Foraging ecology and use of space in wild golden lion tamarins (Leontopithecus rosalia)

Dietz, James M.; Peres, Carlos A.; Pinder, L. C. V.

doi:10.1002/(sici)1098-2345(1997)41:4<289::aid-ajp2>3.0.co;2-t

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“…Prey capture success in golden lion tamarins is highly variable (Miller and Dietz 2005), and foraging success rates vary 15–60% for adults, and are at 87% for juveniles in the 15 cases reported as putative teaching behavior (Dietz et al 1997; Peres 1989; Rapaport 2011; Rapaport and Ruiz-Miranda 2002). Compared to that in adults, the success rate observed in our experiment is slightly higher than those reported previously, which could be because the food we used could not escape the substrate (we used bananas instead of insects for logistical and ethical reasons).…”

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“…They also have a broad diet, which includes fruits, flowers, nectar, exudates, bird eggs, fungi, insects, and small vertebrate prey (Dietz et al 1997; Lapenta et al 2003; Rylands 1989). Their food resources are patchily distributed over large home ranges, and are ephemeral (Dietz et al 1997). This creates the need for learning during ontogeny of what foods are good to eat, where to find them, and how to access them.…”

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Food-Offering Calls in Wild Golden Lion Tamarins (Leontopithecus rosalia): Evidence for Teaching Behavior?

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Many animals emit calls in the presence of food, but researchers do not always know the function of these calls. Evidence suggests that adult golden lion tamarins (Leontopithecus rosalia) use food-offering calls to teach juveniles which substrate (i.e., microhabitat) to forage on, or in, for food. However, we do not yet know whether juveniles learn from this aspect of the adults’ behavior. Here we examine whether juveniles learn to associate food-offering calls with a foraging substrate, as a step toward assessing whether these calls qualify as teaching behavior. We compared the performance of four wild juvenile golden lion tamarins that were introduced to a novel substrate while exposed to playbacks of food-offering calls (experimental condition) to the performance of three juveniles that were exposed to the novel substrate without the presence of food-offering playbacks (control condition). We varied the location of the novel substrate between trials. We found that food-offering calls had an immediate effect on juveniles’ interactions with the novel substrate, whether they inserted their hands into the substrate and their eating behavior, and a long-term effect on eating behavior at the substrate. The findings imply that juvenile golden lion tamarins can learn through food-offering calls about the availability of food at a substrate, which is consistent with (but does not prove) teaching in golden lion tamarins through stimulus enhancement. Our findings support the hypothesis that teaching might be more likely to evolve in cooperatively breeding species with complex ecological niches.Electronic supplementary materialThe online version of this article (10.1007/s10764-018-0069-z) contains supplementary material, which is available to authorized users.

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“…However, long, prehensile fingers in primates are also implicated in a greater ability to manipulate objects (Lemelin, ). Specialist manipulative foragers such as Leontopithecus have longer, narrower hands than other callitrichid genera (Bicca‐Marques, ), linked to their strategy of foraging in crevices such as bromeliads and tree holes (Dietz et al, ). The present study also found that Leontopithecus had significantly longer hands (and fingers) than Callithrix, Cebuella, Mico and Saguinus .…”

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“…Where several studies had comparably collected/described data, average values were calculated. Data were collated from results in the following studies: Garber, 1 ; da Fonseca and Lacher, 2 ; Garber and Sussman, 3 ; Yoneda, 4 ,b; Garber, 5 ; Ayres and Clutton‐Brock, 6 ; Egler, 7 ; Ferrari and Strier, 8 ; Garber, 9 ; Peres, 10 ; Rosenberger, 11 ; Garber, 12 ; Peres, 13 ; Lopes and Ferrari, 14 ; Peres, 15 ; Garber and Pruetz, 16 ; Ferrari and Digby, 17 ; Dietz et al, 18 ; Peres, 19 ; Garber, 20 ; Hamrick, 21 ; Youlatos, 22 ; Araújo et al, 23 ; Corrêa et al, 24 ; Heymann and Buchanan‐Smith, 25 ; Heymann et al, 26 ; Martins and Setz, 27 ; Oliveira and Ferrari, 28 ; Garber and Leigh, 29 ; Miranda and Faria, 30 ; Porter, 31 ; Regan et al, 32 ; Lehman, 33 ; Porter, 34 ; Poveda and Sanchez‐Palomino, 35 ; Raboy and Dietz, 36 ; Bicca‐Marques, 37 ; Garber et al, 38 ; Yépez et al, 39 ; Cunha et al, 40 ; Burity et al, 41 ,; da Silva and Ferrari, 42 ; de Castro and Araújo, 43 ; Digby et al, 44 ; Garber, 45 ; Lapenta and Procópio‐de‐Oliveira, 46 ; Nadjafzadeh and Heymann, 47 ; Porter et al, 48 ; Raboy et al, 49 ; Garber et al, 50 ; Garber and Porter, 51 ; Porter et al, 52 ; Rehg, 53 ; Veracini, 54 ; Youlatos, 55 ; Hilário and Ferrari, 56 ; Porter and Garber, 57 ; Smith, …”

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An investigation of ecological correlates with hand and foot morphology in callitrichid primates

Smith

2013

American J Phys Anthropol

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Studies of primate taxomony and phylogeny often depend on comparisons of limb dimensions, yet there is little information on how morphology correlates and contributes to foraging strategies and ecology. Callitrichid primates are ideal for comparative studies as they exhibit a range of body size, limb proportions and diet. Many callitrichid species exhibit a high degree of exudativory and to efficiently exploit these resources they are assumed to have evolved morphologies that reflect a level of dependence on these resources. We tested assumptions by considering measurements of limb proportion and frictional features of the volar surfaces in preserved specimens of 25 species with relation to published life history and ecological data.The degree of exudativory and utilization of vertical substrates during foraging were found to correlate both with size and with size-corrected foot and hand dimensions. Smaller species, which engage in greater degrees of exudativory, had proportionally longer hands and feet and more curved claw-like tegulae (nails) on their digits to facilitate climbing on vertical substrates.The density of patterned ridges (dermatoglyphs) on the volar surfaces of the hands and feet is higher in more exudativorous genera, suggesting a role in climbing on vertical tree trunks during foraging. Dermatoglyph comparisons suggest that ridges on the soles and palms may facilitate food procurement by enhancing frictional grip during exudate feeding. Volar pad features corroborate taxonomic relationships described from dental morphology. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 51 52 53 54 55 56 57 58 59 60 Callitrichidae (Mammalia: Primates) includes over forty diverse species of New World Monkey. These may be grouped into 'marmosets' (Callibella, Callimico, Callithrix, Cebuella, and Mico) or tamarins (Leontopithecus and Saguinus) (Rylands et al., 2012). Prior to the reassessment of taxonomic relationships by Rylands et al., (2000) and the subsequent recognition of Callibella as a separate species (Van Roosmalen and Van Roosmalen, 2003), Callithrix was the most diverse genus, with over twenty species. Since 2003 Callibella, Callimico and Cebuella have been considered monotypic and fourteen species have been removed from Callithrix to a new genus Mico, thereby making Saguinus the most diverse callitrichid genus (Rylands et al., 2012). Recent analysis of phylogenetic relationships in all primates (Perelman et al. 2011) further confirms the taxonomy described in Cortés-Ortiz (2009): (Saguinus (Leontopithecus (Callimico (Callithrix (Callibella (Cebuella/Mico)))))).Although their taxonomy is under seemingly constant review, callitrichids are ideal subjects to investigate morphology and allometry trends in relation to ecology because they represent a wide range of body sizes and exhibit variability in diet and foraging strategies both between a...

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“…Lion tamarins ( Leontopithecus spp.) feed on a wide range of invertebrates and small vertebrates; by using their long fingers, they extract prey hidden in holes, crevices, beneath tree bark, and especially inside bromeliad plants (Dietz, Peres, & Pinder, ). Capuchin monkeys routinely exploit fruits with hard teguments, xylophagous insects and underground plant parts (Eadie, ; Fragaszy, Visalberghi, & Fedigan, ; O'Malley & Fedigan, ; Perry & Manson, ; Terborgh, ).…”

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Manual skills for processing plant underground storage organs by wild bearded capuchins

Truppa

Marino

Izar

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American J Phys Anthropol

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Objectives: Wild Sapajus libidinosus exploit underground storage organs (USOs) that require extraction and extensive processing before consumption. Since capuchin monkeys are small-sized extractive foragers that cannot perform forceful precision grips, we expected that: (a) they would use other body parts together with their hands, (b) older (and larger) capuchins would be more efficient than younger (and smaller) ones, and (c) capuchins would invest greater effort/time to exploit USOs than other foods. Materials and Methods:We recorded 178 episodes of USO processing performed by 20 individuals. The behavior was videotaped and scored frame-by-frame.Results: We identified six sequential stages of processing: Excavation, extraction, soil removal, transport, peeling, and fragmenting the inner tissues. Capuchins made frequent use of forceful hand postures and manipulation in which the hands were strongly supported by other body parts, principally the mouth. Older capuchins were more efficient than younger individuals in pulling the USOs out of the ground. Finally, exploiting USOs was time-consuming, lasting more than 4 min per item, on average.Discussion: Despite having smaller body-mass and greater manual constraints than catarrhine extractive foragers, capuchins, even smaller individuals, mastered USO processing thanks to their behavioral flexibility and persistence. Our findings reveal that precision grips are not essential for forceful actions during complex food processing and that, unlike catarrhines, capuchins, especially adults, rarely use thumb opposition during forceful grasping of food. In contrast, extended sustained attention and varied manual behavior appear to be convergent features of platyrrhine and catarrhine extractive foragers. K E Y W O R D Sdigging behavior, extractive foraging, manual dexterity, USOs, Sapajus libidinosus

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Foraging ecology and use of space in wild golden lion tamarins (Leontopithecus rosalia)

Cited by 158 publications

References 39 publications

Food-Offering Calls in Wild Golden Lion Tamarins (Leontopithecus rosalia): Evidence for Teaching Behavior?

Food-Offering Calls in Wild Golden Lion Tamarins (Leontopithecus rosalia): Evidence for Teaching Behavior?

An investigation of ecological correlates with hand and foot morphology in callitrichid primates

Manual skills for processing plant underground storage organs by wild bearded capuchins

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