Individuals in urban dwelling primate species face unequal benefits associated with living in an anthropogenic environment
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Authors
Marty, Pascal RBalasubramaniam, Krishna N
Kaburu, Stefano
Hubbard, Josephine
Beisner, Brianne
Bliss-Moreau, Eliza
Ruppert, Nadine
Arlet, Małgorzata E
Sah, Shahrul Anuar Mohd
Mohan, Lalit
Rattan, Sandeep K
Kodandaramaiah, Ullasa
McCowan, Brenda
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2019-11-26
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In primates, living in an anthropogenic environment can significantly improve an individual’s fitness, which is likely attributed to access to anthropogenic food resources. However, in non-professionally provisioned groups, few studies have examined whether individual attributes, such as dominance rank and sex, affect primates’ ability to access anthropogenic food. Here, we investigated whether rank and sex explain individual differences in the proportion of anthropogenic food consumed by macaques. We observed 319 individuals living in nine urban groups across three macaque species. We used proportion of anthropogenic food in the diet as a proxy of access to those food resources. Males and high-ranking individuals in both sexes had significantly higher proportions of anthropogenic food in their diets than other individuals. We speculate that unequal access to anthropogenic food resources further increases within-group competition, and may limit fitness benefits in an anthropogenic environment to certain individuals.Citation
Marty, P. R., Balasubramaniam, K.N., Kaburu, S.S.K. et al. (2019) Individuals in urban dwelling primate species face unequal benefits associated with living in an anthropogenic environment, Primates (2019). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10329-019-00775-4Publisher
Springer NatureJournal
PrimatesAdditional Links
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs10329-019-00775-4Type
Journal articleLanguage
enISSN
0032-8332Sponsors
This work was supported by the U.S. National Science Foundation (Grant no. 1518555).ae974a485f413a2113503eed53cd6c53
10.1007/s10329-019-00775-4
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