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Intrasexual selection and male mating strategies in baboons and macaques

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If baboon and macaque mating systems constitute a form of female defense polygyny, male mating strategies should be intrasexually selected and should vary in predictable ways with female defensibility, and demographic factors which affect the numbers of competing males per estrous female in populations. Substantial behavioral evidence exists for intrasexual selection of male mating strategies in baboons and macaques. Limited evidence also offers tentative support for theorybased predictions about the relationship between male mating strategy and female defensibility. Although male dominance rank generally predicts mating success, there are a number of factors which tend to increase the success of subordinate males above that expected from a simple dominance-based model of priority of access to mates.

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Berenstain, L., Wade, T.D. Intrasexual selection and male mating strategies in baboons and macaques. Int J Primatol 4, 201–235 (1983). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02743758

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