Comparative study of the social systems of macaques has revealed correlated variations
between species in multiple social traits such as the asymmetry of dominance relationships …

The causes and consequences of being in a particular dominance position have been
illuminated in various animal species, and new methods to assess dominance relationships …

Highlights•Crested macaques engage in severe and lethal intergroup gang
attacks.•Females participate in the attacks more often than males.•Intergroup gang attacks …

Long-term studies of well-identified individuals and improved methodologies have
advanced primate behavioral ecology, genetics, and physiology (Kappeler & Watts, 2012; …

The social complexity hypothesis for communicative complexity posits that animal societies
with more complex social systems require more complex communication systems. We tested …

Although conservation-minded researchers advocate that growers use a variety of methods
to defend crops from wildlife, we know little about the effects of such methods on the targeted …

Studying the link between sociality and fitness is valuable to understand the costs and
benefits of sociality. In many species, sociality is positively linked to fitness: having more …

There is an assumption that apparent tolerance of tourists at long-running primate tourism
sites indicates habituation and that as a result primates no longer experience negative …

Simple Summary Ecotourism managers and field researchers often assume that primates
residing in ecotourism locations are accustomed to people and therefore are not adversely …

Sexual selection explains the evolution of traits that impact mating and reproductive
success. Primates are an excellent system for studying sexually-selected traits, because …