caa a22 4500 475769031 CHVBK 20180406123614.0 cr unu---uuuuu 170329e20000401xx s 000 0 eng 10.1023/A:1005425520658 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1023/A:1005425520658 Functional Implications of Allogrooming in Cercocebus torquatus [Elektronische Daten] [Ana Pérez, Joaquim Veà] We examined the hygienic functional hypothesis of allogrooming in two captive groups (N = 9 and N = 8) of white-crowned mangabeys (Cercocebus torquatus lunulatus) by analyzing the corporeal distribution of allogrooming solicitations according to the variable degree of accessibility of the various body sites. We used focal-animal sampling and continuous recording and nonparametric statistics (sing test and χ2). The fact that in both groups more allogrooming was solicited to sites associated with accessibility problems is consistent with the hygienic functional hypothesis of allogrooming. In any case, there are two facts that suggest that this hypothesis cannot account for all the characteristics of such behavior: 1) the strong distributional selectivity shown by allogrooming solicitations—they concentrated primarily on dorsal and caudal regions instead of those difficult to reach or inaccessible on the whole—and 2) the significant role played by sex in the intragroup distribution of anogenital solicitations. Supporting the multifunctional nature of allogrooming, we find very appealing the ritualization hypothesis, according to which the allogrooming performed on certain body sites would have acquired a sociocommunicative meaning. Plenum Publishing Corporation, 2000 allogrooming nationallicence primates nationallicence function nationallicence hygiene nationallicence Cercocebus nationallicence Pérez Ana E-mail: aperez@psi.ub.es aut Veà Joaquim E-mail: aperez@psi.ub.es aut International Journal of Primatology Kluwer Academic Publishers-Plenum Publishers 21/2(2000-04-01), 255-267 0164-0291 21:2<255 2000 21 10764 https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1005425520658 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1005425520658 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Pérez Ana E-mail: aperez@psi.ub.es aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Veà Joaquim E-mail: aperez@psi.ub.es aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- International Journal of Primatology Kluwer Academic Publishers-Plenum Publishers 21/2(2000-04-01), 255-267 0164-0291 21:2<255 2000 21 10764 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer