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A comparative study of sociality and prosociality in geladas, Theropithecus gelada, and mandrills, Mandrillus Sphinx
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Autores:
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Ortega Ballesteros, Leticia
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Tipo de documento:
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texto impreso
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Editorial:
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Universidad Complutense de Madrid, 2017-07-14
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application/pdf
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Nota general:
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info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
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Estado = No publicado
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Materia = Ciencias Biomédicas: Biología: Mamíferos
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Tipo = Tesis
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Resumen:
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Sociality or group living has evolved independently in many animal taxa, but only in some of them it is based on social bonds between group members that are serviced through the exchange of a variety of social behaviours with multiple partners. This bonded sociality of nonhuman (and human) primates and of a few other taxa stands out for its reliance on prosociality or cooperation between individuals who typically know well one another and who engage in long-term, highly individualized partnerships. The patterns of sociality and prosociality observed in primates reflect trade-offs between several antagonistic but equally welfare- and fitness-enhancing activities and, ultimately, are the outcome of the
way the individuals skilfully manage their inevitable conflicts of interest through strategies of aggressive competition, cooperation and post-conflict reconciliation. Contemporary theory on primate sociality and prosociality emphasizes the need for integrating socioecology (i.e., ecological, demographic and social factors), phylogeny (i.e., evolutionary history) and life history (i.e., life history traits) in any account of the proximate and ultimate causes of variation in primate social systems. The present research was aimed to study sociality and prosociality in two groups of African papionins, the gelada (Theropithecus gelada) or montane baboon and the mandrill (Mandrillus sphinx) or forest baboon, housed in rather similarly naturalized, sized and vegetated enclosures in captivity...
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En línea:
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https://eprints.ucm.es/id/eprint/49213/1/T40212.pdf
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