journal article Dec 01, 2007

Group size, grooming and social cohesion in primates

Animal Behaviour Vol. 74 No. 6 pp. 1617-1629 · Elsevier BV
View at Publisher Save 10.1016/j.anbehav.2006.10.025
Topics

No keywords indexed for this article. Browse by subject →

References
120
[1]
Baldellou "Time, gender, and seasonality in vervet activity: a chronobiological approach" Primates (1997) 10.1007/bf02385920
[2]
Baldellou "Diurnal and seasonal variations in vervet monkeys' activity" Psychological Reports (1998) 10.2466/pr0.1998.83.2.675
[3]
Barrett "Environmental influences on play behaviour in immature gelada baboons" Animal Behaviour (1992) 10.1016/s0003-3472(05)80760-2
[4]
Barrett "Market forces predict grooming reciprocity in female baboons" Proceedings of the Royal Society of London, Series B (1999) 10.1098/rspb.1999.0687
[5]
Barrett "Female baboons do not raise the stakes but they give as good as they get" Animal Behaviour (2000) 10.1006/anbe.1999.1361
[6]
Barton "Independent contrasts analysis of neocortical size and socioecology in primates" Behavioral and Brain Sciences (1993) 10.1017/s0140525x00032349
[7]
Bocian, C. M. 1997. Niche seperation of black-and-white colobus monkeys (Colobus angolensis and C. guereza) in the Ituri Forest. Ph.D. thesis, City University of New York.
[8]
Boesch (2000)
[9]
Bronikowski "Foraging in a variable environment: weather patterns and the behavioral ecology of baboons" Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology (1996) 10.1007/s002650050262
[10]
Butynski "Comparative ecology of blue monkeys (Cercopithecus mitis) in high- and low-density subpopulations" Ecological Monographs (1990) 10.2307/1943024
[11]
Buzzard (2004)
[12]
Byrne "Cognition in great ape ecology. Skill learning ability opens up foraging opportunities" Symposia of the Zoological Society of London (1999)
[13]
Byrne (2001)
[14]
Byrne (1988)
[15]
Caraco "Ecological determinants of group sizes of foraging lions" American Naturalist (1975) 10.1086/283001
[16]
Chapman "Constraints on group size in red colobus and red-tailed guenons: examining the generality of the ecological constraints model" International Journal of Primatology (2000) 10.1023/a:1005557002854
[17]
Chapman "Ecological constraints on group-size: an analysis of spider monkey and chimpanzee subgroups" Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology (1995) 10.1007/bf00175729
[18]
Cheney "Intragroup cohesion and intergroup hostility: the relation between grooming distribution and intergroup competition among female primates" Behavioral Ecology (1992) 10.1093/beheco/3.4.334
[19]
Chivers (1974)
[20]
Clutton-Brock "Activity patterns of red colobus (Colobus badius tephrosceles)" Folia Primatologica (1974) 10.1159/000155599
[21]
Clutton-Brock "Feeding behaviour of red colobus and black and white colobus in East Africa" Folia Primatologica (1975) 10.1159/000155671
[22]
Cords "Interspecific and intraspecific variation in diet of 2 forest guenons, Cercopithecus ascanius and C. mitis" Journal of Animal Ecology (1986) 10.2307/4418
[23]
Cords "Predator vigilance costs of allogrooming in wild blue monkeys" Behaviour (1995) 10.1163/156853995x00207
[24]
Cords "Friendship among adult female blue monkeys (Cercopithecus mitis)" Behaviour (2002) 10.1163/156853902760102681
[25]
Cowlishaw, G. C. 1993. Trade-offs between feeding competition and predation risk in baboons. Ph.D. thesis, University College, London.
[26]
Dasilva, G. L. 1989. The ecology of the western black and white colobus (Colobus polykomos polykomos Zimmerman 1780) on a riverine island in southeastern Sierra Leone. Ph.D. thesis, University of Oxford.
[27]
Davies, G. 1984. An ecological study of the red leaf monkey (Presbytis rubicunda) in dipterocarp forests of North Borneo. Ph.D. thesis, University of Cambridge.
[28]
Davies "Patterns of frugivory in three west African colobine monkeys" International Journal of Primatology (1999) 10.1023/a:1020596503533
[29]
Decker "Effects of habitat disturbance on the behavioral ecology and demographics of the Tana river red colobus (Colobus badius rufomitratus)" International Journal of Primatology (1994) 10.1007/bf02737428
[30]
Downes "Antipredatory behaviour in lizards: interactions between group size and predation risk" Animal Behaviour (2004) 10.1016/j.anbehav.2003.05.010
[31]
Dunbar "Observations on the ecology and social organization of the green monkey (Cercopithecus sabaeus), in Senegal" Primates (1974) 10.1007/bf01791671
[32]
Dunbar "Relationships and social structure in gelada and hamadryas baboons" (1983)
[33]
Dunbar (1984)
[34]
Dunbar "Functional significance of social grooming in primates" Folia Primatologica (1991) 10.1159/000156574
[35]
Dunbar "Neocortex size as a constraint on group size in primates" Journal of Human Evolution (1992) 10.1016/0047-2484(92)90081-j
[36]
Dunbar "Time: a hidden constraint on the behavioural ecology of baboons" Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology (1992) 10.1007/bf00167814
[37]
Dunbar "Coevolution of neocortecal size, group size and language in humans" Behavioral and Brain Sciences (1993) 10.1017/s0140525x00032325
[38]
Dunbar "Determinants of group size in primates: a general model" Proceedings of the British Academy (1996)
[39]
The social brain hypothesis

