ANTH 1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 17: Birmingham City Centre, Pair Bond, Cognitive Map
6 Aug 2020
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Total area used for all daily and seasonal activities. Core area: area within the home range that has the heaviest usage. Seasonal changes from season to season. Territory: for a particular primate group, a territory is a specific area that is actively defended and exclusively used. Actively defend (must know where the boundaries are conscious construct in the. Not all groups will have a territory. Differs from species to species animals minds), exclusively used. May occur if preferred food resources are clumped in space. (intra-sexual selection) may occur if the preferred mating behaviour is males competing amongst each other for females. (inter-sexual selection) females choosing which males to mate with. No primate species is exclusively this behaviour. The proportion of selection can differ from species to species. Q: how is territoriality expressed: vocalization ie. indrii, howler monkey, scent marking using urine or scent glands rubbed on branches. Display: doing something to threaten/intimidate another individual.
