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1
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“Civilization and its discontents”

  • who said this?
  • what does it mean?
A
  • Sigmund Freud
  • get familiar with your own group
  • animals have the need to form ingroups and outgroups
  • people resent the leader even if they’re the most popular
2
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Solly Zuckerman

  • what did he write?
  • what did he study?
  • what did he conclude?
A
  • studied the importance of dominance hierarchy in baboons
  • intrinsic part of group life
  • :Social life of monkeys and apes
3
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Territoriality

-2 reasons

A
  • males want territory for 2 reasons:
    1) defense of resources
    2) access to mates
4
Q

Dominance

A

-status is important

5
Q

Relationship between dominance and aggression

A
  • frequency of aggression shoots up when a new male enters the territory of another male
  • fighting stops when hierarchy is clarified
  • graph of time since group formation and frequency of aggression
6
Q

are dominance and aggression synonymous?

A
  • no

- aggression is a mode of communication

7
Q

Dominance

A
  • relationional construct
  • not an attribute of an individual
  • you can have dominance without any fighting
  • fighting only happens if hierarchy needs to be established
8
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Thor Schjelderup

A
  • “pecking order”
  • take 2 monkeys, one will be one and one will be 2
  • intrinsic disposition
9
Q

why does fighting happen

A
  • space: more space, less fighting
  • unfamiliarity
  • xenophobia
10
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functions of fighting

A
  • space, mates
  • resources: food, water
  • “priority of access to desired but limited incentives
  • want to be alpha when resources are limited because they get first priority
11
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ways to measure dominance

A
  • aggression/threats
  • symbolic displays - teeth baring
  • location/displacement - height in tree
  • grooming - alpha gets more grooming
  • food and water competition tests - throw banana, see who goes for it first
  • sexual activity
12
Q

which are the two worst ways to measure dominance?

A
  • aggression

- sexual activity

13
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open mouth threat

A
  • very common

- every primate has a variation of this

14
Q

squirrel monkey - how they show aggression

A
  • genital display

- alpha sticks genitals into face of lesser monkey

15
Q

factors that affect dominance/competition

A
  • increase in mating season
  • less receptive females
  • limited food/water holes
  • shade trees/limited shade
16
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complexities in dominance/competition

A
  • dependent rank
  • alliances
  • winning/losing syndrome
  • genetic/hormonal/learned
  • rank not always a successful strategy
  • reconciliation
17
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dependent rank example

A
  • Japanese macaque matriline

- get rank from mother/siblings

18
Q

alliances example

  • chimps?
  • person who studied this?
A
  • Figan and Faben

- Frank de Waal - Chimp politics

19
Q

winning/losing syndrome

A

-dominant usually wins

20
Q

genetic/hormonal/learned

A
  • forget to mate

- alpha don’t always reproduce most

21
Q

young males reaching puberty - what happens?

A
  • more charging displays

- something intrinsic

22
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Rock, Shadow, Bandit (1,2,3)

A
  • Shadow and Rock kept doing displays (charging)

- 1 yr later, rock and shadow switched, Rock never returned