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dc.contributor.authorFedurek, Pawel
dc.contributor.authorNeumann, Christof
dc.contributor.authorBouquet, Yaelle
dc.contributor.authorMercier, Stephanie
dc.contributor.authorMagris, Martina
dc.contributor.authorQuintero, Fredy
dc.contributor.authorZuberbuhler, Klaus
dc.date.accessioned2019-04-24T11:30:01Z
dc.date.available2019-04-24T11:30:01Z
dc.date.issued2019-04-24
dc.identifier.citationFedurek , P , Neumann , C , Bouquet , Y , Mercier , S , Magris , M , Quintero , F & Zuberbuhler , K 2019 , ' Behavioural patterns of vocal greeting production in four primate species ' , Royal Society Open Science , vol. 6 , no. 4 , 182181 . https://doi.org/10.1098/rsos.182181en
dc.identifier.issn2054-5703
dc.identifier.otherPURE: 258269342
dc.identifier.otherPURE UUID: 0ec4106c-2cb0-43a1-99b9-f258fa203b59
dc.identifier.otherScopus: 85065571936
dc.identifier.otherWOS: 000466513900029
dc.identifier.otherORCID: /0000-0001-8378-088X/work/64360655
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10023/17587
dc.descriptionThe study was funded by Swiss National Science Foundation (310030_143359) and European Research Council (PRILANG 283871) project grants awarded to K.Z.en
dc.description.abstractSocial animals have evolved a range of signals to avoid aggressive and facilitate affiliative interactions. Vocal behaviour is especially important in this respect with many species, including various primates, producing acoustically distinct ‘greeting calls’ when two individuals approach each other. While the ultimate function of greeting calls has been explored in several species, little effort has been made to understand the mechanisms of this behaviour across species. The aim of this study was to explore how differences in individual features (individual dominance rank), dyadic relationships (dominance distance and social bond strength) and audience composition (presence of high-ranking or strongly bonded individuals in proximity), related to vocal greeting production during approaches between two individuals in the philopatric sex of four primate species: female olive baboons (Papio anubis), male chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes), female sooty mangabeys (Cercocebus atys) and female vervet monkeys (Chlorocebus pygerythrus). We found that female vervet monkeys did not produce greeting calls, while in the other three species, low-ranking individuals were more likely to call than high-ranking ones. The effects of dyadic dominance relationships differed in species-specific ways, with calling being positively associated with the rank distance between two individuals in baboons and chimpanzees, but negatively in mangabeys. In none of the tested species did we find strong evidence for an effect of dyadic affiliative relationships or audience on call production. These results likely reflect deeper evolutionary layers of species-specific peculiarities in social style. We conclude that a comparative approach to investigate vocal behaviour has the potential to not only better understand the mechanisms mediating social signal production but also to shed light on their evolutionary trajectories.
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dc.language.isoeng
dc.relation.ispartofRoyal Society Open Scienceen
dc.rightsCopyright © 2019 The Authors. Published by the Royal Society under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/, which permits unrestricted use, provided the original author and source are credited.en
dc.subjectGreeting callsen
dc.subjectAudience effectsen
dc.subjectVocal productionen
dc.subjectDyadic encountersen
dc.subjectCommunicationen
dc.subjectBF Psychologyen
dc.subjectQL Zoologyen
dc.subjectDASen
dc.subject.lccBFen
dc.subject.lccQLen
dc.titleBehavioural patterns of vocal greeting production in four primate speciesen
dc.typeJournal articleen
dc.description.versionPublisher PDFen
dc.contributor.institutionUniversity of St Andrews. Institute of Behavioural and Neural Sciencesen
dc.contributor.institutionUniversity of St Andrews. Centre for Social Learning & Cognitive Evolutionen
dc.contributor.institutionUniversity of St Andrews. School of Psychology and Neuroscienceen
dc.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.1098/rsos.182181
dc.description.statusPeer revieweden


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