Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of contributors
- Preface
- 1 Old World monkeys: three decades of development and change in the study of the Cercopithecoidea
- 2 The molecular systematics of the Cercopithecidae
- 3 Molecular genetic variation and population structure in Papio baboons
- 4 The phylogeny of the Cercopithecoidea
- 5 Ontogeny of the nasal capsule in cercopithecoids: a contribution to the comparative and evolutionary morphology of catarrhines
- 6 Old World monkey origins and diversification: an evolutionary study of diet and dentition
- 7 Geological context of fossil Cercopithecoidea from eastern Africa
- 8 The oro-facial complex in macaques: tongue and jaw movements in feeding
- 9 Evolutionary morphology of the skull in Old World monkeys
- 10 Evolutionary endocrinology of the cercopithecoids
- 11 Behavioral ecology and socioendocrinology of reproductive maturation in cercopithecine monkeys
- 12 Quantitative assessment of occlusal wear and age estimation in Ethiopian and Tanzanian baboons
- 13 Maternal investment throughout the life span in Old World monkeys
- 14 Cognitive capacities of Old World monkeys based on studies of social behavior
- 15 The effects of predation and habitat quality on the socioecology of African monkeys: lessons from the islands of Bioko and Zanzibar
- 16 The loud calls of black-and-white colobus monkeys: their adaptive and taxonomic significance in light of new data
- 17 Agonistic and affiliative relationships in a blue monkey group
- 18 Locomotor behavior in Ugandan monkeys
- 19 The behavioral ecology of Asian colobines
- Index
13 - Maternal investment throughout the life span in Old World monkeys
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 08 October 2009
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of contributors
- Preface
- 1 Old World monkeys: three decades of development and change in the study of the Cercopithecoidea
- 2 The molecular systematics of the Cercopithecidae
- 3 Molecular genetic variation and population structure in Papio baboons
- 4 The phylogeny of the Cercopithecoidea
- 5 Ontogeny of the nasal capsule in cercopithecoids: a contribution to the comparative and evolutionary morphology of catarrhines
- 6 Old World monkey origins and diversification: an evolutionary study of diet and dentition
- 7 Geological context of fossil Cercopithecoidea from eastern Africa
- 8 The oro-facial complex in macaques: tongue and jaw movements in feeding
- 9 Evolutionary morphology of the skull in Old World monkeys
- 10 Evolutionary endocrinology of the cercopithecoids
- 11 Behavioral ecology and socioendocrinology of reproductive maturation in cercopithecine monkeys
- 12 Quantitative assessment of occlusal wear and age estimation in Ethiopian and Tanzanian baboons
- 13 Maternal investment throughout the life span in Old World monkeys
- 14 Cognitive capacities of Old World monkeys based on studies of social behavior
- 15 The effects of predation and habitat quality on the socioecology of African monkeys: lessons from the islands of Bioko and Zanzibar
- 16 The loud calls of black-and-white colobus monkeys: their adaptive and taxonomic significance in light of new data
- 17 Agonistic and affiliative relationships in a blue monkey group
- 18 Locomotor behavior in Ugandan monkeys
- 19 The behavioral ecology of Asian colobines
- Index
Summary
Introduction
Cercopithecid monkey life histories include a period between weaning and sexual maturation when juveniles of both sexes continue to reside with their mothers. In many species, especially among the Cercopithecinae, mature daughters live in their natal group throughout their life span. This social system allows maternal influence on the behavior, development, and reproduction of offspring to extend far beyond early infancy. In such societies, mothers have the opportunity to influence their lifetime reproductive success, not only through production and care of infants, but also through maternal care that promotes survival of juvenile offspring and the reproduction of adult daughters.
Field studies of the 1960s produced detailed descriptions of mother-infant behavior (DeVore, 1963; Jay, 1963; Struhsaker, 1971; Ransom and Rowell, 1972), but the more subtle relationships between mothers and their older offspring were more difficult to detect, and kinship among older animals was rarely known with certainty. Since that time, longitudinal studies of individually recognized animals in captive and freeranging populations have documented the ongoing nature of the mother–offspring and, particularly, the mother–daughter relationship. Longitudinal data on known individuals are now available for numerous free-ranging populations of macaques (Macaca), baboons (Papio), vervet monkeys (Chlorocebus aethiops, s.l.), and Hanuman langurs (Semnopithecus entellus) (e.g. Koyama, 1970; Kurland, 1977; Hasegawa and Hiraiwa, 1980; Horrocks and Hunte, 1983; Altmann et al., 1988; Cheney et al., 1988; Dittus, 1988; Rhine et al., 1988; Mori et al., 1989; Nakamichi, 1989; Smuts and Nicolson, 1989; Borries et al., 1994).
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- Old World Monkeys , pp. 341 - 367Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2000
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