Funkce čištění srsti v kontextu sexuálního chování

Bc. Vendula GREGOROVÁ

Master's thesis

Abstract:

The main aim of this study was to investigate whether males and females of Barbary macaques (Macaca sylvanus) use social grooming as a commodity on the biological market. More specifically, it is focused on the exchange of grooming and mating opportunities. I have analyzed the exchange on three different levels: i) the long-term exchange, ii) short-term exchange of grooming for subsequent mating opportunity and iii) short-term patterns between grooming and mating, including assessment of rates of pre- and postsexual grooming. The results demonstrate that primates can trade grooming for sex and it seems that they do it on long-term rather than on immediate basis. Such relationship between grooming and mating might support the importance of long-term relationships between males and females. The result of the study also show that females groom males more often after the sexual activity, however males grooming was not affected by context (pre-, post-, non sexual).

Jazyk práce: Czech

Datum vytvoření / odevzdání či podání práce: 19. 4. 2017

Obhajoba závěrečné práce

• Vedúci: Mgr. Martina Konečná, Ph.D.

UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH BOHEMIA IN ČESKÉ BUDĚJOVICE

Faculty of Science

Master programme / odbor:
Zoology / Zoology