Table 1.

Occurrence and features of male–male ritualized greeting behaviour in the genus Papio. Y, yes; N, no; n.a., information not available.

	ritualized greeting: occurrence and features
baboon species	occurrence	hourly ratea	main male initiator	physical contact	intense contact	completed/reciprocated	general tenor	context/function
chacma	Y [60]/N [52]	0.088 h−1 [60]/N [52]	n.a.	n.a.	n.a.	n.a.	n.a.	n.a.
Kinda	n.a.	n.a.	n.a.	n.a.	n.a.	n.a.	n.a.	n.a.
yellow	Y [71]	0.08 h−1 [71]	subordinate [71]	n.a.	n.a.	n.a.	tense, tentative [71]	submissive/signal status[71]
olive	Y [14]	1.20 h−1 [14]	dominant [14,72,73]	rare [14,72,73]	rare [14,72,73]	55% completed [14]	tense, tentative [14,72,73]	neutral/negotiation [14]
hamadryas	Y [8,87]	0.57 h−1 [87]	leader [87–89]	rare [82,87,91]	rare [82,87,91]	71.4% reciprocated[93]	tense [82,87,88]	competitive/tension buffering [8,87,88,91–93]
Guinea	Y [10,13]	2.06 h−1 [13]b	no rank effect [10]	93.4% [13]	59.2% [13]	99.7% completed [13] 81.9% reciprocated [13]	positive, relaxed [10,13]	neutral [10,13]/signal party membership[13], assess relationship quality [10,13]

^aRates refer to adult male greetings.

^bRates recalculated for adults from original values published in [13].