[HTML][HTML] Social and affective touch in primates and its role in the evolution of social cohesion

NG Jablonski - Neuroscience, 2021 - Elsevier
Primates are long-lived, highly social mammals who maintain long-term social bonds and
cohesive social groups through many affiliative mechanisms, foremost among them social …

[BOOK][B] Primate behavioral ecology

KB Strier - 2016 - taylorfrancis.com
This comprehensive introductory text integrates evolutionary, ecological, and demographic
perspectives with new results from field studies and contemporary noninvasive molecular …

A meta-analysis of interindividual differences in innovation

F Amici, A Widdig, J Lehmann, B Majolo - Animal Behaviour, 2019 - Elsevier
Highlights•We review previous studies on innovation across nonhuman taxa.•We conduct a
meta-analysis to assess interindividual differences in innovation.•More neophilic, more …

The effects of social network position on the survival of wild Barbary macaques, Macaca sylvanus

J Lehmann, B Majolo, R McFarland - Behavioral Ecology, 2016 - academic.oup.com
It has long been shown that the social environment of individuals can have strong effects on
health, well-being, and longevity in a wide range of species. Several recent studies found …

Experimental evidence for reciprocity in allogrooming among wild-type Norway rats

MK Schweinfurth, B Stieger, M Taborsky - Scientific Reports, 2017 - nature.com
If individuals help more those who have previously helped them, stable cooperation may
ensue through alternation of roles between donors and recipients. Allogrooming, which is …

More allogrooming is followed by higher physiological stress in wild female baboons

C Christensen, AM Bracken, MJ O'Riain… - Biology …, 2024 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Social bonds increase fitness in a range of mammals. One pathway by which social bonds
may increase fitness is by reducing the exposure to physiological stress, ie glucocorticoid …

The physiological effect of human grooming on the heart rate and the heart rate variability of laboratory non-human primates: a pilot study in male rhesus monkeys

LC Grandi, H Ishida - Frontiers in veterinary science, 2015 - frontiersin.org
Grooming is a widespread, essential, and complex behavior with social and affiliative
valence in the non-human primate world. Its impact at the autonomous nervous system level …

Wolf howling is mediated by relationship quality rather than underlying emotional stress

F Mazzini, SW Townsend, Z Virányi, F Range - Current Biology, 2013 - cell.com
While considerable research has addressed the function of animal vocalizations, the
proximate mechanisms driving call production remain surprisingly unclear. Vocalizations …

Predictive coding accounts of shared representations in parieto-insular networks

H Ishida, K Suzuki, LC Grandi - Neuropsychologia, 2015 - Elsevier
The discovery of mirror neurons in the ventral premotor cortex (area F5) and inferior parietal
cortex (area PFG) in the macaque monkey brain has provided the physiological evidence for …

Social interactions through the eyes of macaques and humans

R McFarland, H Roebuck, Y Yan, B Majolo, W Li… - PLoS …, 2013 - journals.plos.org
Group-living primates frequently interact with each other to maintain social bonds as well as
to compete for valuable resources. Observing such social interactions between group …