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Habitat-dependent intergroup hostility in Diana monkeys, Cercopithecus diana

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Date
08/2021
Author
Decellieres, Maxence
Zuberbühler, Klaus
León, Julián
Keywords
Cercopithecus diana
Dear enemy
Habitat quality
Nasty neighbour
Primary forest
Secondary forest
QL Zoology
3rd-DAS
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Territorial threat is costly and variable across contexts and behavioural flexibility is favoured to maximize any cost/benefit ratio. This is well illustrated in how animals react to familiar or unfamiliar outgroup members. In some situations, neighbours are better tolerated than strangers, resulting in a ‘dear-enemy effect’; in other situations, the pattern is reversed, resulting in a ‘nasty-neighbour effect’. Typically, the effects are species-specific traits, although both can also occur within the same species. Here, we investigated wild Diana monkeys of Taï Forest (Ivory Coast) in their reactions to outgroup individuals using playbacks of both familiar and unfamiliar male alarm calls to eagles. We found that groups living in primary forest (high group density, high food availability and low predation pressure) followed a ‘nasty neighbour’ strategy whereas groups living in secondary forest (low group density, low resources and high predation risk) followed a ‘dear enemy’ strategy, suggesting that group density, predation pressure and food availability can impact how hostile behaviour is displayed in nonhuman primates. Our results confirm a high behavioural flexibility in primate relationships between conspecifics of different identities depending on ecological traits of the habitat.
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Decellieres , M , Zuberbühler , K & León , J 2021 , ' Habitat-dependent intergroup hostility in Diana monkeys, Cercopithecus diana ' , Animal Behaviour , vol. 178 , pp. 95-104 . https://doi.org/10.1016/j.anbehav.2021.06.001
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Animal Behaviour
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Peer reviewed
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https://doi.org/10.1016/j.anbehav.2021.06.001
ISSN
0003-3472
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Journal item
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Copyright © 2021 The Association for the Study of Animal Behaviour. This work has been made available online in accordance with publisher policies or with permission. Permission for further reuse of this content should be sought from the publisher or the rights holder. This is the author created accepted manuscript following peer review and may differ slightly from the final published version. The final published version of this work is available at https://doi.org/10.1016/j.anbehav.2021.06.001
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Authors thank the Centre Suisse de Recherches Scientifiques, the Ministère de la Recherche Scientifique and the Ministère de l’Agriculture et des Ressources Animales of Côte d’Ivoire for support and permission to conduct research in the Taï National Park.
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http://hdl.handle.net/10023/25568

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