Rank distance as a central feature of rhesus monkey social organization: a sociometric analysis

摘要: Abstract Data from three studies on two captive groups of rhesus monkeys, Macaca mulatta , were used to test a hierarchical multiple regression model adult social organization. The followed the literature in assuming that matrilineal kinship affects rank distance, i.e. positions related adults are generally closer one another than unrelated adults. Rank turn, was assumed affect affiliative behaviour, tolerance at feeding and drinking sites, aggression. tested with matrix permutation techniques allow dyadic variation be taken completely into account. results confirmed distance correlates range behaviour independently effects kinship. Several alternative functional explanations role compared; attraction among individuals similar ranks appeared most plausible explanation. study also addressed general applicability previously reported ‘class’ division groups. This could not replicated, may have been temporary structural phenomenon.