What you have, not who you know: food-enhanced social capital and changes in social behavioural relationships in a non-human primate.

ABSTRACT: Social network position in non-human primates has far-reaching fitness consequences. Critically, social networks are both heterogeneous and dynamic, meaning an individual's current network position is likely to change due to both intrinsic and extrinsic factors. However, our understanding of the drivers of changes in social network position is largely confined to opportunistic studies. Experimental research on the consequences of in situ, controlled network perturbations is limited. Here we conducted a food-based experiment in rhesus macaques to assess whether allowing an individual the ability to provide high-quality food to her group changed her social behavioural relationships. We considered both her social network position across five behavioural networks, as well as her dominan

SUBMITTER: Blersch R 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10791527 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature