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This paper analyzes allogrooming (social grooming) data collected from two large, fully integrated and long established social groups of macaques (one of pigtail macaques and one of bonnet macaques). The data demonstrates a species and sex difference for total allogrooming given with females of both species giving more grooming than the males and with pigtails as a species giving more grooming than bonnets. Also, pigtail females gave more allogrooming to clan members than to nonclan members, but this was not true for pigtail males, bonnet males, and bonnet females. Allogrooming given and allogrooming received by age class for both species showed development of a sexual dichotomy at three to four years. The analysis characterized some of the social structures extant in two closely related species of macaque, particularly the somewhat different use of allogrooming in pigtail females as opposed to the other three categories of animals. Social implications with relation to macaque societies are discussed.
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Defler, T.R. Allogrooming in two species of macaque (Macaca nemestrina andMacaca radiata). Primates 19, 153–167 (1978). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02373232
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