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Male dominance and reproductive activity in Papio anubis.

Craig Packer
- 01 Feb 1979 - 
- Vol. 27, pp 37-45
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The dominance relations of the sexually mature males residing in three troops of Papio anubis at Gombe National Park, Tanzania are examined and three tactics which males employed to increase temporarily their dominance against other males are discussed.
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This article is published in Animal Behaviour.The article was published on 1979-02-01. It has received 313 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Papio anubis.

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Staying alive: evolution, culture, and women's intrasexual aggression.

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Inter-troop transfer and inbreeding avoidance in Papio anubis

TL;DR: Migrations which were unlikely to be due to the avoidance of inbreeding were made by males with above average reproductive activity into troops with more oestrous females than the prior troop, and females showed a preference for transferred males over natal males, and for males who could not have been their father over males whocould have been.
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A field study of the sociobiology of rhesus monkeys, macaca mulatta*

TL;DR: This first report covers aspects of methods of research, group composition and its stability, repertoire of social behavior, sexual behavior, and agonistic behavior of rhesus monkeys on Cay0 Santiago, Puerto Rico, a small island in the West Indies.
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Inter-troop transfer and inbreeding avoidance in Papio anubis

TL;DR: Migrations which were unlikely to be due to the avoidance of inbreeding were made by males with above average reproductive activity into troops with more oestrous females than the prior troop, and females showed a preference for transferred males over natal males, and for males who could not have been their father over males whocould have been.