Temperament Predicts the Quality of Social Interactions in Captive Female Rhesus Macaques (Macaca mulatta).

ABSTRACT: Previous reports suggest that female macaques with greater similarity in emotionality and nervous temperament, as evaluated in a well-established BioBehavioral Assessment (BBA) at the California National Primate Research Center, were more likely to form successful pairs. We tested whether the same measures can also predict the quality of social interactions among 20 female rhesus macaque pairs. We correlated the pairs' emotionality and nervous temperament scores obtained in infancy and the levels of behaviors recorded systematically during the pairing process years later. Supporting previous findings, partners with similar emotionality scores were more affiliative, and pairs with similar nervous temperament expressed less dominance/submissive behavior. Exploratorily, we found that pairs th

SUBMITTER: Pomerantz O 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8388696 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature