A cry for help: female distress calling during copulation is context dependent

Løvlie, Hanne; Zidar, Josefina; Berneheim, Christina

doi:10.1016/j.anbehav.2014.04.002

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“…This would seem to increase the potential for detection by other males that may then approach the female and increase her prospects for choice. Similarly, female copulation calls-produced by females during copulation-seem to function to attract other males that may supplant the one currently copulating with the female (e.g., Løvlie et al 2014). …”

Section: Females Signal To Attract More Potential Mates and Broaden Tmentioning

confidence: 98%

Mating Is a Give-and-Take of Influence and Communication Between the Sexes

Rodrı́guez

2015

Cryptic Female Choice in Arthropods

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Section: Females Signal To Attract More Potential Mates and Broaden Tmentioning

confidence: 98%

Mating Is a Give-and-Take of Influence and Communication Between the Sexes

Rodrı́guez

2015

Cryptic Female Choice in Arthropods

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“…Dominant males often enjoy higher paternity than subdominant males (reviewed by [ 6 , 47 ]), most likely because they, to some extent successfully, aim to monopolise access to females, re-mate more often with females, and are preferred by females. This female preference for dominant males is shown both directly (reviewed by [ 6 , 47 ]), and indirectly [ 47 , 59 , 60 ]. An example of the latter is that females distress call during copulation by low-ranking (i.e., non-preferred males) [ 60 ].…”

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Sophisticated Fowl: The Complex Behaviour and Cognitive Skills of Chickens and Red Junglefowl

Garnham

Løvlie

2018

Behavioral Sciences

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The world’s most numerous bird, the domestic chicken, and their wild ancestor, the red junglefowl, have long been used as model species for animal behaviour research. Recently, this research has advanced our understanding of the social behaviour, personality, and cognition of fowl, and demonstrated their sophisticated behaviour and cognitive skills. Here, we overview some of this research, starting with describing research investigating the well-developed senses of fowl, before presenting how socially and cognitively complex they can be. The realisation that domestic chickens, our most abundant production animal, are behaviourally and cognitively sophisticated should encourage an increase in general appraise and fascination towards them. In turn, this should inspire increased use of them as both research and hobby animals, as well as improvements in their unfortunately often poor welfare.

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“…At first glance, this behavior may seem like a simple expression of pain without a specific adaptive function, but empirical studies across animal taxa have indicated that this behavior may be an adaptive trait that has undergone evolutionary change through natural selection (e.g., Staton 1978;Perrone 1980;Högstedt 1983;GreigSmith 1984;Hödl and Gollmann 1986;Laiolo et al 2004Laiolo et al , 2007Russ et al 2004;Lingle et al 2007a;Blumstein et al 2008;Manno 2012;Hoare and Labra 2013;Løvlie et al 2014;Sepp et al 2014). Several hypotheses that are not mutually exclusive have been proposed to explain the adaptive function of screaming across animal taxa.…”

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Habitats matter: the incidence of and response to fear screams in a habitat generalist, the vinous-throated parrotbill Paradoxornis webbianus

Lee

Noh

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Behav Ecol Sociobiol

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A fear scream is a specific vocalization produced by many animal taxa including humans when confronted with an immediate threat of death. We studied population variation in the incidence of fear screams and its correlation with habitat type using a habitat generalist bird species, the vinousthroated parrotbill (Paradoxornis webbianus). Playback experiments were also conducted to determine how conspecifics respond to scream calls in this species. Overall, about 21 % of parrotbills consistently produced fear screams while being handled. Neither morphological traits nor flock size was related to screaming tendency, but females tended to scream more than males. The propensity to scream also differed significantly between geographic groups, and, interestingly, this difference was closely related to habitat type; parrotbills in closed habitats such as reedbeds or mountain forests screamed more frequently than those in open habitats. Playback experiments showed that fear screams successfully elicited rapid vocal and behavioral responses from conspecifics. Consistent with the attraction hypothesis, our study suggests that fear screams may function to gather both conspecifics and other species around the caller, which may directly or indirectly disturb the predator, thus giving the caller a chance to escape. The benefits of screaming may be influenced by environmental (e.g., habitat type) and biological (e.g., body mass) factors, which may ultimately account for the variability in propensity for screaming within and between species.

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A cry for help: female distress calling during copulation is context dependent

Abstract: Owing to selection for increased mating propensity, males often expose females to sexual harassment. Consequently, females may evolve counterstrategies to retain control of mating.

Cited by 13 publications

References 48 publications

Mating Is a Give-and-Take of Influence and Communication Between the Sexes

Mating Is a Give-and-Take of Influence and Communication Between the Sexes

Sophisticated Fowl: The Complex Behaviour and Cognitive Skills of Chickens and Red Junglefowl

Habitats matter: the incidence of and response to fear screams in a habitat generalist, the vinous-throated parrotbill Paradoxornis webbianus

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