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Social Communication And Vocal Recognition In Free Ranging Rhesus Monkeys Macaca Mulatta
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Book Synopsis Social Communication and Vocal Recognition in Free-ranging Rhesus Monkeys (Macaca Mulatta) by : Christopher Andrew Rendall
Download or read book Social Communication and Vocal Recognition in Free-ranging Rhesus Monkeys (Macaca Mulatta) written by Christopher Andrew Rendall and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Vocal Communication in an Introduced Colony of Feral Rhesus Monkeys (Macaca Mulatta) by : Elizabeth Helen Peters
Download or read book Vocal Communication in an Introduced Colony of Feral Rhesus Monkeys (Macaca Mulatta) written by Elizabeth Helen Peters and published by . This book was released on 1983 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Vocal communication in a free-ranging group of rhesus monkeys (Macaca mulatta) was examined in order to provide baseline data on the social use of vocalizations in a complex environment. The subjects were a natural troop of feral monkeys inhabiting the banks of the Silver River near Silver Springs, Florida. Vocalizations were recorded and accompanying behavioral data collected using both ad libitum and sequence sampling. Spectrograms were made of representative vocalizations and a catalogue was constructed delineating both the physical characteristics of the sounds and their social usage. Functional, as well as acoustic, criteria were used to distinguish calls, analogous to the manner in which phonemes are distinguished. The present catalogue was compared with other catalogues previously published for rhesus monkeys and other species of macaque. Both the stereotypy of some calls and the graded nature of other calls were noted. It was suggested that all calls could best be understood as the result of position along a series of form gradients, with stereotypic calls occupying relatively invariant positions and "graded" calls occupying variable positions along one or more gradients. The possibility that meaning may be the result of position along multiple form-meaning gradients was also suggested as a constrast to the standard assumption that meaning is categorically coded. Evidence for individualization was examined for the call designated the "basic coo." Although usually referred to as a contact call, the individualized nature of this call suggests that it may function to provide a maintenance level of individualized interaction between group members, necessary to inhibit xenophobic aggression within the group.
Book Synopsis Animal Vocal Communication by : Donald H. Owings
Download or read book Animal Vocal Communication written by Donald H. Owings and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1998-04-23 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book will be a landmark text for all those interested in animal communication. Animal Vocal Communication explicitly avoids human-centred concepts and approaches and links communication to fundamental biological processes instead. It offers a conceptual framework - assessment/management - that allows us to integrate detailed studies of communication with an understanding of evolutionary perspectives. Self-interested assessment is placed on par with the signal production (management) side of communication, and communication is viewed as reflecting regulatory processes. Signals are used to manage the behaviour of others by exploiting their active assessment. The authors contend that it is this interplay between management and assessment that results in the functioning and evolution of animal communication; it is what communicative behaviour accomplishes that is important, not what information is conveyed.
Download or read book Communication written by Donald H. Owings and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2013-11-11 with total page 438 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ON THE FUTURE OF PERSPECTIVES When Patrick Bateson and Peter Klopfer offered me the editorship of Perspectives in 1992, the world of academic publishing was in one of its periodic upheavals. Subscriptions to series-even distinguished series such as Perspec tives-had been declining and individual volume prices had been rising, a trend that if continued could only result in the series pricing itself out of the market. In the course of the negotiations around the change of editors, the publishers offered a cost-cutting solution: change the production pattern to "camera ready" and elimi nate the costs of indexing and proofreading. While I could see the sense in this proposal, I was reluctant to accept it. Part of what I had always liked about the volumes in this series was that they were real books, intelligently proofread, nicely laid out, and provided with proper indexes. Thus, I in return offered a "Devil's bargain": the publisher should maintain the present quality of the series for two more volumes and make a renewed effort to advertise the series to our ethological and sociobiological colleagues, while I as the new series editor committed myself to a renewed effort to make Perspectives the publication of choice for writers who are trying to get their message out to the world intact and readers who are seeking clear, coherent, comprehensive and untrammeled presentations of authors' ideas and research programs.
