14-infanticide is adaptive in langur monkeys (by barez)
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Gyne Faith C. Barez
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InfanticideInfanticiderefers to the killing of dependent
offspring, or more formally, to “any behavior that makes a direct and significant contribution to the immediate death of an embryo or newly hatched or born member of the perpetrator’s own species” (Hrdy & Hausfater 1984).
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widespread in animal kingdom… birds (sparrows & swallows) rodents (mice & ground squirrels) lions primates (lemurs, monkeys, chimps,
gorillas)
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mostly committed by males adult males kill unweaned infants not
related to them
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Five explanatory hypothesesFive explanatory hypotheses
Population Control To prevent overpopulation that threatens
group survival.
Competition for Resources Males kill infants to make more resources
available to their kin and descendants.
Cannibalism Males kill infants and consume them as food.
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Social pathology hypothesis langur infanticide is abnormal
Sexual selection hypothesis infanticide is a male reproductive tactic
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DNA analyses support the DNA analyses support the hypothesis that infanticide is hypothesis that infanticide is adaptive in langur monkeysadaptive in langur monkeys
Carola Borries, Kristin Launhardt,Cornelia Epplen, Jörg T. Epplen
and Paul Winkler
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IntroductionIntroduction
The killing of infants, although a common phenomenon, its causes and consequences still remain hotly debated.
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Five explanatory hypotheses (Hydy & Hausfater 1984) Sexual Selection Social Pathology
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Sexual selection hypothesisSexual selection hypothesis
infanticide results from reproductive competition between males
male will gain reproductive advantage provided that:
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the male is not related to the infant he kills the death of an unweaned infant shortens
the subsequent interbirth interval of the mother
the killer increases his chances of mating with the mother and siring her next infant
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Social Pathology HypothesisSocial Pathology Hypothesis
infanticide results from high male aggression caused by unnatural living conditions and has no adaptive value
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Primate females, after having lost their dependent infant, resume sexual activity earlier and bear the next infant significantly sooner than females with surviving infants.
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Infanticidal males were new immigrants, sexually immature or not observed to copulate with the mother during the time when the infant was conceived.
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Aim…Aim…
resolve the controversy of whether infanticide by adult males can be an adaptive male reproductive tactic in Hanuman langurs
whether it is in accordance with the sexual selection hypothesis
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Material and MethodsMaterial and Methods
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18 wild groups of Hanuman langurs were studied in a semi-evergreen forest near the village of Rannagar, Southern Nepal
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During more than 37 000 h spent in contact with the langurs one infanticide was witnessed seven cases were likely or assumed 24 severe though non-fatal attacks by adult
males on infants were observed three were inferred from wounds
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DNA ProfilingDNA Profiling
DNA was extracted from faeces and were stored in 100% ethanol
Five informative microsatellite loci used for paternity exclusions: D16S420, D12S67, SCA1, D17S791 and
D4S2366
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Whenever a male could be excluded by at least one microsatellite system he was treated as a non-father.
If he could not be excluded he was considered as the likely father.
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35 observed or inferred events of infanticide or attacks concerned 24 male-infant pairs 16 pairs complete set of faecal samples 41 sexually mature langur males entered
the analysis
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RESULTSRESULTS
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Table 1. Kin relationship between male langurs and the infantsthey attacked or killed(Numbers indicate male-infant pairs.)
male
paternity analysis
excludes the males as father
no DNA sample for male or
infant total
attacked infanta 11 2 16
killed infant (presumedb)
0 5 5
killed infant (likelyc) 1 1 2
killed infant (witnessed)
1 0 1
total 16 8 24
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Table 2. Kin relationship between presumed killers and thesubsequent infants of the victims' mothers
infanct killed
(presumably)
presumed killera
subsequent infanta
likely father of
subsequent infanta
paternity exclusion probability
X2.2 M65 X2.3 M65 72%b
MX4.4 M65 MX4.2 M65 99.9%
MO10.2 M69 or M70 MO10.3 M70c 91%
O11.1 M69 or M70 O11.2 M70c 91.5%
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DISCUSSIONDISCUSSION
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male langurs at Ramnagar invariably killed or attacked only infants they had not sired
infanticidal males seem to benefit from infanticide
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Sexual selection hypothesis interpreting infanticide is an evolved, adaptive male reproductive tactic
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