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Policing in nonhuman primates: partial interventions serve a prosocial conflict management function in rhesus macaques by Beisner, Brianne A, McCowan, Brenda

“…Studies of prosocial policing in nonhuman societies traditionally focus on impartial interventions because of an underlying assumption that partial support…”
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Personality trait structures across three species of Macaca, using survey ratings of responses to conspecifics and humans by Pritchard, Alexander J, Bliss-Moreau, Eliza, Balasubramaniam, Krishna N, Capitanio, John P, Marty, Pascal R, Kaburu, Stefano S K, Arlet, Małgorzata E, Beisner, Brianne A, McCowan, Brenda

“…Comparative studies reliant on single personality surveys to rate wild primates are scarce yet remain critical for developing a holistic comparative…”
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Affiliation and disease risk: social networks mediate gut microbial transmission among rhesus macaques by Balasubramaniam, Krishna N., Beisner, Brianne A., Hubbard, Josephine A., Vandeleest, Jessica J., Atwill, Edward R., McCowan, Brenda

“…In social animals, affiliative behaviours bring many benefits, but also costs such as disease risk. The ways in which affiliation may affect the risk of…”
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Signaling context modulates social function of silent bared-teeth displays in rhesus macaques (Macaca mulatta) by Beisner, Brianne A., McCowan, Brenda

“…The signaling context has been found to change the meaning of the silent bared‐teeth display (SBT) in pigtail macaques (Macaca nemestrina) such that the SBT in…”
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Consensus ranking for multi-objective interventions in multiplex networks by Pósfai, Márton, Braun, Niklas, Beisner, Brianne A, McCowan, Brenda, D'Souza, Raissa M

“…High-centrality nodes have disproportionate influence on the behavior of a network; therefore controlling such nodes can efficiently steer the system to a…”
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Impact of joint interactions with humans and social interactions with conspecifics on the risk of zooanthroponotic outbreaks among wildlife populations by Balasubramaniam, Krishna N., Aiempichitkijkarn, Nalina, Kaburu, Stefano S. K., Marty, Pascal R., Beisner, Brianne A., Bliss-Moreau, Eliza, Arlet, Malgorzata E., Atwill, Edward, McCowan, Brenda

“…Pandemics caused by pathogens that originate in wildlife highlight the importance of understanding the behavioral ecology of disease outbreaks at…”
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Network stability is a balancing act of personality, power, and conflict dynamics in rhesus macaque societies by McCowan, Brenda, Beisner, Brianne A, Capitanio, John P, Jackson, Megan E, Cameron, Ashley N, Seil, Shannon, Atwill, Edward R, Fushing, Hsieh

“…Stability in biological systems requires evolved mechanisms that promote robustness. Cohesive primate social groups represent one example of a stable…”
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Impact of individual demographic and social factors on human–wildlife interactions: a comparative study of three macaque species by Balasubramaniam, Krishna N., Marty, Pascal R., Samartino, Shelby, Sobrino, Alvaro, Gill, Taniya, Ismail, Mohammed, Saha, Rajarshi, Beisner, Brianne A., Kaburu, Stefano S. K., Bliss-Moreau, Eliza, Arlet, Malgorzata E., Ruppert, Nadine, Ismail, Ahmad, Sah, Shahrul Anuar Mohd, Mohan, Lalit, Rattan, Sandeep K., Kodandaramaiah, Ullasa, McCowan, Brenda

“…Despite increasing conflict at human–wildlife interfaces, there exists little research on how the attributes and behavior of individual wild animals may…”
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Joint modeling of multiple social networks to elucidate primate social dynamics: I. maximum entropy principle and network-based interactions by Chan, Stephanie, Fushing, Hsieh, Beisner, Brianne A, McCowan, Brenda

“…In a complex behavioral system, such as an animal society, the dynamics of the system as a whole represent the synergistic interaction among multiple aspects…”
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The influence of phylogeny, social style, and sociodemographic factors on macaque social network structure by Balasubramaniam, Krishna N., Beisner, Brianne A., Berman, Carol M., De Marco, Arianna, Duboscq, Julie, Koirala, Sabina, Majolo, Bonaventura, MacIntosh, Andrew J., McFarland, Richard, Molesti, Sandra, Ogawa, Hideshi, Petit, Odile, Schino, Gabriele, Sosa, Sebastian, Sueur, Cédric, Thierry, Bernard, de Waal, Frans B. M., McCowan, Brenda

