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The cost of living in larger primate groups includes higher fly densities
- Flies are implicated in carrying and mechanically transmitting many primate pathogens. We investigated how fly associations vary across six monkey species (Cercopithecus ascanius, Cercopithecus mitis, Colobus guereza, Lophocebus albigena, Papio anubis, and Piliocolobus tephrosceles) and whether monkey group size impacts fly densities. Fly densities were generally higher inside groups than outside them, and considering data from these primate species together revealed that larger groups harbored more flies. Within species, this pattern was strongest for colobine monkeys, and we speculate this might be due to their smaller home ranges, suggesting that movement patterns may influence fly–primate associations. Fly associations increase with group sizes and may thus represent a cost to sociality.
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| Author: | Jan F. Gogarten, Mueena Jahan, Sébastien Calvignac-Spencer, Colin A. Chapman, Tony L. Goldberg, Fabian H. Leendertz, Jessica M. Rothman |
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| URN: | urn:nbn:de:gbv:9-opus-107335 |
| DOI: | https://doi.org/10.1007/s10393-022-01597-5 |
| ISSN: | 1612-9210 |
| Parent Title (English): | EcoHealth |
| Publisher: | Springer Nature |
| Place of publication: | Berlin |
| Document Type: | Article |
| Language: | English |
| Date of first Publication: | 2022/06/04 |
| Release Date: | 2024/02/23 |
| Tag: | disease risk; disease vector; non-human primates; sociality and health |
| Volume: | 19 |
| Issue: | 2 |
| First Page: | 290 |
| Last Page: | 298 |
| Faculties: | Mathematisch-Naturwissenschaftliche Fakultät / Zoologisches Institut und Museum |
| Collections: | weitere DFG-förderfähige Artikel |
| Licence (German): |  Creative Commons - Namensnennung 4.0 International |