Book Synopsis Ontogeny of Social Relations in a Group of Free Ranging Rhesus Monkeys (Macaca Mulatta Zimmerman) by : Donald Stone Sade
Download or read book Ontogeny of Social Relations in a Group of Free Ranging Rhesus Monkeys (Macaca Mulatta Zimmerman) written by Donald Stone Sade and published by . This book was released on 1966 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Kinship and Behavior in Primates by : Bernard Chapais
Download or read book Kinship and Behavior in Primates written by Bernard Chapais and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2004-03-04 with total page 520 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents a series of review chapters on the various aspects of primate kinship and behavior, as a fundamental reference for students and professionals interested in primate behavior, ecology and evolution. The relatively new molecular data allow one to assess directly degrees of genetic relatedness and kinship relations between individuals, and a considerable body of data on intergroup variation, based on experimental studies in both free-ranging and captive groups has accumulated, allowing a rather full and satisfying reconsideration of this whole broad area of research. The book should be of considerable interest to students of social evolution and behavioral ecology.
Book Synopsis Acoustic Communication by : Andrea Simmons
Download or read book Acoustic Communication written by Andrea Simmons and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2006-04-18 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In order to communicate, animals send and receive signals that are subject to their particular anatomical, psychological, and environmental constraints. This SHAR volume discusses both the production and perception of acoustic signals. Chapters address the information that animals communicate, how the communication is developed and learned, and how communication systems have adapted and evolved within species. The book will give examples from a variety of species.
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Book Synopsis Social Communication Among Primates by : American Association for the Advancement of Science
Download or read book Social Communication Among Primates written by American Association for the Advancement of Science and published by Chicago : University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 1967 with total page 472 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Mind the Gap written by Peter Kappeler and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2009-11-09 with total page 503 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume features a collection of essays by primatologists, anthropologists, biologists, and psychologists who offer some answers to the question of what makes us human, i. e. , what is the nature and width of the gap that separates us from other primates? The chapters of this volume summarize the latest research on core aspects of behavioral and cognitive traits that make humans such unusual animals. All contributors adopt an explicitly comparative approach, which is based on the premise that comparative studies of our closest biological relatives, the nonhuman primates, provide the logical foundation for identifying human univ- sals as well as evidence for evolutionary continuity in our social behavior. Each of the chapters in this volume provides comparative analyses of relevant data from primates and humans, or pairs of chapters examine the same topic from a human or primatological perspective, respectively. Together, they cover six broad topics that are relevant to identifying potential human behavioral universals. Family and social organization. Predation pressure is thought to be the main force favoring group-living in primates, but there is great diversity in the size and structure of social groups across the primate order. Research on the behavioral ecology of primates and other animals has revealed that the distribution of males and females in space and time can be explained by sex-speci?c adaptations that are sensitive to factors that limit their ?tness: access to resources for females and access to potential mates for males.
Book Synopsis Current Topics in Primate Vocal Communication by : U. Jürgens
Download or read book Current Topics in Primate Vocal Communication written by U. Jürgens and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2013-06-29 with total page 504 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: More than 25 years ago, the first major review of primate communication appeared (Altmann, 1967). Since then, information on the communicative abilities of primates increased rapidly, resulting, 15 years later, in the appearance of the first volume in which signaling systems were analyzed in a broader variety of primate groups within an evolutionary perspective (Snowdon, Brown and Petersen, 1982). Seven years later, the first volume dedicated solely to primate vocal communication appeared (Todt, Goedeking and Symmes, 1988) and another four years later a volume followed in which nonverbal vocal communication in non-human primates and human infants was compared (Papousek, Jurgens and Papousek, 1992). None of these volumes, however, provided information about current technical advances in the field of bioacoustics, especially in digital sound analyzing systems, which offer primatologists, anthropologists and linguists nowadays a variety of rapid methods for analyzing human speech and non-human primate vocalizations in a quantitative and comparative way. Choosing the right method is difficult if a synopsis of these tools is lacking. Furthermore, information was particularly lacking on the natural signaling systems of two important primate groups, the prosimians and the apes. Likewise, new and unexpected insights into the ontogeny and evolution of vocal communication were gained during the past few years by the use of highly sophisticated sound analysis and statistical techniques.
