期刊
BIOLOGY LETTERS
卷 3, 期 3, 页码 231-233出版社
ROYAL SOCIETY
DOI: 10.1098/rsbl.2007.0052
关键词
sociability; fitness; cortisol
It is well established that grooming underpins sociality in group-living primates, and a number of studies have documented the stress-reducing effects of being groomed. In this study, we quantified grooming behaviour and physiological stress (assessed by faecal glucocorticoid analysis) in free-ranging Barbary macaques, Macaca sylvanus. Our results indicate that it is the giving rather than the receiving of grooming that is associated with lower stress levels. These findings shed important new light on the benefits of this key behaviour in primate social life.
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