SOCIAL AND SEXUAL-BEHAVIOR, AND COGNITIVE STRATEGIES OF NON HUMAN PRIMATES

The present paper is a survey of the 15 years of research performed by the team of the Department of Ethology of the Mexican institute of Ps ychiatry. Our main purpose has been to understand the underlying of so me of the physiological and cognitive mechanisms of spontaneous animal communication, social and non-social behavior. An ethological approac h has been favoured, as the conceptual and methodological backgrounds of this discipline allow us to understand behavior from an evolutionar y as well as an adaptative view.