Alternative Mechanisms of Social Organization in Monkeys

Rowell, T. E.; Olson, Dana K.

doi:10.1163/156853983x00552

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“…Therefore, remaining close and behaviorally neutral (not affiliative and not agonistic) may be sufficient to clearly indicate the cessation of a conflict and the conflict participants' intent to not engage in further conflict at the present time (DE WAAL & YOSHIHARA, 1983). ROWELL and OLSON (1983) suggested that a change in spatial position communicated a change in social relationship. Close proximity may allow a conflict partner to monitor their opponents' movements and adjust their position accordingly.…”

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Conflict and post-conflict behavior in a small group of chimpanzees

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ABSTRACT. Chimpanzee research plays a central role in the discussions of conflict negotiation. Reconciliation, or the attraction and affiliation of former opponents following conflict, has been proposed as a central element of conflict negotiation in chimpanzees and various other taxa. In an attempt to expand the database of chimpanzee conflict resolution, conflict and post-conflict behavior were recorded for a small group of socially housed chimpanzees at the Chimpanzee and Human Communication Institute, at Central Washington University, Data were collected over six 6-week periods between 1997 and 2000, for a total of 840 hours of observation, resulting in a substantial post-conflict (PC) and matched control (MC) data set. The data demonstrate this group's tendencies to maintain visual contact and closer proximity after conflicts. Dyadic corrected conciliatory tendencies ranged between 0 -37.5% and averaged 17.25% across all dyads. Individual corrected conciliatory tendencies ranged between 5.8 and 32%. The results of this study combined with recent publications on captive and free-ranging chimpanzee post-conflict behavior suggest that variation in post-conflict behavior may be important to our understanding of chimpanzee conflict negotiation, and may also have implications for the design and management of captive chimpanzee enclosures and social groups, respectively.

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Conflict and post-conflict behavior in a small group of chimpanzees

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“…Unlike savannah-dwelling primates, forest guenons are often out of sight from each other. Social interactions are much less common because they spend more effort monitoring each other's behaviour and adjusting their own spatial position accordingly (Rowell and Olson 1983;Rowell 1988). Instead, guenons typically emit social calls to overcome the constraints of poor visibility in the forest and maintain group cohesion (e.g.…”

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Context-related call combinations in female Diana monkeys

2011

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Non-human primates possess species-specific repertoires of acoustically distinct call types that can be found in adults in predictable ways. Evidence for vocal flexibility is generally rare and typically restricted to acoustic variants within the main call types or sequential production of multiple calls. So far, evidence for context-specific call sequences has been mainly in relation to external disturbances, particularly predation. In this study, we investigated extensively the vocal behaviour of free-ranging and individually identified Diana monkeys in non-predatory contexts. We found that adult females produced four vocal structures alone ('H', 'L', 'R' and 'A' calls, the latter consisting of two subtypes) or combined in non-random ways ('HA', 'LA' and 'RA' call combinations) in relation to ongoing behaviour or external events. Specifically, the concatenation of an introductory call with the most frequently emitted and contextually neutral 'A' call seems to function as a contextual refiner of this potential individual identifier. Our results demonstrate that some non-human primates are able to increase the effective size of their small vocal repertoire not only by varying the acoustic structure of basic call types but also by combining them into more complex structures. We have demonstrated this phenomenon for a category of vocalisations with a purely social function and discuss the implications of these findings for evolutionary theories of primate vocal communication.

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“…and social interchange. As a consequence, status is communicated with a combination of social gestures, postures and vocalizations in addition to attending visually to others (see Rowell and Olson, 1983;Johnson and Karin-D'Arcy, 2006). In A. burtoni, however, relatedness and age do not appear to play a role in the status hierarchy, which is quite fluid and depends on the ongoing aggressive encounters.…”

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Cognitive skills and the evolution of social systems

Fernald

2017

Journal of Experimental Biology

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How do animal social skills influence evolution? Complex animal social behaviors require many cognitive skills including individual recognition and observational learning. For social systems to evolve, these abilities need to be transmitted genetically or culturally and supported by the evolution of underlying neural systems. Because animal skill sets are so varied, it seems best to describe animal cognitive behaviors as being a social calculus that can change with experience, which has evolved to match and facilitate the complexity of the social system where it arose. That is, acquiring and using social information in response to a rapidly changing complex world leads to social competence enabling success in essential behavioral interactions. Here, we describe the remarkable suite of social skills discovered in the African cichlid fish Astatotilapia burtoni, including an attention hierarchy, male deception, transitive inference, the mechanistic bases of social dominance, female mate choice and the neural control of female reproductive behavior. The social calculus of this species is presented as an example of a potential causal factor in the evolution of sophisticated social behavior necessary for the evolutionary success of their social system.

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Alternative Mechanisms of Social Organization in Monkeys

Cited by 104 publications

References 15 publications

Conflict and post-conflict behavior in a small group of chimpanzees

Conflict and post-conflict behavior in a small group of chimpanzees

Context-related call combinations in female Diana monkeys

Cognitive skills and the evolution of social systems

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