Abstract
In the Hamadryas baboon, males are substantially larger than females. A troop of baboons is subdivided into a number of ‘one-male groups’, consisting of one adult male and one or more females with their young. The male prevents any of ‘his’ females from moving too far from him. Kummer (1971) performed the following experiment. Two males, A and B, previously unknown to each other, were placed in a large enclosure. Male A was free to move about the enclosure, but male B was shut in a small cage, from which he could observe A but not interfere. A female, unknown to both males, was then placed in the enclosure. Within 20 minutes male A had persuaded the female to accept his ownership. Male B was then released into the open enclosure. Instead of challenging male A , B avoided any contact, accepting A’s ownership.
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Matthews, D.E. (1977). Evolution and the Theory of Games. In: Matthews, D.E. (eds) Mathematics and the Life Sciences. Lecture Notes in Biomathematics, vol 18. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-93067-6_14
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