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- Title
Young-boy networks without kin clusters in a lek-mating manakin.
- Authors
McDonald, David B.
- Abstract
I use 10 years of data from a long-term study of lek-mating long-tailed manakins to relate the social network among males to their spatial and genetic structure. Previously, I showed that the network connectivity of young males predicts their future success. Here, I ask whether kinship might shape the organization of this “young-boy network”. Not surprisingly, males that were more socially distant (linked by longer network paths) were affiliated with perch zones (lek arenas) that were further apart. Relatedness ( r) among males within the network decreased as social distance increased, as might be expected under kin selection. Nevertheless, any role for indirect inclusive fitness benefits is refuted by the slightly negative mean relatedness among males at all social distances within the network (overall mean r = −0.06). That is, relatedness ranged from slightly negative (−0.04) to more negative (−0.2). In contrast, relatedness in dyads for which at least one of the males was outside the social network (involving at least one blood-sampled male not documented to have interacted with other banded males) was slightly above the random expectation (mean r = 0.05). The slight variations around r = 0 among males of different categories likely reflect dispersal dynamics, rather than any influence of kinship on social organization. Relatedness did not covary with the age difference between males. These results, together with previous results for lack of relatedness between alpha and beta male partners, refute any role for kin selection in the evolution of cooperative display in this lek-mating system.
- Subjects
ANIMAL behavior; ANIMAL social behavior; SOCIAL networks; SOCIAL interaction; ANIMAL societies; KINSHIP; KIN selection (Evolution); RELATEDNESS (Psychology); MANAKINS (Birds)
- Publication
Behavioral Ecology & Sociobiology, 2009, Vol 63, Issue 7, p1029
- ISSN
0340-5443
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1007/s00265-009-0722-9