Infant attraction: why social bridging matters for female leadership in Tibetan macaques [PDF]
Current Zoology, 2020 Abstract Leadership is a key issue in the study of collective behavior in social animals. Affiliation–leadership models predict that dyadic partner preferences based on grooming relationships or alliance formation positively affect an individual’s decision to follow or support a conspecific.
Wang, Xi +8 more
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Tourist Behavior and Decibel Levels Correlate with Threat Frequency in Tibetan Macaques (Macaca thibetana) at Mt. Huangshan, China [PDF]
, 2010 Tourism is a common component of management practices directed toward endangered species and habitats, but few studies have explored the potential stressors that may occur to nonhumans as objects of tourism.
Li, Jin-Hua +4 more
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Stability and flexibility of the gut microbiota of wild Tibetan macaques. [PDF]
ISME CommunAbstract The gut microbiota of wild animals is characterized by both stability and adaptive shifts in composition and prevalence in response to variation in food availability, nutrient intake, host physiology, temperature, and rainfall.
Ru Y +6 more
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Effect of primate protection on threatened and endemic vertebrates, plants, ecosystem services, and future climate refugia. [PDF]
Conserv BiolAbstract Primates, 69% of which are threatened with extinction, are the third most specious order of mammals. We used primates as model taxa to examine the umbrella effects of primates on ecosystem services and the protection of other vertebrates and seed plants in Yunnan Province, China.
Yang Y +21 more
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Behaviors that Predict Personality Components in Adult free-Ranging Tibetan Macaques (Macaca thibetana) [PDF]
, 2014 To further the potential for applied personality studies, we present a methodology for assessing personality in nonhuman animals without a priori assumptions, using behavioral measures to discriminate personality survey results. Our study group consisted
Gabriel, Kara I +4 more
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Park rangers\u27 behaviors and their effects on tourists and Tibetan macaques (Macaca thibetana) at Mt. Huangshan, China [PDF]
, 2014 Previous studies have reported the negative impacts of tourism on nonhuman primates (NHPs) and tourists and advocated the improvement of tourism management, yet what constitutes good quality management remains unclear.
DuVall-Lash, Alexander S. +7 more
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Experience-based human perception of facial expressions in Barbary macaques (Macaca sylvanus) [PDF]
, 2017 Background Facial expressions convey key cues of human emotions, and may also be important for interspecies interactions. The universality hypothesis suggests that six basic emotions (anger, disgust, fear, happiness, sadness, and surprise) should be ...
Levy, Xandria +3 more
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Personality structure and social style in macaques. [PDF]
, 2015 Why regularities in personality can be described with particular dimensions is a basic question in differential psychology. Nonhuman primates can also be characterized in terms of personality structure. Comparative approaches can help reveal phylogenetic
Adams, MJ +9 more
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Ecology and Evolution, 2021 The margins of protected areas are usually considered to have greater forest degradation, and given that most mammals live outside protected areas, researchers and conservation practitioners are increasingly recognizing that nonprotected areas must be ...
Wenbo Li +5 more
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Tibetan Macaque Social Style: Covariant and Quasi-independent Evolution [PDF]
, 2019 AbstractUnderstanding the evolutionary origins of group social structure is vital to understanding how individuals deal with the trade-offs of group living. In this chapter, we review our previous work related to social style in Tibetan macaques and across macaque species, focusing on whether, and the extent to which, indicators of social style covary ...
Krishna N. Balasubramaniam +4 more
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