Book Synopsis Primate Psychology by : Dario Maestripieri
Download or read book Primate Psychology written by Dario Maestripieri and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2005-09-06 with total page 632 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In more ways than we may sometimes care to acknowledge, the human being is just another primate--it is certainly only very rarely that researchers into cognition, emotion, personality, and behavior in our species and in other primates come together to compare notes and share insights. This book, one of the few comprehensive attempts at integrating behavioral research into human and nonhuman primates, does precisely that--and in doing so, offers a clear, in-depth look at the mutually enlightening work being done in psychology and primatology. Relying on theories of behavior derived from psychology rather than ecology or biological anthropology, the authors, internationally known experts in primatology and psychology, focus primarily on social processes in areas including aggression, conflict resolution, sexuality, attachment, parenting, social development and affiliation, cognitive development, social cognition, personality, emotions, vocal and nonvocal communication, cognitive neuroscience, and psychopathology. They show nonhuman primates to be far more complex, cognitively and emotionally, than was once supposed, with provocative implications for our understanding of supposedly unique human characteristics. Arguing that both human and nonhuman primates are distinctive for their wide range of context-sensitive behaviors, their work makes a powerful case for the future integration of human and primate behavioral research.
Book Synopsis Variation in the Social Behavior, Perception, and Biology of the Rhesus Macaque (Macaca Mulatta) by : Jesus Evaristo Madrid
Download or read book Variation in the Social Behavior, Perception, and Biology of the Rhesus Macaque (Macaca Mulatta) written by Jesus Evaristo Madrid and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sociality evolved due to the enhanced fitness benefits associated with group living and was likely facilitated by the evolution of neural pathways that support the perception of social stimuli. Despite the adaptive benefits of proper processing of social stimuli, within-species differences in social perception abilities exist. This dissertation studies the highly social rhesus macaque in order to investigate the complex inter-relationships between individual variation in social perception, social interactions with conspecifics, and markers of oxytocin (OT) and arginine vasopressin (AVP) functioning, two neuropeptides known to modulate both social perception and social affiliation. Study 1 quantified individual differences in social perception abilities during infancy to test whether these abilities predict group differences in sociality later in life. While researchers had theorized that low social connectedness is associated with poor perception of social signals in adulthood, the relationship between early social perceptual abilities and later social functioning had not been previously tested. This study showed that monkeys with greater social recognition and social communication abilities in infancy are more likely to be categorized as high-social, whereas monkeys with impairments in these species-typical abilities in infancy are more likely to be categorized as low-social, later in life. These findings suggest that social perceptual differences at 3-4 months of age are early indicators of developmental trajectories that may ultimately influence social functioning into early adulthood. Study 2 quantified OT concentrations from concomitantly collected cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) and blood samples to test whether individual differences in social recognition during infancy are associated with markers of endogenous OT biology during juvenility. While studies had shown that administration of exogenous OT changes how primates visually process faces, whether natural variation in face processing abilities is related to differences in endogenous OT functioning was unknown. This study showed that face recognition ability in infancy positively predicts CSF OT concentration up to 5 years later, such that individuals with the greatest social recognition abilities in infancy had the highest CSF OT concentrations later in life. These findings suggest that individual social perceptual differences are associated with natural variation in OT concentrations when assessed in central, but not in peripheral, matrices. Study 3 used home corral observations of social interactions during juvenility to test whether variation in OT and AVP biology is associated with differences in social communication abilities and the quality of social relationships. While neuropeptides are known to facilitate social bonds between conspecifics, whether this relationship is mediated by variation in social communication abilities was unknown. This study showed that monkeys with higher CSF AVP concentrations use more groom solicitations, an important affiliative social signal in the species, and that this social signal, in turn, is associated with a greater number of strongly bonded social partners. These findings suggest that AVP signaling exerts an influence on the strength of social bonds through groom solicitations. These collective studies advance a nuanced perspective on how endogenous OT and AVP functioning facilitates social interactions, in part, by modulating the perception of socially relevant stimuli. Specifically, this dissertation revealed that variation in social perceptual abilities during infancy are related to both OT functioning and group differences in sociality, and that the relationship between variation in sociality and AVP functioning is mediated by an individual's social perceptual abilities. In doing so, this dissertation promotes a better understanding of how these neuropeptide systems enabled the evolution of sociality.
