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Interactions of seven infant stumptail macaques with aunts and immatures were observed during the infants' first 60 days of life in colony groups. Data were collected using 14 interaction categories, including typical maternal behaviors, play, and five categories of momentary touching. Aunts and immatures rarely engaged in maternal behaviors such as clinging, carrying, or retrieving. Both aunts and immatures were recorded momentarily touching the infants; aunts groomed them and immatures began playing with them during the second month. Such play was primarily between age-mates and rarely between infants and yearlings. Adult males engaged in more maternal behavior than aunts during the infants' first two months of life.
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Rhine, R.J., Hendy-Neely, H. Social development of stumptail macaques (Macaca arctoides): Momentary touching, play, and other interactions with aunts and immatures during the infants' first 60 days of life. Primates 19, 115–123 (1978). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02373229
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