Social diffusion of modified louse egg-handling techniques during grooming in free-ranging Japanese macaques
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The louse egg-handling technique of a free-ranging troop of Japanese macaques were monitored to investigate the social diffusion of skills. The skills in the troop were distributed based on maternal lineages. The alteration of the louse egg-handling technique of one female from a one-hair combing technique to a forefinger loosening technique was later adopted by other female kin although the acquisition of the different elements of the technique showed temporal variation. The implications of these findings are discussed.
Publication Name: Animal Behaviour
Subject: Zoology and wildlife conservation
ISSN: 0003-3472
Year: 1998
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The effect of tick challenge on grooming rate by impala
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The study of the association between seasonal tick challenge and grooming rate by wild, free-ranging impala, Aepyceros melampus in Zimbabwe reveals that adult ticks in the vegetation has a considerable decline in number from the warm/wet season to the hot/dry season, decreasing from 2.4 ticks per drag sample and 58 ticks per removal plot to absolutely nil. The decrease was reflected by related decrease in grooming rate by all impala in which self-oral and scratch grooming bouts per h reduced 30-45%.
Publication Name: Animal Behaviour
Subject: Zoology and wildlife conservation
ISSN: 0003-3472
Year: 1995
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Grooming as a reward? social function of grooming between females in cooperatively breeding marmosets
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The relation between social structure and grooming between females in a cooperatively breeding species is examined. The findings provide a hypothesis that grooming asymmetries are related to differences in services provided by different group members.
Publication Name: Animal Behaviour
Subject: Zoology and wildlife conservation
ISSN: 0003-3472
Year: 2004
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