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Two high-ranking adult male chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes) of M group in the Mahale Mountains National Park, Tanzania, tried to get a newborn female infant of an adult female who
was born in M group. The mother was not seen to mate with these adult males during the probable conception cycle of the infant,
but she disappeared from the group during the later cycle, when she may have been inseminated by a male of one of the neighboring
unit groups. The adult males failed to get the infant because the grandmother of the newborn and her female friend cooperated
to protect the mother and infant from attacks by the males. The sexual selection hypothesis for infanticide by adult male
chimpanzees holds for this observed case. The sudden disappearance of another infant, a healthy female, strongly suggests
the killing of female infants too. Therefore, the asserted male-biased infanticide in chimpanzees appears to be less tenable. 相似文献
2.
There have been no reports of infanticide in wild gelada baboons and it has been argued that infanticide is not necessary
in geladas, since the birth interval of female gelada can be shortened after takeover of a unit by a new leader male without
infanticide. However, we observed an instance of infanticide in a newly-found wild gelada population in the Arsi Region of
Ethiopia.
After a leader male of the unit was severely wounded by a leopard attack, he was quite weakened. The second male of the unit,
a young adult male, became the leader of the unit three weeks later, but the former leader continued to stay in the unit as
a second male. After a week, two other adult males joined the unit which, therefore, came to include four adult males. The
infanticide took place nine days later. The perpetrator was one of the immigrant males and he showed great interest in the
mother of the unweaned victim infant. Although the perpetrator copulated with her after the infanticide, the usurper was found
to own all three adult females after two weeks following the infanticide; i.e. the perpetrator could not own any female. The
wounded former leader showed conspicuous protective behavior towards the victim's mother and the dead infant.
One possible explanation for the occurrence of infanticide in this population of geladas is as follows. Gelada males in this
area may be able to join units more easily to form multi-male units but then have shorter tenure in the units. Facing the
unstable condition of units, they may sometimes engage in infanticide to increase their breeding opportunities, even before
becoming a leader. 相似文献
3.
In the Mahale Mountains National Park, Tanzania, a young adult male chimpanzee was observed to feed on a 3-month-old male
infant of the same unit-group. Four other adult males and an adult female shared the carcass. The mother of the victim had
immigrated from a neighboring unit-group four years previously. Circumstantial evidence strongly suggests that the first-observed
cannibal male also killed the infant. The adult male and the mother of the victim had been familiar socially and sexually
with each other since the female immigrated. Since the mother of the victim had usually been ranging in the peripheral part
of the unit-group's range, i.e., the overlapping area of the two unit-group's ranges during pregnancy and soon after birth,
the infanticidal male might have had reason to suspect the paternity of her infant. Four such cases of within-group cannibalism
by adult males suggest that the female range and association pattern before and after parturition are key factors allowing
an infant to survive. The possibility of male-biased infanticide is also discussed. 相似文献
4.
Mauvis A. Gore 《Primates; journal of primatology》1986,27(2):205-214
Theory suggests that it is in the interest of an infant to garner more care than its mother is selected to provide and that
a rival sibling would curtail care from the mother. Thus delayed conception in the mother would be of advantage to the infant.
One method of achieving this result would be to interfere with the mother's potential matings. To test this theory, the conflict
between mothers and their infants in relation to maximizing inclusive fitness has been studied inMacaca fascicularis and infant interference has been observed. Focal animal samples were taken on 8 mothers and their 13 infants. Interactions
analyzed were those between the mother and (1) an adult male, (2) her infant, (3) an adult female, (4) her infant and an adult
male, (5) her infant and an adult female. Only explicit behaviours were analyzed. The infant's interference was found to be
significantly related to its mother's mating, and this produced a deterring effect on the male. Infants did not interfere
with any female's matings other than those of their mother. The interference was related to the number of mother-male contacts.
