168 Citations
Reciprocal Allogrooming in Wild Impala Lambs
- Psychology, Biology
- 2010
The strong predisposition of neonatal impala lambs to deliver reciprocal allogrooming as early as the first or second week postpartum would appear to reflect a genetically acquired adaptation to the threat of tick infestation in their natural habitat.
Reciprocal Allogrooming in Dam‐reared and Hand‐reared Impala Fawns
- Psychology, Biology
- 2010
It is postulate that the strong predisposition for impala young to groom others may be related to the threat of tick infestation in the impala's ecotone habitat.
Evidence for an important social role of allogrooming in a platyrrhine primate
- Psychology, BiologyAnimal Behaviour
- 1997
Evidence is provided that allogrooming in this platyrrhine species serves an important social function, as has been demonstrated for catarrhine primates, by the close relationship between allogsrooming, the social system and coalition formation and the changes in quantity and direction of grooming in response to oestrous behaviour and to the birth of infants.
Conditional allogrooming in the herb-field mouse
- Biology, Psychology
- 2001
Allogrooming is suggested to be the predominant premating mechanism in the herbfield mouse in those species where the demand for mating by males is far greater than that offered by females, in other words where females may select mates.
Dual function of allopreening in the cooperatively breeding green woodhoopoe, Phoeniculus purpureus
- BiologyBehavioral Ecology and Sociobiology
- 2006
The results suggest that allopreening of the head and neck (“head”), which cannot be efficiently self-preened, serves a primarily hygienic function: all individuals, irrespective of sex, dominance status, and group size, donated and received similar rates of head allopreens and terminated a similar proportion of bouts in which they were involved.
ASSOCIATIVE BEHAVIOUR IN PRZEWALSKI’S HORSES REINTRODUCED INTO MONGOLIA
- Psychology, BiologyNature Conservation Research
- 2019
The hypothesis that associative behaviours in Przewalski horses were simply reciprocal hygienic arrangements with no evidence that kin selection was involved is supported, although a social element to the behaviours cannot be completely ruled out.
Male social relationships among wild Assamese macaques (Macaca assamensis)
- Biology, Psychology
- 2016
Whether three characteristics of social bonds (differentiation in strength, equitability and partner stability) are found between males of the dispersing sex are found, and whether a behavioural proximate mechanism other than grooming might underlie bond formation and maintenance is shed.
Interactions between impala and oxpeckers at Matobo National Park, Zimbabwe
- Biology
- 1996
Interactions between yellow-billed oxpeckers and impala were investigated at Matobo National Park, Zimbabwe during the wet and dry seasons, and an interaction was apparent between the tick-removal strategies of oxpecker and their impala hosts.
The function of allogrooming in domestic cats (Felis silvestris catus); a study in a group of cats living in confinement
- Psychology, BiologyJournal of Ethology
- 2008
The hypothesis that allogrooming in domestic cats may be a way of redirecting (potential) aggression in situations in which overt aggression is too costly is consistent with the hypothesis that the degree of relatedness of animals did not affect the frequencies or durations of grooming.
References
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Autogrooming and Social Grooming in Impala a
- Biology
- 1988
The purpose of this study was to analyze features of impala grooming that might differentiate them from other antelope species and would relate to increased tick exposure.
Differential foraging of oxpeckers on impala in comparison with sympatric antelope species
- Environmental Science
- 1990
ummary
Regression analysis performed on published observations of oxpeckers foraging for ticks on different species of ungulates revealed a significant positive relationship between number of…
Home range, dispersal and the clan system of impala
- Environmental Science
- 1982
Female impala enhance their breeding success by longevity rather than competition and this was achieved through the clan system and its variation is related to cycling of resources in neighbouring habitats, and to differences in territorial behaviour by adult males.
Rearing the Long-Nosed Cattle Louse and Cattle Biting Louse on Host Animals in Oregon
- Biology
- 1967
During the spring and summer months in the Willamette Valley of Oregon, populations of cattle lice normally decline. However, when the cattle were restrained from self-grooming, small natural…
The distribution of grooming and related behaviours among adult female vervet monkeys
- PsychologyAnimal Behaviour
- 1980
Boophilus microplus (acarina: ixodidae): experimental infestations on cattle restrained from grooming.
- Biology, MedicineExperimental parasitology
- 1969
Grooming, alliances and reciprocal altruism in vervet monkeys
- Psychology, BiologyNature
- 1984
The field experiments on vervet monkeys are demonstrated to demonstrate that grooming between unrelated individuals increases the probability that they will subsequently attend to each others' solicitations for aid.
Evolutionary Pattern and Process in the Sister-Group Alcelaphini-Aepycerotini (Mammalia: Bovidae)
- Biology
- 1984
It is suggested that the causes of different kinds of evolution may be especially well studied in low-ranking sister-groups that include a fossil record plus extant survivors, and that are still in a phase of evolutionary radiation.
The effect of self-licking by cattle on infestations of cattle tick, Boophilus microplus (Canestrini)
- Biology
- 1956
Infestations of Boophilus microplus (Canestrini) were established by applying single batches of larvae to individually stalled cattle, and the percentage yields of engorged female ticks from animals…