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A Preliminary Study on the Function of Food Begging in Sichuan Snub-Nosed Monkeys (Rhinopithecus roxellana): Challenge to Begging for Nutritional Gain | |
Zhang, Zhen1,2; Su, Yanjie1; Chan, Raymond C. K.2,3 | |
摘要 | Several hypotheses have been developed to explain what benefits a donor may gain from sharing food with another individual, with nutritional gain assumed to be the sole benefit for the beggar. Recently, it has been proposed that begging behaviour serves a social function in non-human primates. In this study, the nutritional-gain assumption was again challenged based on observations on a captive group of Sichuan snub-nosed monkeys (Rhinopithecus roxellana), or golden snub-nosed monkeys. The major findings from this study are that (1) beggars sometimes left their own branches or passed by available branches to beg for similar food from other individuals, (2) beggars occasionally ignored branches that were acquired by begging and (3) food begging occurred more frequently in the all-male unit after the social rank had changed between 2 individuals in this unit. Overall, these preliminary findings suggest that some begging behaviours in captive golden snub-nosed monkeys were not driven by nutritional gain only; instead, we propose that these begging behaviours could be interpreted as attempts at deriving social benefits. Copyright (C) 2011 S. Karger AG, Basel |
关键词 | Food begging Social function Food transfer Sichuan snub-nosed monkeys Rhinopithecus roxellana |
2010 | |
语种 | 英语 |
发表期刊 | FOLIA PRIMATOLOGICA |
ISSN | 0015-5713 |
卷号 | 81期号:5页码:265-272 |
期刊论文类型 | Article |
收录类别 | SCI |
WOS记录号 | WOS:000286426000003 |
引用统计 | |
文献类型 | 期刊论文 |
条目标识符 | http://ir.psych.ac.cn/handle/311026/13772 |
专题 | 中国科学院心理研究所回溯数据库(1956-2010) |
作者单位 | 1.Peking Univ, Dept Psychol, Beijing 100871, Peoples R China 2.Chinese Acad Sci, Inst Psychol, Key Lab Mental Hlth, Beijing 100101, Peoples R China 3.Chinese Acad Sci, Inst Psychol, Neuropsychol & Appl Cognit Neurosci Lab, Beijing 100101, Peoples R China |
第一作者单位 | 中国科学院心理健康重点实验室 |
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | Zhang, Zhen,Su, Yanjie,Chan, Raymond C. K.. A Preliminary Study on the Function of Food Begging in Sichuan Snub-Nosed Monkeys (Rhinopithecus roxellana): Challenge to Begging for Nutritional Gain[J]. FOLIA PRIMATOLOGICA,2010,81(5):265-272. |
APA | Zhang, Zhen,Su, Yanjie,&Chan, Raymond C. K..(2010).A Preliminary Study on the Function of Food Begging in Sichuan Snub-Nosed Monkeys (Rhinopithecus roxellana): Challenge to Begging for Nutritional Gain.FOLIA PRIMATOLOGICA,81(5),265-272. |
MLA | Zhang, Zhen,et al."A Preliminary Study on the Function of Food Begging in Sichuan Snub-Nosed Monkeys (Rhinopithecus roxellana): Challenge to Begging for Nutritional Gain".FOLIA PRIMATOLOGICA 81.5(2010):265-272. |
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