Females without Infants: Mating Strategies in Two Species of Captive Macaques
作者:
Meredith F. Small,
期刊:
Folia Primatologica
(Karger Available online 1983)
卷期:
Volume 40,
issue 1-2
页码: 125-133
ISSN:0015-5713
年代: 1983
DOI:10.1159/000156094
出版商: S. Karger AG
关键词: Rhesus macaques;Bonnet macaques;Nonmothers;Mating strategies;Mothers
数据来源: Karger
摘要:
Bonnet (Macaca radiata) and rhesus (Macaca mulatta) macaque females were observed during the breeding season to evaluate differences in mating strategies between females without infants and females with dependent offspring. Rhesus nonmothers participated in consortships earlier in the breeding season and initiated and received more approaches with adult males than rhesus mothers did. Bonnet nonmothers entered estrus earlier, began copulating earlier, and approached and presented to adult males more often than bonnet mothers did. Interacting with males frequently and early in the breeding season may improve nonmothers’ chances of conceiving and bringing offspring to term, with little competition from mother peer
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