Female social structure influences, and is influenced by, male introduction and integration success among captive rhesus macaques (Macaca mulatta).

ABSTRACT: Animal social structure is influenced by multiple socioecological factors. Of these, the links between changes to group demography through the arrival of new individuals and residents' social structure remain unclear. Across seven groups of captive rhesus macaques (Macaca mulatta), we examine how male introductions may be influenced by, and in-turn influence, aspects of female social structure. GLMMs revealed that males integrated more successfully into groups in which females showed more 'despotic' social structures, i.e., higher aggression rates, steeper dominance hierarchies, and greater rank-skew in allogrooming network connectedness. Yet during periods that followed males' social integration, females increased their social tolerance (decreased aggression and shallower hierarchi

SUBMITTER: Balasubramaniam KN 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9518721 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature