Posted: Mar 11, 2016 3:13 pm
OK. I was speaking about it because the article mentioned that it could be the reason for the rock throwing and placing behavior.DavidMcC wrote:Piper, I did not claim that all chimp calls require audience, only that the kind of call you were talking of (the dominance display) required an audience.
I don't know anything about chimp behavior, at all, which is why I said I don't want to speculate any further. But here I go.
If dominance displays are only produced by an alpha male, then how would the alpha be replaced when he dies? The runner-ups would only do the displays after becoming alpha-male? What do you mean by rivals, rivals in the same group or neighboring ones?
DavidMcC wrote:This discussion has become confused. I am fairly confident that territorial displays are only performed by alpha males (maybe also rivals). Therefore, the likely response of such a chimp to any other displays/banging noises would be to investigate it rather than run away.
Not if the one hearing the display is not an alpha male though. Why would it only be another alpha male that hears the banging?
wouldn't the alpha male direct dominance displays to it's own group to keep them in line, as well as any outsiders, alpha male or not?