Female behavioral strategies during consortship in Tibetan macaques (Macaca thibetana). [PDF]
Ecol Evol, 2021 AbstractConsortship has been defined as a temporary association between an adult male and an estrous/receptive female. It has been considered as male mating strategies to improve male mating success and potential reproductive success. However, the female roles have been more or less neglected, and thus, less is known about female behavioral strategies ...
Zhang QX, Sun L, Xia DP, Li JH.
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Sexual Interference Behaviors in Male Adult and Subadult Tibetan Macaques (Macaca thibetana). [PDF]
Animals (Basel), 2021 Male nonhuman primate sexual interference, which includes copulation interruption and copulation harassment, has been related to reproductive success, but its significance has been challenging to test. Copulation interruption results in the termination of a copulation before ejaculation, whereas copulation harassment does not.
Pang KH +5 more
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Captivity Is Associated With Gut Mycobiome Composition in Tibetan Macaques (Macaca thibetana). [PDF]
Front Microbiol, 2021 Although recent studies have revealed that gut fungi may play an important functional role in animal biology and health, little is known concerning the effects of anthropogenic pressures on the gut mycobiome. Here, we examined differences of the gut mycobiome in wild and captive populations of Tibetan macaques (Macaca thibetana) targeting the fungal ...
Sun B +10 more
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Sex-Specific Variation of Social Play in Wild Immature Tibetan Macaques, Macaca thibetana. [PDF]
Animals (Basel), 2021 Theories proposed to explain social play have centered on its function in establishing social relationships critical for adulthood, its function in developing motor skills needed to survive, and promoting cognitive development and social learning. In this study, we compared variations in social play among infant and juvenile male and female Macaca ...
Wang T +6 more
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Linking the bacterial microbiome between gut and habitat soil of Tibetan macaque (Macaca thibetana). [PDF]
Ecol Evol, 2022 AbstractSoil is a part of the habitat environment of terrestrial or semi‐terrestrial mammals, which contains a wide variety of microbes. Although the soil microbiome of the host habitat is considered to be a potentially important influence factor on the mammalian gut microbiome and health, few data are currently available to explore the relationship ...
Xu X, Xia Y, Sun B.
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Interchange between grooming and infant handling in female Tibetan macaques (Macaca thibetana). [PDF]
Zool Res, 2019 In some nonhuman primates, infants function as a social tool that can bridge relationships among group members. Infants are a desired commodity for group members, and mothers control access to them. The biological market theory suggests that grooming is widespread and represents a commodity that can be exchanged for infant handling.
Jiang Q +5 more
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Bridging may help young female Tibetan macaques Macaca thibetana learn to be a mother. [PDF]
Sci Rep, 2018 AbstractAttraction to infants is a common feature of non-human primates. Frequent affiliative male-infant interactions have been observed in many multimale, multifemale groups of macaques, including a behaviour termed ‘bridging’ in which two male macaques simultaneously lift an infant.
Zhang D +5 more
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Male Tibetan macaques'(Macaca thibetana) choice of infant bridging partners. [PDF]
Dongwuxue Yanjiu, 2014 Adult male Tibetan (Macaca thibetana), Barbary (M. sylvanus), and stump-tailed macaques (M. arctoides) engage in bridging, a ritualized infant-handling behavior. Previous researchers found a bias toward the use of male infants for this behavior, but its function is debated.
Bauer B +4 more
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Gut microbiome is associated with personality traits of free-ranging Tibetan macaques (Macaca thibetana). [PDF]
Front MicrobiolRecent studies have emphasized that there is a strong link between the gut microbiome and the brain that affects social behavior and personality in animals. However, the interface between personality and the gut microbiome in wild primates remains poorly understood.
Xia M +8 more
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Chromosome-level genome assembly of Tibetan macaque ( Macaca thibetana) and species-specific structural variations. [PDF]
Zool Res, 2022 Zhang RS +6 more
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