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dc.contributor.authorTroisi, Camille A.
dc.contributor.authorHoppitt, William J. E.
dc.contributor.authorRuiz-Miranda, Carlos R.
dc.contributor.authorLaland, Kevin N.
dc.date.accessioned2020-06-26T10:34:51Z
dc.date.available2020-06-26T10:34:51Z
dc.date.issued2020-06-24
dc.identifier268708141
dc.identifier325fc7f2-93a5-4715-8b1a-3c572b4f8901
dc.identifier85087071291
dc.identifier000549894600001
dc.identifier.citationTroisi , C A , Hoppitt , W J E , Ruiz-Miranda , C R & Laland , K N 2020 , ' The role of food transfers in wild golden lion tamarins ( Leontopithecus rosalia ) : support for the informational and nutritional hypothesis ' , Primates , vol. First Online . https://doi.org/10.1007/s10329-020-00835-0en
dc.identifier.issn0032-8332
dc.identifier.othercrossref: 10.1007/s10329-020-00835-0
dc.identifier.otherORCID: /0000-0002-2457-0900/work/76386576
dc.identifier.otherORCID: /0000-0002-4036-3848/work/76387007
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10023/20161
dc.descriptionFunding; The research was supported in part by a grant from the John Templeton Foundation (40128) and the European Research Council (232823), to KN Laland, and is in compliance with ASAB and ICMBio guidelines.en
dc.description.abstractCallitrichidae is a unique primate family not only in terms of the large number of food transfers to infants but also for the prevalence of transfers that are initiated by the adults. It has been hypothesized that, as well as provisioning infants, callitrichid food transfers might function to teach the receiver what food types to eat. If food provisioning has a teaching function, we would expect successful food transfers to be more likely with food types that are novel to the juveniles. We would also expect juveniles to learn about foods from those transfers. We introduced different types of food (some familiar, some novel) to wild groups of golden lion tamarins (Leontopithecus rosalia). While novel foods were not more successfully transferred than familiar food in the experiment, transfers were more successful (i.e., the receiver obtained food) when the donor had previous experience with that food. Moreover, we found evidence suggesting that food transfers influenced the future foraging choices of juveniles. Our findings are consistent with the first and third criteria of the functional definition of teaching, which requires that tutors (the adults) modify their behavior in the presence of a naïve individual (a juvenile), and that the naïve individual learns from the modified behavior of the demonstrator. Our findings are also consistent with the provisioning function of food transfer. Social learning seems to play an important role in the development of young tamarins’ foraging preferences.
dc.format.extent15
dc.format.extent1396690
dc.language.isoeng
dc.relation.ispartofPrimatesen
dc.subjectGolden lion tamarinsen
dc.subjectSocial learningen
dc.subjectTeachingen
dc.subjectFood transferen
dc.subjectInformation hypothesisen
dc.subjectQH301 Biologyen
dc.subjectDASen
dc.subject.lccQH301en
dc.titleThe role of food transfers in wild golden lion tamarins (Leontopithecus rosalia) : support for the informational and nutritional hypothesisen
dc.typeJournal articleen
dc.contributor.sponsorJohn Templeton Foundationen
dc.contributor.sponsorEuropean Research Councilen
dc.contributor.institutionUniversity of St Andrews. School of Biologyen
dc.contributor.institutionUniversity of St Andrews. Centre for Biological Diversityen
dc.contributor.institutionUniversity of St Andrews. Scottish Oceans Instituteen
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.identifier.doi10.1007/s10329-020-00835-0
dc.description.statusPeer revieweden
dc.identifier.grantnumber40128en
dc.identifier.grantnumberen


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