Sebastian Sosa Orozco
University of Barcelona, Psychology Faculty Campus Mundet, Grupo de Conducta Adaptativa e Interaccion Passeig Vall d'Heron 171, Barcelona 08035, Spain.
Behav Processes. 2015 Feb;111:109-17. doi: 10.1016/j.beproc.2014.12.011. Epub 2015 Jan 3.
The Macaca genus is a biological model for animal societies, known for its social structuration by age, sex, and kinship. We managed to establish a mathematical model, through multiple regression tests, that emphasizes the relationship between several individual attributes (sex, age, matrilineal belonging) with hierarchical rank among a Barbary macaque (Macaca sylvanus) group (N=50) observed during 11 months at 'La forêt des singes' in Rocamdour, France. We established two models according to sex, one for males and one for females, explaining 99.1% and 99.4% of the hierarchical rank variance respectively. Our study is the first step in studying the weight of each attribute in hierarchical structuration among this species and consequently the individual hierarchical rank determination. Such a model could be used as the basis for future comparative studies among the Macaca genus.
猕猴属是动物社会的生物学模型，以其按年龄、性别和亲属关系进行的社会结构划分而闻名。我们通过多次回归测试成功建立了一个数学模型，该模型强调了在法国罗卡杜尔的“猴林”对一群巴巴里猕猴（猕猴属阿拉伯狒狒，N = 50）进行11个月观察期间，几个个体属性（性别、年龄、母系归属）与等级地位之间的关系。我们根据性别建立了两个模型，一个针对雄性，一个针对雌性，分别解释了等级地位差异的99.1%和99.4%。我们的研究是研究该物种等级结构中每个属性的权重以及个体等级地位确定的第一步。这样一个模型可以作为未来猕猴属比较研究的基础。
