Primate Social Groups
Living in a society where monogamy is the most accepted and practiced form of relationships I had never considered that primates practice any specific relationships let alone more than one. Through research I have found that there are actually six different types of social groups that exist among primates. Those six groups are polygynous, polyandrous, multimale and multifemale, all male, monogamous, and solitary. All six of these primate societies can be found being practiced among primates today, as well as in the history of these creatures. While humans mostly stick to monogamy I found during my research how each of these primate social groups could also be compared and found in our human society. The first social group I looked at was that of polygynous which consists of one male and several females. The male is at the reproductive stage in his life, the females in this group are mature and their children who have not yet matured will also be included in this group being a mixture of male and female. The polygynous term is given to the mature primates the children of these primates being apart of the group but not involved in why the term is placed with the group. Some primates seen in this residence pattern are langurs, howler monkeys, and Old World Monkeys such as the gelada baboons. (Clark Spenser …show more content…
Initially going into this topic I felt that only monogamous relationships would be comparable to humans but in today’s society I could find a way to tie each group to us which made this topic that much more interesting. The six groups pretty much cover each situation that could be found in nature and I find it interesting that there are primates that fall into each group. I originally thought that the primates would only fall into a few of the groups but to my surprise each group had at least one species that fell into
Living in a society where monogamy is the most accepted and practiced form of relationships I had never considered that primates practice any specific relationships let alone more than one. Through research I have found that there are actually six different types of social groups that exist among primates. Those six groups are polygynous, polyandrous, multimale and multifemale, all male, monogamous, and solitary. All six of these primate societies can be found being practiced among primates today, as well as in the history of these creatures. While humans mostly stick to monogamy I found during my research how each of these primate social groups could also be compared and found in our human society. The first social group I looked at was that of polygynous which consists of one male and several females. The male is at the reproductive stage in his life, the females in this group are mature and their children who have not yet matured will also be included in this group being a mixture of male and female. The polygynous term is given to the mature primates the children of these primates being apart of the group but not involved in why the term is placed with the group. Some primates seen in this residence pattern are langurs, howler monkeys, and Old World Monkeys such as the gelada baboons. (Clark Spenser …show more content…
Initially going into this topic I felt that only monogamous relationships would be comparable to humans but in today’s society I could find a way to tie each group to us which made this topic that much more interesting. The six groups pretty much cover each situation that could be found in nature and I find it interesting that there are primates that fall into each group. I originally thought that the primates would only fall into a few of the groups but to my surprise each group had at least one species that fell into