Juvenile Dominance in Eulemur macaco flavifrons: The Influence of Sex and Maternal Rank

Sorry, there is no abstract. Read the first few lines of the text instead! Dominance in juvenile cercopithecines is influenced by both maternal rank and sex [1]. Sub-adult female savanna baboons acquire their mother's rank through maternal intervention during agonistic encounters [2, 3], but sex supercedes maternal rank, as all same-aged juvenile male savanna baboons outrank all juvenile females [4]. Given this pattern in cercopithecines, we might expect all same-aged juvenile females to dominate juvenile males in female-dominated prosimians, but previous studies of Lemur catta (the ringtailed lemur) found that weight and not sex or maternal rank determined juvenile dominance [5]. Juvenile sex did determine the proportion of agonism, as juvenile females initiated and received more aggression from other group females [5].