Table 3 Summary of methods and results.

From: Comparative Investigations of Social Context-Dependent Dominance in Captive Chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes) and Wild Tibetan Macaques (Macaca thibetana)

Species

Study Site

Data Collection Technique

Dominance Contexts

Linearity, Stability, & Null Dyads

Rank Analyses

Correlations with other Social Behaviors

Captive Chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes, N = 7)

Chimpanzee Sanctuary Northwest (Cle Elum, WA, USA)

All-occurrence agonistic and affiliative data collection three days per week from June through August 2017 (N = 31)

Agonistic Competition

h′ = 0.50P = 0.256

Stab = 0.92

Null = 0

DSˆ

Affiliation

Agonism

Nearest Neighbor

I & SIˆ

ELO

PERCˆ

ADAGIOˆ

Lack of Agonism§

h′ = 0.93*

P < 0.01

Stab = 0.98

Null = 0

DSˆ

Affiliation

Agonism

Nearest Neighbor

I & SIˆ

ELOˆ

PERCˆ

ADAGIOˆ

Privileged Role

h′ = 0.93*

P < 0.01

Stab = 0.98

Null = 0

DSˆ

Affiliation

Agonism

Nearest Neighbor

I & SIˆ

ELOˆ

PERCˆ

ADAGIOˆ

Priority Access to Resources§

h′ = 0.75*

P = 0.04

Stab = 0.91

Null = 0

DSˆ

Affiliation

Agonism

Nearest Neighbor

I & SIˆ

ELO

PERCˆ

ADAGIOˆ

Free-ranging (provisioned) adult Tibetan macaques (M. thibetana, N = 24)

Mt. Huangshan (Anhui Province, China)

All-occurrence agonistic and focal-follow allogrooming data collection daily from July through August 2016 (N = 36)

Agonistic Competition§

h′ = 0.34*

P < 0.001

Stab = 0.99

Null = 60%

DSˆ

Grooming

Maternal Kinship

I & SIˆ

ELOˆ

PERCˆ

ADAGIOˆ

Lack of Agonism§

h′ = 0.10 

P = 0.06

Stab = 0.99

Null = 59%

DSˆ

Grooming

Maternal Kinship

I & SIˆ

ELOˆ

PERCˆ

ADAGIOˆ

  1. Notably, in the chimpanzee group, dominance interactions were only significantly linear (h′ > 0.90, P < 0.05) for lack of agonism and privileged role contexts. These same contexts had the highest rank stability (stab >0.98). In the Tibetan macaque group, neither dominance context was considered linear: although this test was statistically significant (P < 0.01), neither h′ value exceeded 0.90 (specifically, h′ <0.35). However, interactions in both contexts were found to be highly stable (stab >0.99). Section marks (§) denote statistically significant correlations (P < 0.05) between median dominance rank for each context within species. Asterisks (*) denote statistically significant results (P < 0.05) for tests of linearity. Circumflexes (ˆ) denote statistically significant correlations (P < 0.05) between ranking statistics within dominance contexts. Diamonds () denote statistically significant correlations (P < 0.05) between median dominance context ranks and other behavioral contexts. “Stab” refers to Elo dominance stability and “null” refers to the percentage of null dyads for each context.