No evidence that grooming is exchanged for coalitionary support in the short- or long-term via direct or generalized reciprocity in unrelated rhesus macaques
dc.contributor.author | O’Hearn, WJ | |
dc.contributor.author | Ruiz-Lambides, A | |
dc.contributor.author | Platt, ML | |
dc.contributor.author | Brent, LJN | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2022-03-28T11:01:24Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2022-03-24 | |
dc.date.updated | 2022-03-28T09:48:50Z | |
dc.description.abstract | Reciprocity is a prominent explanation for cooperation between non-kin. Studies designed to demonstrate reciprocity often focus on direct reciprocity in the timescale of minutes to hours, whereas alternative mechanisms like generalized reciprocity and the possibility of reciprocation over longer timescales of months and years are less often explored. Using a playback experiment, we tested for evidence of direct and generalized reciprocity across short and longer timescales. We examined the exchange of grooming for coalitionary support between unrelated female rhesus macaques in a population with a complete genetic pedigree. Females that received grooming were not more responsive to calls for coalitionary support from unrelated female group mates compared to control females that received agonism or no interaction — even when the call belonged to a females’ most recent grooming partner. Similarly, females were not more responsive to calls for support from their most frequent unrelated grooming partner of the last two years, nor if they received large amounts of grooming from all other females in their group. We interpret these results as an absence of evidence for direct or generalized reciprocity on any timescale in the exchange of grooming for coalitionary support in rhesus macaques. If grooming is exchanged for support in this population, it is with an intensity below our ability to detect it or over a longer timescale than we examined. We propose by-product explanations may also be at play and highlight the importance of investigating multiple mechanisms when testing apparently cooperative behaviors. | en_GB |
dc.description.sponsorship | National Institutes of Health (NIH) | en_GB |
dc.description.sponsorship | Leverhulme Trust | en_GB |
dc.identifier.citation | Vol. 76 (4), article 53 | en_GB |
dc.identifier.doi | https://doi.org/10.1007/s00265-022-03160-2 | |
dc.identifier.grantnumber | R01MH118203 | en_GB |
dc.identifier.grantnumber | R01MH096875 | en_GB |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10871/129182 | |
dc.identifier | ORCID: 0000-0002-1202-1939 (Brent, Lauren JN) | |
dc.language.iso | en | en_GB |
dc.publisher | Springer | en_GB |
dc.relation.url | https://doi.org/10.5061/dryad.pvmcvdnks | en_GB |
dc.rights | © The Author(s) 2022. Open Access. This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article's Creative Commons licence, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article's Creative Commons licence and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this licence, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/. | en_GB |
dc.subject | Grooming | en_GB |
dc.subject | Coalitionary support | en_GB |
dc.subject | Rhesus macaques | en_GB |
dc.subject | Playback experiment | en_GB |
dc.subject | Social relationships | en_GB |
dc.title | No evidence that grooming is exchanged for coalitionary support in the short- or long-term via direct or generalized reciprocity in unrelated rhesus macaques | en_GB |
dc.type | Article | en_GB |
dc.date.available | 2022-03-28T11:01:24Z | |
dc.identifier.issn | 0340-5443 | |
exeter.article-number | 53 | |
dc.description | This is the final version. Available on open access from Springer via the DOI in this record | en_GB |
dc.description | Data availability: The datasets generated during and/or analyzed during the current study are available in the Dryad repository, (doi:https://doi.org/10.5061/dryad.pvmcvdnks). | en_GB |
dc.identifier.eissn | 1432-0762 | |
dc.identifier.journal | Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology | en_GB |
dc.relation.ispartof | Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology, 76(4) | |
dc.rights.uri | https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ | en_GB |
dcterms.dateAccepted | 2022-03-09 | |
rioxxterms.version | VoR | en_GB |
rioxxterms.licenseref.startdate | 2022-03-24 | |
rioxxterms.type | Journal Article/Review | en_GB |
refterms.dateFCD | 2022-03-28T10:58:48Z | |
refterms.versionFCD | VoR | |
refterms.dateFOA | 2022-03-28T11:01:45Z | |
refterms.panel | A | en_GB |
refterms.dateFirstOnline | 2022-03-24 |
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