Comparative studies of social behavior in Callicebus and Saimiri: Behavioral and physiological responses of established pairs to unfamiliar pairs

• Published in: American journal of primatology Vol. 11; no. 1; p. 37
• Main Authors: Anzenberger, G, Mendoza, S P, Mason, W A
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: United States 1986
• Subjects: cortisol; stranger confrontations; social relationships; titi monkeys; cardiac activity; squirrel monkeys

Comparisons were made of the behavioral and physiological responses of heterosexual pairs of two closely related New World primates, Callicebus moloch and Saimiri sciureus, to confrontations with unfamiliar pairs. Subject pairs were exposed to strangers in two situations differing in the presumed de...