Abstract Social relationships and environmental disturbances both shape health and survival, yet the immune processes linking sociality to health remain poorly understood, particularly in populations experiencing ecological disruption. Here, we examine how social relationships, demographic factors and environmental disturbance relate to variation in white blood cell (leukocyte) composition in free-ranging rhesus macaques (Macaca mulatta). First, we tested whether relationship quality (weak and s
Relationship quality, sex and hurricane exposure predict white blood cell counts in a free-ranging primate population
Melissa A. Pavez-Fox·Lauren J. N. Brent·Robert M. Seyfarth·André S. Pereira·Marianne Barrier·Angelina Ruiz-Lambides·James P. Higham·Julie E. Horvath·Daniel Phillips·Josué Negron-Del Valle
