Social dominance and cooperation in female vampire bats
dc.contributor.author | Crisp, RJ | |
dc.contributor.author | Brent, LJN | |
dc.contributor.author | Carter, GG | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2021-07-08T10:22:15Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2021-07-07 | |
dc.description.abstract | When group-living animals develop individualized social relationships, they often regulate cooperation and conflict through a dominance hierarchy. Female common vampire bats have been an experimental system for studying cooperative relationships, yet surprisingly little is known about female conflict. Here, we recorded the outcomes of 1023 competitive interactions over food provided ad libitum in a captive colony of 33 vampire bats (24 adult females and their young). We found a weakly linear dominance hierarchy using three common metrics (Landau's h’ measure of linearity, triangle transitivity and directional consistency). However, patterns of female dominance were less structured than in many other group-living mammals. Female social rank was not clearly predicted by body size, age, nor reproductive status, and competitive interactions were not correlated with kinship, grooming nor food sharing. We therefore found no evidence that females groomed or shared food up a hierarchy or that differences in rank explained asymmetries in grooming or food sharing. A possible explanation for such apparently egalitarian relationships among female vampire bats is the scale of competition. Female vampire bats that are frequent roostmates might not often directly compete for food in the wild. | en_GB |
dc.description.sponsorship | Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute (STRI) | en_GB |
dc.description.sponsorship | National Science Foundation (NSF) | en_GB |
dc.identifier.citation | Vol. 8 (7), article 210266 | en_GB |
dc.identifier.doi | 10.1098/rsos.210266 | |
dc.identifier.grantnumber | 2015928 | en_GB |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10871/126337 | |
dc.language.iso | en | en_GB |
dc.publisher | Royal Society | en_GB |
dc.relation.url | https://doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.14043794.v1 | en_GB |
dc.rights | © 2021 The Authors. Published by the Royal Society under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/, which permits unrestricted use, provided the original author and source are credited. | en_GB |
dc.subject | competition | en_GB |
dc.subject | social rank | en_GB |
dc.subject | conflict | en_GB |
dc.subject | interdependence | en_GB |
dc.subject | dominance hierarchy | en_GB |
dc.title | Social dominance and cooperation in female vampire bats | en_GB |
dc.type | Article | en_GB |
dc.date.available | 2021-07-08T10:22:15Z | |
dc.description | This is the final version. Available on open access from the Royal Society via the DOI in this record | en_GB |
dc.description | Data accessibility: All data and R code can be found on Figshare: https://doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.14043794.v1 | en_GB |
dc.identifier.eissn | 2054-5703 | |
dc.identifier.journal | Royal Society Open Science | en_GB |
dc.rights.uri | https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ | en_GB |
dcterms.dateAccepted | 2021-06-14 | |
rioxxterms.version | VoR | en_GB |
rioxxterms.licenseref.startdate | 2021-07-07 | |
rioxxterms.type | Journal Article/Review | en_GB |
refterms.dateFCD | 2021-07-08T10:20:12Z | |
refterms.versionFCD | VoR | |
refterms.dateFOA | 2021-07-08T10:24:37Z | |
refterms.panel | A | en_GB |
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