Robin I. M. Dunbar

Evolutionary Anthropology: Issues, News, and Revie... 1998 10.1002/(sici)1520-6505(1998)6:5<178::aid-evan5>3.0.co;2-8
[40]
Dunbar "Ecology and population dynamics of Colobus guereza in Ethiopia" Folia Primatologica (1974) 10.1159/000155600
[41]
Dunbar (1975)
[42]
Eley "Nutrition, body condition, activity patterns, and parasitism of free-ranging troops of Olive Baboons (Papio anubis) in Kenya" American Journal of Primatology (1989) 10.1002/ajp.1350180304
[43]
Ellefson "A natural history of white-handed gibbons in the Malayan penninsula" (1974)
[44]
Fashing "Activity and ranging patterns of guerezas in the Kakamega Forest: intergroup variation and implications for intragroup feeding competition" International Journal of Primatology (2001) 10.1023/a:1010785517852
[45]
Fawcett, K. A. 2000. Female relationships and food availability in a forest community of chimpanzees. Ph.D. thesis, University of Edinburgh.
[46]
Fimbel "An ecological basis for large group size in Colobus angolensis in the Nyungwe Forest, Rwanda" African Journal of Ecology (2001) 10.1111/j.1365-2028.2001.00276.x
[47]
Fossey "Feeding ecology of free-ranging mountain gorilla (Gorilla gorilla beringei)" (1977)
[48]
Garland "Using the past to predict the present: confidence intervals for regression equations in phylogenetic comparative methods" American Naturalist (2000) 10.1086/303327
[49]
Gittins "Siamang, lar und agile gibbons" (1980)
[50]
Gouzoules "Kinship" (1987)

Showing 50 of 120 references

Cited By
309
Social stress and affiliative touch: A tale of two affective states

Lito Parapera Papantoniou, Orysia Vityk · 2026

iScience
Current Biology
Metrics
309
Citations
120
References
Details
Published
Dec 01, 2007
Vol/Issue
74(6)
Pages
1617-1629
License
View
Cite This Article
J. Lehmann, A.H. Korstjens, R.I.M. Dunbar (2007). Group size, grooming and social cohesion in primates. Animal Behaviour, 74(6), 1617-1629. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.anbehav.2006.10.025
Related

You May Also Like

The repeatability of behaviour: a meta-analysis

Alison M. Bell, Shala J. Hankison · 2009

1,806 citations

Receiver psychology and the evolution of animal signals

Tim Guilford, Marian Stamp Dawkins · 1991

731 citations

Vervet monkey alarm calls: Semantic communication in a free-ranging primate

Robert M. Seyfarth, Dorothy L. Cheney · 1980

686 citations

Behavioural adjustments for a life in the city

Daniel Sol, Oriol Lapiedra · 2013

611 citations