Conceptual Archaeology of a Temporal Place: Albert and Kessler (1976) Applied to Chacma Baboons (Papio ursinus)
- 1 Primate Models for Behavioural Evolution, Institute of Human Sciences, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom
- 2 Gorongosa National Park, Beira, Mozambique
- 3 Interdisciplinary Centre for Archaeology and Evolution of Human Behaviour, Universidade do Algarve, Faro, Portugal
Abstract
Although leave-taking in non-human species has been preliminarily investigated in a few species, the mechanisms driving encounter ends remain unstudied. In 1976 Albert and Kessler published a landmark paper, outlining theories about what drives social encounter ends and providing a framework of internal and external motivations leading to separation. This framework has been underused in aiding our understanding of how proximate mechanisms for separation drive leave-taking and offers a valuable opportunity to better understand how separation and behavior relate to one another. Having previously identified leave-taking in wild chacma baboons (Papio ursinus), in the current paper, we apply this framework to their leave-taking to better understand how the motivations to leave impact leave-taking. Using GLMMs with binomial error structure, our results suggest that internal motivations to end interactions are better predictors of orientation-shifting behavior when compared to external motivations. We argue that these results validate the use of Albert and Kessler's framework across species and suggest that leave-taking may have evolved to signal internal drivers of interaction ends, a behavior that has become elaborated in human behavior.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.3844/jssp.2024.1.11
Copyright: © 2024 Lucy Baehren and Susana Carvalho. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
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Keywords
- Leave-Taking
- Interaction
- Baboon
- Separation
- Evolution