My collaborators and I have four presentations at the Congress that will feature data from our study in Group S on Cayo Santiago, mostly collected during the unusual tenure of 11Z as alpha (mating season 2013).
On Monday, Megan Petersdorf (NUY) will talk about male facial colour and male-male competitive encounters
On Tuesday, Kevin Rosenfield (Roehampton Uni/Penn State) will talk about how females prefer looking at more masculine-faced males and then on Thursday, he will do a poster on the relationship between male face shape (width-to-height ratio) and male competitive ability and reproduction.
Finally, on Friday, I will have some data on male androgen levels and how they relate (or not) to rank, mating effort and fecundity.
Come and check them out!
You can also have a look at some related papers from my work on Cayo below:
(email me for a PDF if you don’t have access)
Oxidative stress as an indicator of the costs of reproduction among free-ranging rhesus macaques
Male quality, dominance rank and mating success in free-ranging rhesus macaques
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