A Workshop in Ecology and Behaviour seminar hosted by the School of Biological Sciences

Nicola Koyama

Abstract: For group-living animals, competition over finite resources, such as food or mates, inevitably leads to costly conflict. The immediate consequences of conflict on an individual’s behaviour has been well studied, but less well understood is how conflict within or between groups is related to overall group cohesion. This talk considers how different levels of conflict (and risk of) influence social cohesion in three species of non-human primate by considering intragroup conflict in common chimpanzees, intergroup conflict in crested macaques and interspecific conflict in vervet monkeys.