrne A. Whiten S. P. Henzi F. M. McCulloch 《Behavioral ecology and sociobiology》1993,33(4):233-246
Summary Populations of baboon (Papio sp.) at geographic and climatic extremes for the genus show a tendency to one-male organization, whereas most baboons live in multimale social groups; this effect has been attributed largely to limitation of food supply, but baboons' complex diet has hindered proper nutritional analyses. To test these optimal-diet explanations of social variation, we quantified intake and used phytochemical analysis of foods to compare the nutrition, during seasonal changes, of two groups of mountain baboons (P. ursinus) living at different altitudes of a continuous grassland habitat. The majority of plant foods were eaten uniquely by one or other group, though their altitudinal separation was only 400 m, and the time budget of feeding choices varied with age-sex class as well as season. Converting to a common currency of nutrients reveals that baboons gained the same yield from a unit time spent foraging (whether this is measured in edible dry weight, or simply protein) in both groups, despite their differing mean altitude, whereas seasonal variation was large and statistically significant. Increased feeding time at the winter bottleneck made no effective compensation for the poorer food yields: in late winter there was a minimum for daily nutrient gain at both altitudes. Apparently this population is already at an extreme for the time animals devote to foraging in winter, when they rely on inconspicuous and slow-to-harvest swollen shoot bases and underground plant storage organs. Since an individual's nutrient yield does not vary with altitude, we conclude that socioecological parameters are effectively optimized for feeding. Since contest competition is absent, this adjustment of foraging efficiency is largely through the effect of differential density on scramble competition. Differences in social structure are considered to be a secondray consequence of optimal foraging, mediated through altitudinal variation in either population density or in day range limits. 相似文献
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We investigated the long-standing premise in behavioral ecology that the environment affects behavior and demography. We
did this by evaluating the extent to which year-to-year variability in the behavioral ecology of a nonhuman primate population
could be modeled from meteorological patterns. Data on activity profiles and home range use for baboons (Papio cynocephalus) in Amboseli, Kenya, were obtained over a 10-year period for three social groups: two completely wild-foraging ones, and
a third that supplemented its diet with refuse from a nearby tourist lodge. The relationships across years among activity
budgeting, travel distance, group size, and measures of temperature and rainfall patterns differed among the social groups.
Although meteorological variation generally correlated with behavioral variation in the completely wild-foraging groups, different
weather variables and direction of relationships resulted for each group. In addition, different relationships among variables
were found before and after home-range shifts. The food-enhanced group spent half as much time foraging as did the other groups
and therefore could be used to evaluate the relative extent to which foraging time was a limiting factor for resting and social
time. Under their relaxed ecological conditions, the food-enhanced animals increased resting time much more than social time.
These findings, combined with supplementary information on the population, lead us to suggest that baboons use a suite of
interrelated responses to ecological variability that includes not only changes in activity budgets, but also home-range shifts,
changes in the length of the active period, and changes in group size through fissions. Moreover, our results imply that group
differences as well as interpopulational and interspecific differences in behavioral ecology provide significant sources of
variability. Therefore, social groups rather than populations may be the appropriate unit of analysis for understanding the
behavioral ecology of baboons and other highly social primates. The different patterns we observed among groups may have fitness
consequences for the individuals in those groups and thereby affect population structure over time.
Received: 18 February 1995/Accepted after revision: 6 January 1996 相似文献
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