Male mating effort and female preference in relation to male dominance rank, tenure length, and age in wild vervet monkeys.

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dc.contributor.advisorSchoof, Valerie
dc.contributor.authorFane, Taylor Courtney
dc.date.accessioned2024-03-18T18:04:01Z
dc.date.available2024-03-18T18:04:01Z
dc.date.issued2024-03-16
dc.date.updated2024-03-16T10:39:11Z
dc.degree.disciplineBiology
dc.degree.levelMaster's
dc.degree.nameMSc - Master of Science
dc.description.abstractIn this study, we aimed to evaluate the effect of male dominance rank, tenure, and age on male mating effort and female choice while quantifying four sociometric variables of male dominance hierarchy (stability, linearity, directional consistency, steepness) in two groups of wild vervet monkeys (Chlorocebus pygerythrus) at Lewa-Borana Conservancy, Kenya. We collected a total of 305 hours of behavioural data across a 4-month field season in 2022 on 13 adult/subadult males. Overall, adult, high-ranking males who had been in the group for a shorter amount of time, generally put forth more mating effort, copulated more frequently, and were preferred by females. The male dominance hierarchies for both groups were stable (mean S = 0.9844 ± 0.001), quasi-linear (mean h’ = 0.7554 ± 0.018), unidirectional (mean DCI = 0.7017 ± 0.121), and moderately steep (mean Dij = 0.6437 ± 0.044).
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10315/41913
dc.languageen
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dc.subjectZoology
dc.subjectAnimal behavior
dc.subjectEcology
dc.subject.keywordsAnimal behaviour
dc.subject.keywordsPrimatology
dc.subject.keywordsPrimates
dc.subject.keywordsVervet monkey
dc.subject.keywordsDominance
dc.subject.keywordsMale dominance hierarchy
dc.subject.keywordsMating success
dc.subject.keywordsSexual strategies
dc.subject.keywordsReproductive skew
dc.subject.keywordsHierarchy characteristics
dc.subject.keywordsHierarchy strength
dc.titleMale mating effort and female preference in relation to male dominance rank, tenure length, and age in wild vervet monkeys.
dc.typeElectronic Thesis or Dissertation

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