How Is Kinship a Factor for Social Relations of Male Guinea Baboons?
By combining behavioral observations with GPS data on the whereabouts and data on genetic relatedness of males of a Guinea baboon population, the study presented in this video provides new insights into their social structure: The species forms structured multi-level societies. Male Guinea baboons are found to be exceptional in terms of their spatial tolerance and their organizing principle, JULIA FISCHER explains. As opposed to other male non-humane primates, relatedness is not the sole determinant of association, allowing cooperation beyond kinship.
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.21036/LTPUB10153Researcher
Julia Fischer is Professor of Cognitive Ethology at the German Primate Center and the University of Göttingen as well as an author and editor, with cognition and social behavior as one of her major research interests. She habilitated at Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology and was awarded the Heisenberg fellowship from the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG). Fischer is a member of the Göttingen as well as the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Science and Humanities and received the Grüter-Preis für Wissenschaftsvermittlung in 2013.
Original Publication
Male Tolerance and Male-Male Bonds in a Multilevel Primate Society
Annika Patzelt
,Gisela H. Kopp
,I. Malick Ndao
,Urs Kalbitzer
,Dietmar Zinner
,Published in 2014