In mothers that did subsequently conceive, infant interference at mating increased up to the mother's conception date and
decreased thereafter. By contrast to the infants direct method, mothers approached the conflict indirectly. There were significantly
more contacts and mounts with males in their infant's absence, they reacted negatively to their infant only when it had interfered,
they were more lenient in the presence of an adult female than with an adult male, and they avoided their infant's presence
at mother-male contacts. No significant sex bias in interference or the number of contacts with mother-male pairs has been
found. There are indications of a sibship pattern of interference. 相似文献
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Pascale Sicotte 《Primates; journal of primatology》2000,41(1):93-101
In mountain gorillas (Gorilla g. beringei), male immigration in bi-sexual units is rare. This paper presents the case of a nearly weaned male infant gorilla who followed
his mother in her transfer. This case was recorded in the study population at the Kariske Research Center in 1988. The data
come from observation in Group B (on 12 days just prior to the transfer and on 54 days after the transfer over a period of
6 months). The situation of the infant did match the conditions in which infanticide occurs in gorillas, but he was not killed,
despite receiving male aggression and being wounded twice. In fact, both the mother and the infant received male aggression
more frequently than the long term residents in the group. The aggression received by the mother decreased after she mated
with the males and after she weaned the infant. The aggression received by the infant, however, did not decrease after his
mother mated with the males, and increased in intensity. The infant reacted fearfully to male aggression, in marked contrast
to his mother, who reacted either with indifference, or by simply avoiding the males. The aggression eventually stopped, and
the infant became a blackback in Group B. Evolutionarily, the death of the infant would not have markedly accelerated the
mother's return to estrus, but the death of the infant could still have benefitted the males, by decreasing the reproductive
output of a competitor. Adult male gorillas are also presumably selected to resist male immigration. Proximately, the aggression
directed towards the infant was not related to mating access to the mother. The sex of the infant may contribute to explain
the post-transfer male aggression, but data on the integration of old female infants in a new group is needed to test whether
the sex of the infant has an effect on their vulnerability to infanticide. Also, the intense fear displayed by the infant
may have played a role in prompting male aggression. 相似文献
6.
Brandie L. Littlefield 《Primates; journal of primatology》2010,51(1):83-86
Two infanticides occurred after a male takeover in a population of Verreaux’s sifaka (Propithecus verreauxi verreauxi) at Beza Mahafaly Special Reserve, Madagascar. The first infant was found dying from wounds received to the chest and groin
after three adult males had immigrated into the group. The second infanticide was directly observed 2 weeks later when one
of the immigrant males targeted and attacked the infant after it was separated from its mother. The directed nature of the
attack suggests that the infant’s death was not a result of generalized aggression during a period of increased group instability.
Although the sexual selection argument does not fully explain infanticidal events in seasonally breeding lemurs, such as Verreaux’s
sifaka, it is clear that transferring males present a measurable threat to infant survival and female reproductive success
in this species. 相似文献
7.
A stranger mother-son pair of the chimpanzee was observed twice interacting with conspecifics of a neighbouring unit-group:
first, when the mother and son accidentally encountered them within the core area of the former; second, when the mother and
son temporarily immigrated for about one week. On both occasions, the mother and son were severely attacked by adult males
of the neighbouring unit-group, and would have been killed had it not been for human intervention. The main target of the
aggression was not the infant, but the mother. Some adult males intervened and prevented other males and females from attacking
the mother-son pair. Moreover, most adult males displayed an ambivalent attitude since they showed aggression towards them
on one occasion, but groomed, reassured and played on another. The reasons for the variable responses of adult males to a
stranger female are discussed in terms of possible differences in their mating strategies. 相似文献
8.
Robert W. Mitchell 《Primates; journal of primatology》1991,32(4):523-527
Deception and hiding are described for a group of captive lowland gorillas comprising two adult males, one female, and her
infant. The males repeatedly interacted with the infant, and their interest was repeatedly thwarted by the mother. As in other
social situations in which one animal controls access to an object desired by another, deceit was used to thwart the other's
control. Either one or both males at times concealed their actions toward the infant, inhibited their attention to the infant,
created a neutral image to get the infant, or interacted with the infant to tease the mother. 相似文献
9.
