Significance of Grooming Behavior in Two Polygynous Groups of Western Black Crested Gibbons: Implications for Understanding Social Relationships Among Immigrant and Resident Group Members

	Significance of Grooming Behavior in Two Polygynous Groups of Western Black Crested Gibbons: Implications for Understanding Social Relationships Among Immigrant and Resident Group Members
	Guan ZH 1,2; Huang B 1; Ning WH 1,2; Ni QY 1,2,3; Sun GZ 4; Jiang XL*1; jiangxl@mail.kiz.ac.cn
	2013
发表期刊	AMERICAN JOURNAL OF PRIMATOLOGY
卷号	75 期号:12 页码:1165-1173
合作性质	其它
摘要	In primates, grooming is considered among the most common behaviors for maintaining social bonds; however, to date, few studies have examined grooming behavior in gibbon species in detail. We used both a 5-min interval scan method and social network analysis to study grooming in two groups of polygynous western black-crested gibbon (Nomascus concolor) in Wuliang Mountain, Central Yunnan, China. Individuals in both groups spent little time in social grooming (1.45% and 1.97% of active time). We compared the two groups' grooming networks and found that the group that maintained a more stable social unit had a more complex grooming network while the group with new immigrants had a grooming network characterized by fewer grooming pairs. Females in both groups played important roles in the grooming network. A newly immigrant female spent the most time grooming others and chose the resident adult female as her main adult grooming partner. Other females from both groups chose the adult male as their primary grooming partner (except their offspring). A sub-adult male who had resided in his natal group for 2 years after maturing into an adult also groomed more and was at the center of the network. This male finally replaced the breeding male in his group 3 years after our data collection period ended. We hypothesize that the immigrant female and the resident young adult male engaged in more extensive grooming interactions as a behavioral strategy to gain tolerance from long-term residents. Our results suggest that female gibbons in polygynous groups actively cooperate in maintaining social relationships rather than co-exist through tolerance or avoidance. Our observations indicate that grooming networks in crested gibbons reflect individual dynamics and partly support the social cohesion hypothesis for primate grooming. In this regard, we suggest that changes in gibbon grooming networks can be used to predict social change.
关键词	Grooming Interaction Social Network Analysis Polygynous Nomascus Concolor Wuliang Mountains
收录类别	SCI
语种	英语
WOS记录号	WOS:000325619300003
引用统计	被引频次：11[WOS] [WOS记录] [WOS相关记录]
文献类型	期刊论文
条目标识符	http://ir.kiz.ac.cn/handle/152453/7700
专题	科研部门_兽类生态与进化（蒋学龙）遗传资源与进化国家重点实验室
通讯作者	jiangxl@mail.kiz.ac.cn
作者单位	1.State Key Laboratory of Genetic Resources and Evolution, Kunming Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Kunming, Yunnan, China 2.University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China 3.College of Animal Science and Technology, Sichuan Agriculture University, Ya‐an, Sichuan, China 4.China Forest Exploration and Design Institute in Kunming, Kunming, China
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Guan ZH,Huang B,Ning WH,et al. Significance of Grooming Behavior in Two Polygynous Groups of Western Black Crested Gibbons: Implications for Understanding Social Relationships Among Immigrant and Resident Group Members[J]. AMERICAN JOURNAL OF PRIMATOLOGY,2013,75(12):1165-1173.
APA	Guan ZH.,Huang B.,Ning WH.,Ni QY.,Sun GZ.,...&jiangxl@mail.kiz.ac.cn.(2013).Significance of Grooming Behavior in Two Polygynous Groups of Western Black Crested Gibbons: Implications for Understanding Social Relationships Among Immigrant and Resident Group Members.AMERICAN JOURNAL OF PRIMATOLOGY,75(12),1165-1173.
MLA	Guan ZH,et al."Significance of Grooming Behavior in Two Polygynous Groups of Western Black Crested Gibbons: Implications for Understanding Social Relationships Among Immigrant and Resident Group Members".AMERICAN JOURNAL OF PRIMATOLOGY 75.12(2013):1165-1173.

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