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Surprisingly, this is the only video we have of this behavior in primates and one of only three videos we have showing social grooming behavior in any animals. This was promoted at commons a few days ago. Articles in which this image appears Social grooming FP category for this image Wikipedia:Featured pictures/Animals/Mammals Creator Frank ...
In primates, laughter and social grooming trigger opioid release in the brain, which is thought to form and maintain social bonds. [77] In a study performed on rhesus monkeys , lactating females with 4- to 10-week-old infants were given low doses of naloxone , an opioid antagonist that blocks the opioid receptor and inhibits the effects of ...
Primate sociality is an area of primatology that aims to study the interactions between three main elements of a primate social network: the social organisation, the social structure and the mating system. The intersection of these three structures describe the socially complex behaviours and relationships occurring among adult males and ...
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Many social animals adapt preening and grooming behaviors for other social purposes such as bonding and the strengthening of social structures.Grooming plays a particularly important role in forming social bonds in many primate species, such as chacma baboons and wedge-capped capuchins.
Touch is widely used for social integration, a use that is typified by the social grooming of one animal by another. Social grooming has several functions; it removes parasites and debris from the groomed animal, it reaffirms the social bond or hierarchical relationship between the animals, and it gives the groomer an opportunity to examine ...
In the study of social transmissions, one of the important unanswered questions is an explanation of how and why maladaptive social traditions are maintained. For example, in one study [ citation needed ] on social transmission in guppies ( Poecilia reticulata ), naïve fish preferred taking a long, energetically costly route to a feeder that ...
The World's 25 Most Endangered Primates is a list of highly endangered primate species selected and published by the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) Species Survival Commission (SSC) Primate Specialist Group (PSG), the International Primatological Society (IPS), Global Wildlife Conservation (GWC), and Bristol Zoological ...