Infanticide by males is a common phenomenon in mammals, especially primates, as lactation lasts much longer than gestation in many species. Usually, infanticidal episodes occur soon after group takeovers, and are traditionally considered a male reproductive strategy (i.e., support the sexual selection hypothesis, Hrdy, 1974). To verify the validity of this conception, we observed one group of François’ langurs in the Nonggang Nature Reserve, China, between August 2003 and July 2004. During the study period, a François’ langur female with the youngest infant in the group was attacked three times by immigrating males, and later disappeared by the third day after the final attack. We suggest that these attacks on the female-infant dyad represent infanticide attempts by males, and may be the cause of the adult female and her infant’s disappearance. Presumably, that female dispersed with her infant to avoid infanticide and was not killed. Though these observations do not completely verify the sexual selection hypothesis, they are not inconsistent with it. 相似文献
10.
A first case of newborn Tibetan macaque (Macaca thibetana) twins was observed in a free-ranging group at Huangshan, China. The female that gave birth to the twins was studied during
their first 5 months post-partum, and her activity budget was compared to those of adult females with single or no offspring
in order to assess her behavioral changes. Our report shows that female Tibetan macaques can produce twins, and that twins
can successfully survive. The adult female with twins spent more time foraging and resting, but less time moving and engaged
in other social behaviors than adult females with a single infant or no infant. Our report provides a case of successfully
surviving twins in a wild environment and suggests that the mother modified her behavior patterns to adapt to the heavy burden.
We conclude that both food provisioning and the mother’s behavioral strategies facilitated the survivorship of twins. This
expands our understanding of the reproductive biology of Tibetan macaques. 相似文献
11.
Eckhard W. Heymann 《Primates; journal of primatology》1990,31(2):183-196
The social behaviour of a group of eight moustached tamarins,Saguinus mystax, (five males, three females) was studied on Padre Isla in northeastern Peru. About 60% of all allogrooming was done by the
two adult males in the group, and about 11% by a young adult female. All other group members groomed very little. The adult
breeding female received more grooming than any other group member. After the death of the adult female (preyed upon by an
anaconda) the amount of active allogrooming remained constant for all group members except for the young adult female, who
increased her contribution to about 30%. Her preferred grooming partner was the subadult female, which generally screamed
when being groomed by the young adult female and terminated grooming by going away. This kind of grooming relation is termed
“forced grooming” and is interpreted as a possible social control mechanism. The young adult female groomed the adult males
more often after the death of the adult female than before. This might have had the function of strengthening the social bond
with the adult males and in obtaining the breeding position in the group. After the death of the adult female, the vulva of
the young adult female grew to full adult size. Agonistic behaviour was less frequent than allogrooming. Most aggressive interactions
(50%) originated from the subadult male of the group. The young adult female was the target of most of these aggressions.
Extremely little aggression occurred between the three females. The young adult female was the only individual who tried to
emigrate from the group during the study period. Her attempt to join a neighbour group failed due to rejection by all four
members of this group. All group members participated in carrying an infant, but the adult males and the young adult female
carried most frequently. Contribution to infant carrying varied with the infant's age. 相似文献
12.
