Authors: Ivan Norscia Elisabetta Palagi
Publish Date: 2010/07/06
Volume: 29, Issue: 1, Pages: 181-185
Abstract
Postconflict behaviour has been widely investigated in anthropoid primates but not extensively in prosimians Here we report the reconciliation pattern of a 14individual group of wild brown lemurs Eulemur fulvus in the Berenty gallery forest South Madagascar We found that reconciliation occurs only in the nonfeeding context and that it works in reducing the risk of renewed aggression Thus reconciliation would provide an immediate positive feedback that is probably independent of the quality of the relationship between opponents Reconciliation may also be a hicetnunc mechanism needed to avoid conflict spreading across group members possibly leading to social disruption
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