Predictability and variability of association patterns in sooty mangabeys.

ABSTRACT:

Abstract

In many group-living animal species, interactions take place in changing social environments, increasing the information processing necessary to optimize social decision-making. Communities with different levels of spatial and temporal cohesion should differ in the predictability of association patterns. While the focus in this context has been on primate species with high fission-fusion dynamics, little is known about the variability of association patterns in species with large groups and high temporal cohesion, where group size and the environment create unstable subgroups. Here, we use sooty mangabeys as a model species to test predictability on two levels: on the subgroup level and on the dyadic level. Our results show that the entirety of group members surrounding an

SUBMITTER: Mielke A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7089916 | biostudies-literature | 2020

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature