Do Females Turn Males on and off in Barnacle Goose Social Display?

Hausberger, Martine; Black, Jeffrey M.

doi:10.1111/j.1439-0310.1990.tb00799.x

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“…Some species like the European starling and the pale-winged starling show both song styles, reflecting the different contexts of interaction. Other species may also show this relationship between the temporal features of an interaction and the arousal states of the interactants: in barnacle geese Branta leucopsis triumph ceremonies, females that “encourage and support” their mate in the interaction will first alternate calling but with an increasing tempo and then overlap and chorus as excitation increases (Hausberger and Black, 1990 ) while those that do not support their partner (older pairs) produce other soft types of calls without any temporal synchronization (Bigot et al, 1995 ). According to Hauser ( 1992 ), the timing of calling in macaques may be altered in such a way that it is used by individuals to manipulate or facilitate social relationships.…”

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Social coordination in animal vocal interactions. Is there any evidence of turn-taking? The starling as an animal model

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Turn-taking in conversation appears to be a common feature in various human cultures and this universality raises questions about its biological basis and evolutionary trajectory. Functional convergence is a widespread phenomenon in evolution, revealing sometimes striking functional similarities between very distant species even though the mechanisms involved may be different. Studies on mammals (including non-human primates) and bird species with different levels of social coordination reveal that temporal and structural regularities in vocal interactions may depend on the species' social structure. Here we test the hypothesis that turn-taking and associated rules of conversations may be an adaptive response to the requirements of social life, by testing the applicability of turn-taking rules to an animal model, the European starling. Birdsong has for many decades been considered as one of the best models of human language and starling songs have been well described in terms of vocal production and perception. Starlings do have vocal interactions where alternating patterns predominate. Observational and experimental data on vocal interactions reveal that (1) there are indeed clear temporal and structural regularities, (2) the temporal and structural patterning is influenced by the immediate social context, the general social situation, the individual history, and the internal state of the emitter. Comparison of phylogenetically close species of Sturnids reveals that the alternating pattern of vocal interactions varies greatly according to the species' social structure, suggesting that interactional regularities may have evolved together with social systems. These findings lead to solid bases of discussion on the evolution of communication rules in relation to social evolution. They will be discussed also in terms of processes, at the light of recent neurobiological findings.

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“…investment in current reproductive success versus future reproductive success) will match with their partner. Barnacle geese have age‐related mate access and high mate fidelity, and have been found to pair assortatively for age (Black and Owen 1995) and even social display (Hausberger and Black 1990). Our findings show strong assortment in behaviour, although it is unclear whether this effect emerges through mate choice.…”

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“…Finally, similarity of the trait under study could be a by‐product of mate preference or restricted mate access. Hausberger and Black (1990) found the display duration of male barnacle geese during pair formation to be longer when the reaction of the females was more intense. A correspondence between social display and defence behaviour could perhaps explain the similarity of defence intensity in barnacle goose pairs, but this is yet to be explored.…”

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“…However, females showed plastic adjustments of this behaviour as they decreased their FID both over the season and across years (de Jong et al 2021). Barnacle geese mate assortatively with regard to life‐history traits, such as age and size (Choudhury et al 1992, 1996, Black and Owen 1995), and social display during mate choice (Hausberger and Black 1990). Additionally, barnacle geese form pair bonds with familiar individuals from the same breeding area more often than with unfamiliar individuals (Choudhury and Black 1994), and choose their mate by sampling each individual and comparing it to the previously sampled mate (Choudhury and Black 1993).…”

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Nest defence behaviour is similar between pair members but only male behaviour predicts nest survival in barnacle geese

