Do deposed adult male Sichuan snub-nosed monkeys Rhinopithecus roxellana roam as solitary bachelors or continue to interact with former band members?

• 来源期刊: 动物学报（英文版）
• 年，卷（期）: 2009,（3）
• 页码范围: 235-237
• 页数: 3页
• 语种: 英文

摘要

Dispersal pattems exhibited by group-living animals play an important role in individual reproductive success and survival, as well as population and social dynamics (Greenwood, 1980; Isbell and van Vuren, 1996; Kappeler and van Schaik, 2002). Dispersing individuals may emigrate voluntarily, or they may be forcibly evicted by other individuals (Pusey and Packer, 1987; Clobert et al., 2001). One cause of individual dispersal is when an extra-group male compels another male to leave a group of females. This phenomenon has been well documented in primates, especially Old World monkey species (e.g. Colobus vellerosus: Saj and Sicotte, 2005; Erythrocebus patas: Ohsawa, 2003; Macaca fascicularis: van Noordwijk and van Schaik, 2001).