“…Among nonhuman primates, the evolutionary underpinnings of variation in social structure remain debated, with both ancestral relationships and adaptation to…”
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Detection of social group instability among captive rhesus macaques using joint network modeling by Beisner, Brianne A, Jin, Jian, Fushing, Hsieh, Mccowan, Brenda

“…Social stability in group-living animals is an emergent property which arises from the interaction amongst multiple behavioral networks. However, pinpointing…”
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Detecting instability in animal social networks: genetic fragmentation is associated with social instability in rhesus macaques by Beisner, Brianne A, Jackson, Megan E, Cameron, Ashley N, McCowan, Brenda

“…The persistence of biological systems requires evolved mechanisms which promote stability. Cohesive primate social groups are one example of stable biological…”
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What you have, not who you know: food-enhanced social capital and changes in social behavioural relationships in a non-human primate by Blersch, Rosemary, Vandeleest, Jessica J, Nathman, Amy C, Pósfai, Márton, D'Souza, Raissa, McCowan, Brenda, Beisner, Brianne A

“…Social network position in non-human primates has far-reaching fitness consequences. Critically, social networks are both heterogeneous and dynamic, meaning an…”
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Decoupling social status and status certainty effects on health in macaques: a network approach by Vandeleest, Jessica J, Beisner, Brianne A, Hannibal, Darcy L, Nathman, Amy C, Capitanio, John P, Hsieh, Fushing, Atwill, Edward R, McCowan, Brenda

“…Although a wealth of literature points to the importance of social factors on health, a detailed understanding of the complex interplay between social and…”
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Human-wildlife conflict: Proximate predictors of aggression between humans and rhesus macaques in India by Beisner, Brianne A., Heagerty, Allison, Seil, Shannon K., Balasubramaniam, Krishna N., Atwill, Edward R., Gupta, Brij K., Tyagi, Praveen C., Chauhan, Netrapal P.S., Bonal, B.S., Sinha, P.R., McCowan, Brenda

“…ABSTRACT Macaques live in close contact with humans across South and Southeast Asia, and direct interaction is frequent. Aggressive contact is a concern in…”
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Social stability via management of natal males in captive rhesus macaques (Macaca mulatta) by Pritchard, Alexander J., Beisner, Brianne A., Nathman, Amy, McCowan, Brenda

“…Keystone individuals are expected to disproportionately contribute to group stability. For instance, rhesus macaques (Macaca mulatta) who police conflict…”
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Relationship between dominance hierarchy steepness and rank-relatedness of benefits in primates by Huang, Pengzhen, Arlet, Malgorzata E, Balasubramaniam, Krishna N, Beisner, Brianne A, Bliss-Moreau, Eliza, Brent, Lauren J N, Duboscq, Julie, García-Nisa, Iván, Kaburu, Stefano S K, Kendal, Rachel, Konečná, Martina, Marty, Pascal R, McCowan, Brenda, Micheletta, Jérôme, Ostner, Julia, Schülke, Oliver, Schino, Gabriele, Majolo, Bonaventura

“…Abstract In animal social groups, the extent to which individuals consistently win agonistic interactions and their ability to monopolize resources represent 2…”
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Implementing social network analysis to understand the socioecology of wildlife co‐occurrence and joint interactions with humans in anthropogenic environments by Balasubramaniam, Krishna N., Kaburu, Stefano S. K., Marty, Pascal R., Beisner, Brianne A., Bliss‐Moreau, Eliza, Arlet, Malgorzata E., Ruppert, Nadine, Ismail, Ahmad, Anuar Mohd Sah, Shahrul, Mohan, Lalith, Rattan, Sandeep, Kodandaramaiah, Ullasa, McCowan, Brenda

“…Human population expansion into wildlife habitats has increased interest in the behavioural ecology of human–wildlife interactions. To date, however, the…”
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High rates of aggression do not predict rates of trauma in captive groups of macaques by Beisner, Brianne A., Wooddell, Lauren J., Hannibal, Darcy L., Nathman, Amy, McCowan, Brenda

“…•Trauma is an undesirable consequence of group housing rhesus macaques.•We tested if social aggression rates predict rates of different types of…”
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Social power, conflict policing, and the role of subordination signals in rhesus macaque society by Beisner, Brianne A., Hannibal, Darcy L., Finn, Kelly R., Fushing, Hsieh, McCowan, Brenda

“…ABSTRACT Objectives Policing is a conflict‐limiting mechanism observed in many primate species. It is thought to require a skewed distribution of social power…”
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