A male Sichuan golden monkey (Rhinopithecus roxellanae) was born on July 24, 1986 to an adult pair on loan from the Chinese government. Physical and behavioral development of the
infant, as well as the behavior of the parents, were recorded for the first 20 days of the infant's life. (On Day 21 the trio
was returned to the Chongqing Zoo in the People's Republic of China.) The infant pelage was dark gray at birth but soon began
changing to the orange-gold color typical of the adults. Forty hours of behavioral data were collected using a combination
of scan sampling and all occurrences of selected behaviors techniques. The infant pushed against his mother and pulled toward
objects in the enclosure beginning at 4 days of age. Time spent in these behaviors increased steadily and on Day 15 the infant
broke contact with his mother for the first time. Mother-infant contact appeared to be maintained by both individuals mutually
up to the infant's 10th day of the life. The percentage of time that the infant spent actively embracing his mother began
to decline after that while the female continued to spend the majority of her time embracing the infant. During the first
few days following the birth, the male always initiated and maintained proximity to the female and the infant. This “vigilant”
behavior had declined somewhat by the end of the study. 相似文献
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Caroline Ross 《American journal of primatology》1993,30(1):75-82
A take-over and infanticide were observed in a South Indian population of Hanuman langurs (Presbytis entellus). A one-male, bisexual troop of langurs (Troop B1) was attacked by a band of two adult males and one subadult male. During the take-over, the resident male and one elderly female were driven from the troop. The youngest infant, about two months old, was fatally wounded by an attack from the dominant incoming male (S1). However, other young infants in Troop B1 were left unharmed. All three incoming males remained in Troop B1 but the troop appeared to remain functionally one-male, as S1 did not allow the other adult male to copulate. There was no sign that S1 attempted to eject the other two males from troop B1. © 1993 Wiley-Liss, Inc. 相似文献
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An adult female ringtailed lemur (Lemur catta) known not to have been pregnant showed spontaneous lactation in response to twin infants born to an unrelated female. The females had met only 7 months earlier, when they and two other unrelated adult females were released from separate locations in a forest enclosure to form a new social group. Three months after release, an adult male from an adjacent enclosure gained access to the new group for 1 day, the day of one female's estrus. No males had access to the females throughout the remainder of the breeding season. Within 2 weeks of the birth of the twins, one of the other adult females began carrying the infants frequently, typically one at a time. All three females were checked for lactation when the infants were two months old. Both their mother and the unrelated adult who had been carrying the infants were producing milk. The third adult female, who never carried either infant, had no milk. The third adult female, who never carried either infant, had no milk. This female, however, like the two maternal females, frequently attacked unfamiliar immigrating adult males when the males approached the infants. Potential implications of these observations concerning the social organization of ringtailed lemurs are discussed. 相似文献
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Infanticide might be described as a reproductive strategy employed by anthropoid primate males when they immigrate into new groups. But infanticide has rarely been observed in wild prosimian primates. For the Malagasy lemurs this may reflect one or more of the following: strict breeding seasons; relative monomorphism in canine tooth and body size; small group sizes; male–female dominance relations; and male–female dyads within groups. We addressed the following questions: Do prosimian males commit infanticide in circumstances similar to those in which anthropoids do? and Is there any reproductive advantage for a highly seasonal breeder to commit infanticide? To help answer these questions, we describe the death of a 24-hr-old infant male Propithecus diadema edwardsi from wounds received during a fight between his mother, her adult daughter, and a newly immigrant male. Interbirth intervals between surviving offspring are 2 years for Propithecus diadema edwardsi; therefore, a male could dramatically shorten the time between reproductive windows by killing an infant. Whether this tactic would be favored by sexual selection cannot be addressed until more information has been collected on the length of interbirth interval due to infanticide relative to that of infant death by other causes; how social factors such as stability of breeding relationships affect long-term male reproductive success; how effective female counterstrategies are to prevent infanticide and/or whether they choose to mate with males that commit infanticide; and how often males that kill infants subsequently sire infants, particularly in groups that contain a resident male. 相似文献
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B Holzer Blersch C R Schmidt 《Folia primatologica; international journal of primatology》1992,58(4):190-196
A 10-year-old Western lowland gorilla, already caring for her own 14-month-old son, adopted a female neonate. The infant's mother (aged 7 years, 4 months) showed no interest in the infant, and it is unclear whether she abandoned the infant or whether it was seized by the dominant foster-mother. The foster-mother gave more maternal attention to the adoptee than to her own son but gave both infants the same protection. She adjusted her forms of transport to the age of each infant. The subadult mother of the neonate did not seek contact with her offspring during the first 4 weeks and in fact showed more interest in the 14-month-old male infant. Interactions between the two mothers were rare. The foster-mother's own male infant died 2 months after she had adopted the female infant. She looked after the adopted infant for 1 year, but then lost interest so that the adoptee had to be separated. 相似文献
17.
