Primate Audition: Reception, Perception, and Ecology

Ramsier, Marissa; Rauschecker, Josef P.

doi:10.1007/978-3-319-59478-1_3

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“… 9,12,14 For example, primate cochlear volume is negatively correlated with low‐ and high‐frequency hearing limits 12 . Overall, primates are comparable to other similarly sized mammals in high‐frequency hearing and exhibit reasonable sensitivity to low‐frequency sounds 10,15 . However, the auditory sensitivities of primates can vary widely, sometimes as a function of phylogeny and head‐size constraints, 10,16 or the pressures of natural and sexual selection 17–19 …”

Section: Overview Of Current Knowledgementioning

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The sensory ecology of primate food perception, revisited

Veilleux

Dominy

Melin

2022

Evolutionary Anthropology

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Twenty years ago, Dominy and colleagues published “The sensory ecology of primate food perception,” an impactful review that brought new perspectives to understanding primate foraging adaptations. Their review synthesized information on primate senses and explored how senses informed feeding behavior. Research on primate sensory ecology has seen explosive growth in the last two decades. Here, we revisit this important topic, focusing on the numerous new discoveries and lines of innovative research. We begin by reviewing each of the five traditionally recognized senses involved in foraging: audition, olfaction, vision, touch, and taste. For each sense, we provide an overview of sensory function and comparative ecology, comment on the state of knowledge at the time of the original review, and highlight advancements and lingering gaps in knowledge. Next, we provide an outline for creative, multidisciplinary, and innovative future research programs that we anticipate will generate exciting new discoveries in the next two decades.

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Section: Overview Of Current Knowledgementioning

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The sensory ecology of primate food perception, revisited

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Dominy

Melin

2022

Evolutionary Anthropology

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“…The sensory ecology of primate audition has been shaped by body size and habitat 51 . Lower frequencies attenuate at a slower rate which reduces signal‐to‐noise ratios and also allows larger groups traveling through a variety of acoustic environments to better track conspecifics 53,54 . The human habitat, characterized by comparatively open spaces, has furthered the trend to lower frequency hearing 54 .…”

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“…Lower frequencies attenuate at a slower rate which reduces signal‐to‐noise ratios and also allows larger groups traveling through a variety of acoustic environments to better track conspecifics 53,54 . The human habitat, characterized by comparatively open spaces, has furthered the trend to lower frequency hearing 54 . Humans have a highly derived audiogram with one peak sensitivity rather than two, which expands detection in the mid‐range of freqencies 51 .…”

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“…Haplorrhines (the group that includes all monkeys, apes, and tarsiers) are generally less sensitive to high‐frequency sounds, produce few high frequency localization cues, and have limited ability to produce high‐frequency alarm calls. As such, they may have relied less on high frequency alarm calls and more on other anti‐predator strategies, which resulted in the low‐frequency sensitivity of humans 54 . The social drive hypothesis combines the complexities of sociability and habitat changes because it posits that larger groups travel greater distances and traverse a wide range of habitats, requiring better ability to detect discrete vocal signals in a variety of acoustic environments 53 .…”

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“…This also would account for tuning to lower frequencies because they attenuate at a slower rate, which allows tracking conspecifics, and reduces signal‐to‐noise ratios. In hominins, the shift to lower frequencies may also reflect an adaptive advantage in new habitats that were characterized by open spaces 54 . Human audition is considered to the derived from the ancestral state due to loss of higher frequency detection and an expanded midrange frequency detection.…”

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Sensory disruption and sensory inequities in the Anthropocene

Hoover

2021

Evolutionary Anthropology

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Anthropogenic disruptions to animal sensory ecology are as old as our species. But what about the effect on human sensory ecology? Human sensory dysfunction is increasing globally at great economic and health costs (mental, physical, and social). Contemporary sensory problems are directly tied to human behavioral changes and activity as well as anthropogenic pollution. The evolutionary sensory ecology and anthropogenic disruptions to three human senses (vision, audition, olfaction) are examined along with the economic and health costs of functionally reduced senses and demographic risk factors contributing to impairment. The primary goals of the paper are (a) to sew an evolutionary and ecological thread through clinical narratives on sensory dysfunction that highlights the impact of the built environment on the senses, and (b) to highlight structural, demographic, and environmental injustices that create sensory inequities in risk and that promote health disparities.

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The importance of auditory, olfactory, and visual cues for insect foraging in owl monkeys (Aotus nancymaae)

Breitenbach,

Ambros,

Risko

et al. 2023

American J Primatol

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Nocturnal mammals have unique sensory adaptations to facilitate foraging at night. Owl monkeys (Aotus spp.) are pair‐living nocturnal platyrrhines adept at capturing insect prey under low‐light conditions. Owl monkeys use acoustic and chemical cues in intraspecific communication and use olfaction to detect fruit as they forage. We conducted an experiment to determine which cues (auditory, olfactory, and visual) Aotus nancymaae rely upon when foraging for insects. We scored the behavior of 23 captive owl monkeys during a series of trials in which monkeys were provided sensory boxes with insect cues either present (experimental box) or absent (control box). Each cue was tested alone and in combination with all other cues (multimodal cues). We used generalized linear mixed models to determine which cues elicited the greatest behavioral response. Owl monkeys approached and spent more time near experimental boxes than control boxes. Male owl monkeys were quicker than their female partners to approach the sensory boxes, suggesting that males may be less neophobic than females. The owl monkeys exhibited behaviors associated with olfaction and foraging (e.g., sneezing, trilling) during trials with multimodal cues and when only olfactory cues were present. When only visual or auditory cues were present, owl monkeys exhibited fewer foraging‐related behaviors. After approaching a sensory box, however, they often touched boxes containing visual cues. A. nancymaae may rely on olfactory cues at night to detect a food source from several meters away and then rely more on visual cues once they are closer to the food source. Their use of sensory cues during insect foraging differs from nocturnal strepsirrhines, possibly reflecting physiological constraints associated with phylogeny, given that owl monkeys evolved nocturnality secondarily from a more recent diurnal ancestor.

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Primate Audition: Reception, Perception, and Ecology

Cited by 8 publications

References 132 publications

The sensory ecology of primate food perception, revisited

The sensory ecology of primate food perception, revisited

Sensory disruption and sensory inequities in the Anthropocene

The importance of auditory, olfactory, and visual cues for insect foraging in owl monkeys (Aotus nancymaae)

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