[Grooming and group structure in hamadryas baboons]

Ross Fiziol Zh Im I M Sechenova. 2010 Sep;96(9):936-42.
[Article in Russian]

Abstract

The results of 3-year observation on coral living hamadryas baboons transported from natural habitat in Tuapse reservation have been presented. Despite of the fact that grooming between males and females accounted for 73% of total cases of grooming in adult individual pairs, only the relationships of males with high-ranked females of their harems fully corresponded to a star-shaped sociogram. The high-ranked females were not different from all the other females either according to a total number of grooming cases with their female partners or according to a proportion of a performed and received grooming. Grooming between the related females was noted predominantly in the cases when they belonged to the same harem. Grooming between the related males accounted for 59% of all the cases of grooming between the male partners.

Publication types

  • English Abstract

MeSH terms

  • Animals
  • Female
  • Grooming / physiology*
  • Male
  • Papio hamadryas / physiology*
  • Sexual Behavior, Animal / physiology*
  • Social Behavior*