Female Strategies

Question 1

Under what conditions do females compete for males?

Answer 1

When males provide a valuable resource or service, such as protection or food access

Question 2

What evidence supports the link between food and female reproductive success?

Answer 2

1. Provisioned colonies: higher reproductive output
2. Amenorrhea in low body fat females

Question 3

3 key variables affecting female feeding behavior

Answer 3

Food quality, spatial distribution, temporal availability

Question 4

2 types of food competition in females

Answer 4

Scramble(non-aggressive) and Contest(aggressive)

Question 5

2 continuums of female social relationships

Answer 5

1. Egalitarian-Nepotistic (is there a dominance hierarchy)
   2.Depostic-Tolerant(Rigidity of the hierarchy)

Question 6

Dispersal-Egalitarian relationship

Answer 6

*within-group competition: LOW
*Between-group competition: LOW
*no dominance hierarchy

Question 7

Resident-Egalitarian relationships

Answer 7

*Within-group competition: LOW
*Between-group competition: HIGH
*No dominance hierarchy

Question 8

Resident-Nepotistic relationships

Answer 8

*Within-group competition = HIGH
*Between-group competition = LOW
*Dominance hierarchy based on kinship

Question 9

Resident-Nepotistic-tolerant

Answer 9

*Within-group competition = HIGH
*Between-group competition = HIGH
*Reversals may occur

Question 10

What is a matrilineal hierarchy

Answer 10

*Daughters inherit their mother’s rank
*rank based on birth order
*sons leave the group

Question 11

What is the Priority of Access Model

Answer 11

higher-ranked females should have greater RS