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An audience effect in sooty mangabey alarm calling
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dc.contributor.author | Quintero, Fredy | |
dc.contributor.author | Touitou, Sonia | |
dc.contributor.author | Magris, Martina | |
dc.contributor.author | Zuberbühler, Klaus | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2022-03-08T10:30:21Z | |
dc.date.available | 2022-03-08T10:30:21Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2022-02-21 | |
dc.identifier | 278194641 | |
dc.identifier | 61f526bb-11fd-4ac0-9494-38b5a4d38dfc | |
dc.identifier | 85126033551 | |
dc.identifier | 000772529200001 | |
dc.identifier.citation | Quintero , F , Touitou , S , Magris , M & Zuberbühler , K 2022 , ' An audience effect in sooty mangabey alarm calling ' , Frontiers in Psychology , vol. 13 , 816744 . https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2022.816744 | en |
dc.identifier.issn | 1664-1078 | |
dc.identifier.other | Jisc: 142017 | |
dc.identifier.other | ORCID: /0000-0001-8378-088X/work/109766302 | |
dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/10023/25004 | |
dc.description | Funding: This research has been funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation (310030_143359) and European Research Council (PRILANG GA283871). | en |
dc.description.abstract | How does intentional communication evolve? Comparative studies can shed light on the evolutionary history of this relevant feature of human language and its distribution before modern humans. The current animal literature on intentional signaling consists mostly of ape gestural studies with evidence of subjects persisting and elaborating with sometimes arbitrary signals toward a desired outcome. Although vocalizations can also have such imperative qualities, they are typically produced in a functionally fixed manner, as if evolved for a specific purpose. Yet, intentionality can sometimes transpire even in functionally fixed calls, for example, if production is adapted to audience composition. In this study, we carried out field experiments to test whether free-ranging sooty mangabeys adjusted snake alarm call production to their audiences. We found a positive relation between alarm call production and naïve individuals arriving, suggesting that callers attempted to influence their behaviors relative to the snake. Subjects called more with smaller audiences, if they had not heard other calls before, and if socially important individuals were in the area. We concluded that sooty mangabeys alarm call production can be explained as an active attempt to refer to an external event, rather than a mere readout of an internal state. | |
dc.format.extent | 10 | |
dc.format.extent | 3454115 | |
dc.language.iso | eng | |
dc.relation.ispartof | Frontiers in Psychology | en |
dc.subject | Psychology | en |
dc.subject | Snake-alarm calls | en |
dc.subject | Cercocebus atys | en |
dc.subject | Vocal communication | en |
dc.subject | Audience effects | en |
dc.subject | Intentionality | en |
dc.subject | BF Psychology | en |
dc.subject | QL Zoology | en |
dc.subject | DAS | en |
dc.subject | MCC | en |
dc.subject.lcc | BF | en |
dc.subject.lcc | QL | en |
dc.title | An audience effect in sooty mangabey alarm calling | en |
dc.type | Journal article | en |
dc.contributor.institution | University of St Andrews. Institute of Behavioural and Neural Sciences | en |
dc.contributor.institution | University of St Andrews. Centre for Social Learning & Cognitive Evolution | en |
dc.contributor.institution | University of St Andrews. School of Psychology and Neuroscience | en |
dc.contributor.institution | University of St Andrews. Organic Semiconductor Centre | en |
dc.identifier.doi | 10.3389/fpsyg.2022.816744 | |
dc.description.status | Peer reviewed | en |
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