Adult male replacement inMacaca fascicularis of East Kalimantan,Indonesia |
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Authors: | Bruce P Wheatley |
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Institution: | (1) Department of Anthropology, University Station, University of Alabama in Birmingham, 35294 Birmingham, Alabama |
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Abstract: | This report on wild-ranging crab-eating macaques in East Kalimantan, Indonesia, describes male replacements for the first
time in this species. A replacement at the alpha rank by an immigrant adult male was seen in this multimale troop during each
year of the 20-month field study. The data show considerable variation in the process and outcome of social change. Adult
male immigrants contested the alpha rank, whereas subadult male immigrants did not. The first replacement took 2 days, whereas
the second one took 1 month. In the first replacement four males and 10 other residents left the troop. In the second replacement
one of the two adult males was successful in immigrating when he replaced the resident male of his alpha rank, but the deposed
alpha male was not evicted from the troop. Existing models of the causes of replacement (such as high density or human disturbance)
and of the causes of infanticide are not supported by these data. Infanticide by immigrating males was not observed despite
the apparent presence of the postulated circumstances conducive to infanticide. |
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Keywords: | Macaca fascicularis replacement Indonesia immigration |
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