Primate social behaviour: Benefits, challenges and diversity of relations
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https://doi.org/10.7203/metode.14.25454Keywords:
sociality, development, primates, social learning, evolution
Abstract
Primates usually live in groups and interact with other group members, sometimes forming preferential long-term relationships. Sociality provides primates with benefits like support and learning opportunities that ultimately increase their fitness. Sociality also poses challenges in terms of competition and coordination, though, which primates face with the use of different behavioural and cognitive strategies. Moreover, primates show important variation in sociality, both between species, between groups, across individuals and through developmental stages. Overall, observational studies are a powerful tool to understand the richness in primate sociality, and the factors that explain the emergence and maintenance of specific forms of sociality and behavioural traits.
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Federica Amici, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology (Germany).
Researcher at the University of Leipzig and at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology (Germany). She studies the evolutionary processes that shape the distribution of behavior and cognition in animals, with a particular focus on primates and ungulates. She is currently working on the complexity of primate communication, and on the development of behaviour in children and other primates.
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