Fornasieri I, Roeder J J
Laboratoire de Psychophysiologie, (URA-CNRS 1295), Strasbourg, France.
Folia Primatol (Basel). 1992;59(3):137-48. doi: 10.1159/000156651.
The influence of social status, reproductive and agonistic contexts and environmental change on scent-marking and allomarking rates were studied in captive groups of Lemur fulvus and Lemur macaco. No evidence of female social dominance over males appeared in either species. In L. fulvus, intrasexual relationships were characterized by the dominance of one adult male over another and by the existence of female affiliative association ('central' vs. 'peripheral' females). In L. macaco, no intrasexual dominance relationships were apparent except for a brief ostracism of one female. In both species, (1) intrasexual differences in social status were related to differences in marking rates, (2) no direct relation appeared between marking rates and aggression or reproduction, (3) allomarking was not differentially directed towards specific individuals and (4) physical environmental factors clearly influenced scent-marking and allomarking rates. These results are discussed in relation to the possible functions of marking behaviour in intragroup relations.
在圈养的褐美狐猴和猕猴群体中，研究了社会地位、繁殖和争斗环境以及环境变化对气味标记和互标记率的影响。在这两个物种中，均未发现雌性在社会上占主导地位的证据。在褐美狐猴中，同性关系的特点是一只成年雄性对另一只成年雄性具有支配地位，以及存在雌性亲和关联（“核心”雌性与“边缘”雌性）。在猕猴中，除了一只雌性被短暂排斥外，没有明显的同性支配关系。在这两个物种中，（1）社会地位的同性差异与标记率的差异有关，（2）标记率与攻击或繁殖之间没有直接关系，（3）互标记并非针对特定个体有差异地进行，并且（4）物理环境因素明显影响气味标记和互标记率。结合标记行为在群体内关系中可能的功能对这些结果进行了讨论。
