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Frequencies of five agonistic behaviors were recorded in a captive group (n = 11) of pigtail macaques (Macaca nemestrina) at the Chicago Zoological Park (Brookfield Zoo). The data were used to construct rank orders according to three procedures. One of the procedures considered dyadic factors in assigning ranks, the other procedures did not. The first procedure was found to be the most reliable and to predict the results of the second and third procedures better than they predicted themselves. Furthermore, inclusion of data from infant monkeys produced serious distortions in the two nondyadic procedures, but not in the dyadic one.
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Financial support for this project was provided by the Brookfield Zoo and the M. M. Schmidt Foundation. We thank Dr. B. Beck for advice and guidance during the conduct of this project.
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Rayor, L.S., Chiszar, D. Comparability of dominance indices in captive pigtail macaques (Macaca nemestrina). Bull. Psychon. Soc. 12, 468–470 (1978). https://doi.org/10.3758/BF03329739
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.3758/BF03329739