Comments on: Friendship In Male And Female Baboons http://primatology.net/2010/03/02/friendship-in-male-and-female-baboons/ We ain’t monkeyin’ around here. Fri, 11 May 2012 12:00:54 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: muhr http://primatology.net/2010/03/02/friendship-in-male-and-female-baboons/#comment-14465 Wed, 24 Aug 2011 08:59:38 +0000 http://primatology.net/?p=673#comment-14465 An old post but in case anybody reads this, there are at least 2 newish studies that seem to partly answer the question of why these friendships form.

“Friendships” between new mothers and adult males: adaptive benefits and determinants in wild baboons. (Papio cynocephalus)

http://anthro.fullerton.edu/nganguyen/publications/Nguyen%20et%20al%202009.pdf

Half of male friends in the above study were the father of the offspring. The other half weren’t fathers and in fact had platonic friendships with the females, so what they obtained from the relationship is undetermined.

Hedging their bets? Male and female chacma baboons form friendships based on likelihood of paternity.

http://www.psych.upenn.edu/~seyfarth/Publications/moscovice%20-%20anim%20behav.pdf

As the title indicates, more evidence that paternity plays a role in male-female friendship.

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