Book Synopsis Elephant Sense and Sensibility by : Michael Garstang
Download or read book Elephant Sense and Sensibility written by Michael Garstang and published by Academic Press. This book was released on 2015-02-12 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Elephant Sense and Sensibility is a comprehensive treatment of the full range of elephant behavior. Beginning with chapters on evolution and the elephant’s brain, this book is an integrated presentation of the elephant’s capacity for memory, morality, emotion, empathy, altruism, language, intelligence, learning and teaching. Grounded primarily in scientific research, the book also draws upon anecdotal and visual evidence showing elephants thinking, acting, feeling and behaving in ways that we, as humans, recognize. This complete treatment of elephant behavior supported by the extensive literature, along with anecdotal and photographic material, provides an overview not available in any other text. Covers a variety of aspects that relate to behavior, ranging from brain function and sensory input to communication, learning, and intelligence Features a comprehensive treatment of elephant behavior supported by the extensive literature, anecdotal information, and striking photographic material, providing an overview not available in any other text Features an interdisciplinary approach to behavior, with vital information included and integrated from several key disciplines
Book Synopsis Animal Acoustic Communication by : Steven L. Hopp
Download or read book Animal Acoustic Communication written by Steven L. Hopp and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 437 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The last decades have brought a significant increase in research on acoustic communi cation in animals. Publication of scientific papers on both empirical and theoretical aspects of this topic has greatly increased, and a new journal, Bioacoustics, is entirely devoted to such articles. Coupled with this proliferation of work is a recognition that many of the current issues are best approached with an interdisciplinary perspective, requiring technical and theoretical contributions from a number of areas of inquiry that have traditionally been separated. With the notable exception of a collection edited by Lewis (1983), there have been fewvolumes predominatelyfocused on technical issues in comparative bioacoustics to follow up the earlyworks edited by Lanyon and Tavolga (1960) and Busnel (1963). It was the tremendous growth of expertise c:()ncerning this topic in particular that provided the initial impetus to organize this volume, which attempts to present fundamental information from both theoretical and applied aspects of current bioacoustics research. While a completely comprehensive review would be impractical, this volume offers a basic treatment of a wide variety of topics aimed at providing a conceptual framework within which researchers can address their own questions. Each presentation is designed to be useful to the broadest possible spectrum of researchers, including both those currently working in any of the many and diverse disciplines of bioacoustics, and others that may be new to such studies.
Book Synopsis The Role of Vocal Communication in the Intra-group Social Dynamics of Stumptailed Macaques (Macaca Arctoides) by : K. A. Bauers
Download or read book The Role of Vocal Communication in the Intra-group Social Dynamics of Stumptailed Macaques (Macaca Arctoides) written by K. A. Bauers and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Primate Vocal Communication by : Dietmar Todt
Download or read book Primate Vocal Communication written by Dietmar Todt and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Communication is both a prerequisite and manifestation of social organization and in this sense several chapters of this volume are aimed to investigate the way vocal communication serves its ultimate function of maintaining social organization. Although manifold parallels exist to vocal communication in birds, additional mechanisms of vocalization are found in primates. Treating the various psychological, ecological, behavioral, and neurobiological aspects of vocalization this book provides an interdisciplinary approach for the understanding of biocommunication in primates including humans. Conceptual as well as methodological considerations are given in a balanced way. The addition of a comprehensive glossary gives an overview also to nonspecialists in this field.
Book Synopsis Primate Audition by : Asif A. Ghazanfar
Download or read book Primate Audition written by Asif A. Ghazanfar and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2002-08-28 with total page 333 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bringing together the knowledge of world experts on different aspects of primate auditory function, this book bridges the epistemological gap between primate ethologists and auditory neurobiologists. Leading ethologists, comparative psychologists, and neuroscientists who have developed new experimental approaches apply their methods to a variety of issues dealing with primate vocal behavior and the neurobiology of the primate auditory system. The synthesis of ethological and neurobiological approaches to primate vocal behavior presented in this book will yield a rich understanding of the acoustic and neural bases of primate audition and shed light on the evolutionary precursors to speech.
