Schneider, Gudrun and Krueger, Konstanze (2012) Third-party interventions keep social partners from exchanging affiliative interactions with others. ANIMAL BEHAVIOUR, 83 (2). pp. 377-387. ISSN 0003-3472, 1095-8282
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Third-party interventions are defined as the interruption of dyadic interactions by third animals through direct physical contact, interposing or threats. Previous studies focused on the analysis of interventions against agonistic encounters. However, there have been no evaluations of interventions against affiliative behaviours, particularly in relation to the intervening animal's social relationships and its social and spatial position. Horses, Equus caballus, are an interesting model species, as interventions against affiliative interactions occur more frequently than against agonistic interactions. In this study, 64 feral horses displayed 67 interventions in affiliative interactions and eight interventions in agonistic interactions within the observation period. We analysed the interventions in affiliative encounters, and found that it was mainly higher-ranking females that intervened in the affiliative interactions of group mates in the stable horse harems. The intervening animals took an active part in affiliative and agonistic encounters within the group, but did not occupy particular social roles or spatial positions. They intervened in affiliative interactions in which group mates with which they had social bonds interacted with other members of the group. They targeted the nonbonded animal and approached the one with which they were socially bonded. We suggest some species use third-party interventions in affiliative interactions to prevent competition for preferred social interaction partners from escalating into more costly agonistic encounters. (C) 2011 The Association for the Study of Animal Behaviour. Published by Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Uncontrolled Keywords: | HORSES EQUUS-CABALLUS; FERAL HORSES; DOMINANCE HIERARCHIES; ANIMAL SOCIETIES; BEHAVIOR; HERD; PATTERNS; COOPERATION; AGGRESSION; EVOLUTION; Equus caballus; horse; rank; social bond; social network; third-party intervention |
| Subjects: | 500 Science > 570 Life sciences 500 Science > 590 Zoological sciences |
| Divisions: | Biology, Preclinical Medicine > Institut für Zoologie |
| Depositing User: | Dr. Gernot Deinzer |
| Date Deposited: | 20 May 2020 05:47 |
| Last Modified: | 20 May 2020 05:47 |
| URI: | https://pred.uni-regensburg.de/id/eprint/19318 |
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