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The longitudinal survivorship of a group of free-ranging male and female rhesus monkeys from La Parguera, Puerto Rico, was analyzed. Males had lower age-specific survivorship than females. There were no differences in the survivorship of daughters of high- and low-ranking mothers and there was no correlation between total number of offspring born and maternal rank for females. However, the sons of low-ranking mothers had lower survivorship than the sons of high-ranking females. This sex-related difference in survivorship, in conjunction with other evidence, indicates that the average lifetime reproduction of sons of low-ranking females is lower than that of daughters and vice versa for offspring of high-ranking females.
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Meikle, D.B., Vessey, S.H. Maternal dominance rank and lifetime survivorship of male and female rhesus monkeys. Behav Ecol Sociobiol 22, 379–383 (1988). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00294974
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