{"pk":5107,"title":"Mutual Behavioral Adaptation of Partners in Dyads in Two Species of Prosimians","subtitle":null,"abstract":"The dynamics of mutual behavioural adaptation in the process of establishing social relationships in mouse lemurs (Microcebs murinus) and pygmy slow lorises (Nycticebus pygmaeus) was studied. Observations were made over a 3-hour period beginning when a male and a female were first placed together during the non breeding season. As well, the behaviour of stable pairs that had been together for more than one year was observed. Behaviour was recorded using the one/zero method with 5-sec intervals. Two stages of the development of social relationships, each with different functional values, were identified. The first stage involved mutual social investigation, the second the stabilization of the social relationship. Differences in the dynamics of social contacts between species members were due to their different social structures. The process of social adaptation of behaviour in dyads is discussed and quantitative and qualitative characteristics of breeding pairs and non breeding pairs are compared. It is suggested that a convenie nt strategy for improving breeding is to replace one of the partners with an experienced animal.","language":"en","license":{"name":"Creative Commons Attribution 4.0","short_name":"CC BY 4.0","text":"Attribution — You must give appropriate credit, provide a link to the license, and indicate if changes were made. You may do so in any reasonable manner, but not in any way that suggests the licensor endorses you or your use.\r\n\r\nNo additional restrictions — You may not apply legal terms or technological measures that legally restrict others from doing anything the license permits.","url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0"},"keywords":[{"word":"International Journal of Comparative Psychology"},{"word":"Behavior"},{"word":"Behaviour"},{"word":"Behavioral Taxonomy"},{"word":"learning"},{"word":"cognition"},{"word":"Cognitive Processes"},{"word":"Conditioning"},{"word":"Mutual"},{"word":"Behavioral"},{"word":"adaptation"},{"word":"Partner"},{"word":"Dyad"},{"word":"species"},{"word":"Prosimian"}],"section":"Research Article","is_remote":true,"remote_url":"https://escholarship.org/uc/item/9h9404zr","frozenauthors":[{"first_name":"V","middle_name":"A","last_name":"Meshik","name_suffix":"","institution":"","department":"None"}],"date_submitted":"2012-11-09T18:51:40Z","date_accepted":"2012-11-09T18:51:40Z","date_published":"2012-11-09T18:51:52Z","render_galley":null,"galleys":[{"label":"","type":"","path":"https://journalpub.escholarship.org/uclapsych_ijcp/article/5107/galley/2986/download/"}]}