(QUIZ 9) Flashcards
(25 cards)
In societies with female social hierarchies, offspring inhertit their mothers’ social rank. If offspring migrate at adulthood, they have to re-establish social rank. If the male remains in the natal group at adulthood but needs to enter a strongly hierarchical male society, he will have to re-establish social rank. If the female remains in her natal group at adulthood, she will not change social rank and, normally, she cannot change her rank.
True
The cercopithecoid “red, white, and blue” display is applicable to female vervets.
False
There are numerous challenges for low-ranking moms in large multimale-multifemale societies. If the group has strong social hierarchies among females, a low-ranking female may become pregnant so late in the breeding season that her baby will be born in a period of low food abundance.
True
Unusual patterns of fruit availability on the island of Borneo, may explain the unusual social structure and lack of adult socialization in Bornean orangutans.
True
Some male orangutans can avoid attracting attention from other males by failing to display maleness.
True
Both pygmy marmosets and gibbons are extremely territorial and this is related to their common social structure.
False
Promisicuous is not a useful term and should be replaced by the phrase “multiple mating partners.”
True
Gibbon dueting may be correlated to a social structure based on territoriality.
True
For primate species with strong social hierarchies, building political alliances can be extremely important.
True
Lowland gorilla social structure and mountain gorilla social structure are identical.
Fasle
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Society based on non-socialization between adults; females have small individual territories; male territory overlaps with female territories.
Noyau
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Society with multiple individuals in a fairly even sex ratio of males and females and their offspring but only one reproductively active female.
Communal Breeding
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Society comprised of one adult male and one adult female and their offspring.
pair bonded family
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Society with multiple individuals in a fairly even sex ratio of males and females and their offspring.
Multimale multifemale
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Society with multiple individuals in a fairly even sex ratio of males and females and their offspring but fluid and unpredictable socialization.
Fission Fussion
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Society comprised of one adult male and two or more females and their offspring.
Unimale Multifemale
Harem is the best term for a social group comprised of a single adult male, several adult females and their offspring.
False
One of the primary challenges for unimale-multifemale groups is the constant threat of group take-over attempts by bachelor males.
True
Orangutan children take an incredibly long time to develop – they have the longest period of maternal dependence of all nonhuman primates.
True
Nocturnal and solitary strepsirhines and the members of one hominoid genus express the noyau social structure.
True
Callitrichine social structure appears to reduce some of the energetic costs of female reproduction.
True
The social structure of spider monkeys appears to reduce direct feeding competition for fruit.
True
Sympatric African apes have adopted the same social system and it appears to accomodate similar dietary preferences in these large-bodied hominoids.
True
In unimale-multifemale groups, the adult male is always intolerant of his young adult male sons.
False
