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AMERICAN JOURNAL OF PRIMATOLOGY
卷 70, 期 7, 页码 634-641出版社
WILEY-BLACKWELL
DOI: 10.1002/ajp.20537
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one-male unit; dominance relationships; multi-level society; Sichuan snub-nosed monkey (Rhinopithecus roxellana)
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We studied the dominance relationships among one-male units (OMUs) in a provisioned free-ranging band of the Sichuan snub-nosed monkeys (Rhinopithecus roxellana) in the Qinling Mountains of central China from 2001 to 2005. The band was composed of 6-8 OMUs that stayed in the band for several years. Linear dominance orders could be detected using displacement interactions with directional asymmetry among OMUs in 82.3 +/- 5% of interactions, and ambiguous and reversed interactions in 17.7 +/- 5%. The dominance rank of OMUs was positively related with the duration of their stay in the band, and this may be attributed to the association of the resident male with adult females, rather than the fighting ability of resident males, as males do not fight seriously with each other. Subordinate units were observed to merge with dominant units resulting in an elevation of their rank order. The linear dominance relationship among OMUs in the Sichuan snub-nosed monkeys may have evolved as a result of competition for preferred food trees.
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