《Behavioural processes》1987,14(3):267-276
The aggressive behavior of alpha male rats and lactating females were each examined toward an intact adult male rat, a castrated adult male rat, an anesthetized adult male rat, a nonlactating adult female rat, an adult albino guinea pig (male or female), or an albino mouse (male or female). When in their living colony, females displayed high levels of aggressiveness toward all stimulus objects except a mouse. The aggression toward the intruding males occurred whether the female's pups were present or not. Alpha males were aggressive toward the same stimuli except an intruding female rat and a mouse. When tested in an unfamiliar colony, the males but not the females (with or without pups present) were aggressive toward an adult male rat. Half of the females but none of the males displayed defensive burying toward an anesthetized intruder. It is suggested that the attack on an adult female, the absence of attack outside of the resident colony, and the tendency to display defensive burying are features of the aggressiveness of lactating females that are fundamentally different from the aggressiveness of alpha males. The form of the aggression (lateral attack vs. lunge attack) was only quantitatively different in males and females. 相似文献
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The behavior of an infant female orangutan at Dublin Zoo before and after the death of her mother was recorded using scan sampling and compared. Social interactions and associations of the infant with the other individuals in the group were also compared before and after the death of her mother. Increases in climbing and object manipulation were observed, and a decrease in resting occurred. The infant orangutan significantly increased the amount of time she spent in close contact with another related adult female in the group after her mother's death. This case study describes an example of a zoo‐housed infant orangutan being successfully fostered by a related female without human intervention. It also provides a quantification of the behavior of an infant orangutan before and after being orphaned. Zoo Biol 30:205–211, 2011. © 2010 Wiley‐Liss, Inc. 相似文献
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Infanticide has been observed in several colobines, but only one infanticide has previously been documented for black and white colobus monkeys (Colobus guereza). This report describes an infanticide observed in Kibale National Park, Uganda, in the summer of 2001. An adult male from a neighboring group attacked and killed a young infant whose mother subsequently remained in her own group and was observed mating 10 days later. She engaged in two mating periods of several days each, separated by approximately 1 month, during which she copulated frequently with the dominant male within her group. Urinary estrogen (EC) and progesterone metabolite (PdG) excretion patterns demonstrated that the female resumed ovarian cycling soon after the infanticide. Because the infanticidal male did not attempt to mate with the victim's mother, his actions were not consistent with the predictions of the sexual-selection hypothesis. We speculate that infanticide associated with intergroup aggression may help secure access to high-quality resources for the infanticidal male's group. 相似文献
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Adult males in nonhuman primate societies exhibit a wide range of behaviors toward immature members of their social group, ranging from virtually continuous nurturance to systematic infanticide. Among macaques, rhesus monkey males in the wild display perhaps the least degree of paternalistic behavior toward conspecific infants. But adult male-infant rhesus attachments have not as yet been explored in a controlled longitudinal study, even though the mother-infant bond has received careful attention for several decades. In the present study two pairs of adult male and infant rhesus macaques were housed together without the mother for a period of at least seven months. To minimize the probability of physical harm to the infants, one adult male was present at the birth of the infant with whom it was paired and the other was visually familiarized with the infant for several weeks before being paired with it. Both pairs have shown much less ventral-ventral contact than mother-infant pairs and the infants have rarely attempted to gain nipple contact. The female infant now initiates and maintains ventral-ventral contact much more frequently than the male infant in spite of the higher degree of aggression directed toward her by the male. The adults frequently groom their infants and exhibit varying degrees of both tolerance and aggression. Rough-and-tumble play appeared quite early in both pairs and is much more vigorous than mother-infant play. Recently the male-male pair has exhibited reciprocal mounting and thrusting. Comparisons are made with data obtained in an earlier study of mother-infant pairs conducted under nearly identical experimental circumstances. The effects of separating the adult males and infants at seven months are also described. 相似文献