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Mayer, Walter (1971). Gruppenverhalten von Totenkopfaffen unter besonderer Berücksichtigung der Kommunikationstheorie.
This paper presents an analysis of interactions of squirrel monkeys (Saimiri sciureus) by using the principles of bidirectional communication theory. This theory of Marko and Neuburger is a generalization of Shannon's information theory and allows the description of the dominance relations of a two-partner situation. In the present case the observed behavioural sequences nearly correspond to Markoff chains of the 4th order. Two typical strategies regarding the exercise of dominance were observed during a change in dominance between two animals. A comparison with respective findings on social psychology is possible.
| Saimiri sciureus |
Where the specimens that recordings are of were collected, not where the sound was recorded