Vervet Crash Course: Social Behavior

This is Part 2 of a crash course in vervet monkey behavior. This video is focused on vervet monkey social behavior and includes input from an expert in the field, Dr. Erica van de Waal, and a researcher explaining his masters thesis, Varun Manavazhi. This video is designed with field assistants in mind, but it is for any interested person!
Our next installment will focus on communication in vervets!
1:34 - between group encounters
2:43 - male dispersal
4:15 - family hierarchy
4:58 - female rank inheritance
6:20 - male rank inheritance
Inkawu Vervet Project:
inkawuvervetproject.weebly.co...
Dr. Erica van de Waal:
www.unil.ch/dee/en/home/menui...
Varun’s Thesis: dr.iiserpune.ac.in:8080/xmlui/...
References:
Arseneau-Robar, T. J. M., Taucher, A. L., Schnider, A. B., van Schaik, C. P., & Willems, E. P. (2017). Intra-and interindividual differences in the costs and benefits of intergroup aggression in female vervet monkeys. Animal behaviour, 123, 129-137.
Cheney, D. L. (1981). Intergroup encounters among free-ranging vervet monkeys. Folia primatologica, 35(2-3), 124-146.
Cheney, D. L., & Seyfarth, R. M. (1983). Nonrandom dispersal in free-ranging vervet monkeys: social and genetic consequences. The American Naturalist, 122(3), 392-412.
Harcourt, A. H. (1978). Strategies of emigration and transfer by primates, with particular reference to gorillas. Zeitschrift für Tierpsychologie, 48(4), 401-420.
Itani, J. (1972). A preliminary essay on the relationship between social organization and incest avoidance in non-human primates. Pages 165-171 in F. Poirier, ed. Primate socialization. Random House, New York.
Additional references:
Cheney DL, Seyfarth RM (1992b) How monkeys see the world: inside the mind of another species. University of Chicago Press, Chicago
primate.wisc.edu/primate-info...
www.sciencemag.org/news/2016/... text=Thus%2C%20grooming%20may%20help%20the,and%20participating%20in%20monkey%20society.

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