Speelman

Hammers

Komdeur

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Journal of Avian Biology

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Behavioural patterns often differ consistently across individuals and are linked to fitness. In species with biparental care, the defence behaviour of both parents can affect reproductive success through offspring survival. In addition to the intensity of defence behaviour by both pair members, the similarity in this behaviour among parents may affect offspring survival. However, few studies have investigated the relative impact of both the intensity and similarity of defence behaviour. Here, we examined nest defence behaviour of males and females during the incubation stage in an Arctic population of barnacle geese Branta leucopsis. We calculated the repeatability of defence behaviour to test whether this behaviour is consistent within individuals and investigated how it is associated with age. In addition, we investigated how daily survival rate (DSR) of the nests until hatching is associated with nest defence behaviour and age of the parents, as well as the effect of parent similarity in nest defence behaviour as an emergent trait of the pair bond. Both male and female defence behaviour were highly repeatable. The ages of both partners within breeding pairs were positively related, but age was only significantly associated with defence behaviour in females. Further, we found high similarity in defence behaviour within breeding pairs, but the similarity and intensity of defence behaviour within breeding pairs did not predict DSR. Finally, male defence behaviour positively predicted DSR, but female defence behaviour and male and female age did not. Our results suggest that nest protection is adaptive in males but behavioural similarity of pair members does not enhance nest survival, indicating behavioural similarity itself is not adaptive but rather a by-product of different effects.

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“…Some species like the European starling and the pale-winged starling show both song styles, reflecting the different contexts of interaction. Other species may also show this relationship between the temporal features of an interaction and the arousal states of the interactants: in barnacle geese Branta leucopsis triumph ceremonies, females that "encourage and support" their mate in the interaction will first alternate calling but with an increasing tempo and then overlap and chorus as excitation increases (Hausberger and Black, 1990) while those that do not support their partner (older pairs) produce other soft types of calls without any temporal synchronization (Bigot et al, 1995). According to Hauser (1992), the timing of calling in macaques may be altered in such a way that it is used by individuals to manipulate or facilitate social relationships.…”

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Turn-Taking in Human Communicative Interaction

Holler

Kendrick

Casillas

et al. 2016

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The core use of language is in face-to-face conversation. This is characterized by rapid turn-taking. This turn-taking poses a number central puzzles for the psychology of language. Consider, for example, that in large corpora the gap between turns is on the order of 100 to 300 ms, but the latencies involved in language production require minimally between 600ms (for a single word) or 1500 ms (for as simple sentence). This implies that participants in conversation are predicting the ends of the incoming turn and preparing in advance. But how is this done? What aspects of this prediction are done when? What happens when the prediction is wrong? What stops participants coming in too early? If the system is running on prediction, why is there consistently a mode of 100 to 300 ms in response time? The timing puzzle raises further puzzles: it seems that comprehension must run parallel with the preparation for production, but it has been presumed that there are strict cognitive limitations on more than one central process running at a time. How is this bottleneck overcome? Far from being 'easy' as some psychologists have suggested, conversation may be one of the most demanding cognitive tasks in our everyday lives. Further questions naturally arise: how do children learn to master this demanding task, and what is the developmental trajectory in this domain? Research shows that aspects of turn-taking such as its timing are remarkably stable across languages and cultures, but the word order of languages varies enormously. How then does prediction of the incoming turn work when the verb (often the informational nugget in a clause) is at the end? Conversely, how can production work fast enough in languages that have the verb at the beginning, thereby requiring early planning of the whole clause? What happens when one changes modality, as in sign languages -- with the loss of channel constraints is turn-taking much freer? And what about face-to-face communication amongst hearing individuals -- do gestures, gaze, and other body behaviors facilitate turn-taking? One can also ask the phylogenetic question: how did such a system evolve? There seem to be parallels (analogies) in duetting bird species, and in a variety of monkey species, but there is little evidence of anything like this among the great apes. All this constitutes a neglected set of problems at the heart of the psychology of language and of the language sciences. This research topic welcomes contributions from right across the board, for example from psycholinguists, developmental psychologists, students of dialogue and conversation analysis, linguists interested in the use of language, phoneticians, corpus analysts and comparative ethologists or psychologists. We welcome contributions of all sorts, for example original research papers, opinion pieces, and reviews of work in subfields that may not be fully understood in other subfields

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Do Females Turn Males on and off in Barnacle Goose Social Display?

Cited by 14 publications

References 16 publications

Social coordination in animal vocal interactions. Is there any evidence of turn-taking? The starling as an animal model

Social coordination in animal vocal interactions. Is there any evidence of turn-taking? The starling as an animal model

Nest defence behaviour is similar between pair members but only male behaviour predicts nest survival in barnacle geese

Turn-Taking in Human Communicative Interaction

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