Environment, competition and reproductive performance of female monkeys.

摘要: In most wild and captive monkey groups, some females are clearly dominant over others. Dominant animals have priority of access to resources, well fed generally outreproduce poorly ones. So why is it that only in social groups female monkeys more fecund than subordinate ones? The distribution food influences the intensity competition between group members, appears dominants do better when interference intense. addition, dominance reproductive performance via parameters other simple fecundity. Analysis different components success, environmental conditions under which subordinates, should help our understanding biological processes by differential arises.