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SUBMITTER: Markham AC
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5498300 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Aug
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Markham A Catherine AC Gesquiere Laurence R LR
Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences 20170801 1727
Group size is a fundamental component of sociality, and has important consequences for an individual's fitness as well as the collective and cooperative behaviours of the group as a whole. This review focuses on how the costs and benefits of group living vary in female primates as a function of group size, with a particular emphasis on how competition within and between groups affects an individual's energetic balance. Because the repercussions of chronic energetic stress can lower an animal's f ...[more]