Antiphonal Responses to Loud Contact Calls Produced by Saguinus oedipus

Jordan, Kerry; Weiss, Daniel J.; Hauser, Marc D.; McMurray, Bob

doi:10.1023/b:ijop.0000019162.31244.88

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“…The ability of an individual to identify whether a call was emitted from a close associate or not may also affect the way the individual responds to a vocalization. In cotton top tamarins (Saguinus oedipus) for example, a series of playback experiments showed that cage mates could recognise each other's contact calls (Jordan et al 2004). Cage mates tended to respond to playbacks of each other's vocalizations faster than other colony members who were kept in other cages (Jordan et al 2004).…”

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Sex Differences in the Use of Whinny Vocalizations in Spider Monkeys (Ateles geoffroyi)

2015

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Section: Contact Callsmentioning

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Sex Differences in the Use of Whinny Vocalizations in Spider Monkeys (Ateles geoffroyi)

2015

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“…Antiphonal vocalizations with this function are reported in primate and bird species, e.g. cotton‐top tamarins ( Saguinus oedipus ; Jordan et al. 2004) and black‐capped chickadees ( Parus atricapillus ; Nowicki 1983).…”

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“…Antiphonal vocalizations with this function are reported in primate and bird species, e.g. cotton-top tamarins (Saguinus oedipus; Jordan et al 2004) and black-capped chickadees (Parus atricapillus; Nowicki 1983). According to the stranger-detector hypothesis, acoustic properties of SC would be similar within a colony, while they would differ among colonies.…”

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Antiphonal Vocalization of a Subterranean Rodent, the Naked Mole‐Rat (Heterocephalus glaber)

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Acoustic signalling is one of the most common communication mediums in a broad range of social animals, and it often encodes attributes of the signaller such as sex, kin relatedness and dominance rank. Particularly, antiphonal vocalization has been regarded to have an important function in animals living in an environment where visual cues are unreliable. Antiphony enables to acknowledge that one's signal was received with certainty. We show the first evidence of such acoustic signals among rodents: the naked mole‐rat. The society of this eusocial subterranean species is organized hierarchically according to body size. Naked mole‐rats are functionally blind, and rely highly on acoustic communication. We focused on one of their vocalizations: the soft chirp (SC). SCs are the most frequent sounds, and are often emitted upon physical contact. We expected the SC to be antiphonal, and if so, SC may function to distinguish colony members from intruders, and/or identify social rank and individuality. To examine our predictions, we placed pairs of individuals of different size together, and recorded their vocal behaviour. The intervals between the SCs of two individuals were shorter than expected intervals which were based on the assumption that animals vocalized without reference of the preceding SC. The acoustic properties of SCs varied among individuals according to body weight and colony of origin. The emission rate was positively related to the relative difference in body weight. Therefore, SCs have an antiphonal nature and may function as expected. These characteristics of SC were highly similar to those of antiphonal sounds in other social species.

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“…Jordan et al. (), analyzing whether Saguinus oedipus responded to isolation calls from members of different groups, noted that most individuals did not respond vocally to the contact call. The authors associated this response with the evaluation of the potential risk of warning predators and putting the sender in danger.…”

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The Function of Click Call Emission in Capybaras (Hydrochoerus hydrochaeris)

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Contact calls are used to promote cohesion among individuals that live in social groups. Capybaras are very gregarious and often vocalize. This species emits a vocalization known as a click, which has been observed during aggregating and foraging behaviors, suggesting contact or monitoring call function. We carried out a playback experiment to evaluate behavioral responses to the capybara's click call and to a bird call, used as control in ten capybaras. We compared animals' latency to respond to stimuli, the time spent in behavioral patterns, alertness, head orientation toward the sound source, and approach to the sound source. All capybaras responded to the emission of the click call playback. Most of them assumed an alert position, showed head orientation toward the sound source, and approached the sound source. They promptly reacted to the first click call emission, while few reacted to the first bird call emission, used as control. All subjects showed behavioral changes after the second emission of the click call, and some responded to the third emission. Just three individuals answered after the first control emission, while none of them responded to the second and third emission of the playback. Therefore, click call playback promotes prompt behavioral changes in capybaras, including approach to the sound source. These results indicate that this vocalization functions as a contact or monitoring call in the species.

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Antiphonal Responses to Loud Contact Calls Produced by Saguinus oedipus

Abstract: We report the results of an experiment designed to investigate whether captive cotton-top tamarins (Saguinus

Cited by 13 publications

References 15 publications

Sex Differences in the Use of Whinny Vocalizations in Spider Monkeys (Ateles geoffroyi)

Sex Differences in the Use of Whinny Vocalizations in Spider Monkeys (Ateles geoffroyi)

Antiphonal Vocalization of a Subterranean Rodent, the Naked Mole‐Rat (Heterocephalus glaber)

The Function of Click Call Emission in Capybaras (Hydrochoerus hydrochaeris)

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