1. Socially mediated overlap in vocal interactions between free-ranging black howler monkeys
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Véronique Biquand, Alejandro Estrada, Margarita Briseño-Jaramillo, Alban Lemasson, Mélissa Berthet, Universidad Veracruzana, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM), Institut Jean-Nicod (IJN), Département d'Etudes Cognitives - ENS Paris (DEC), École normale supérieure - Paris (ENS Paris), Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-École normale supérieure - Paris (ENS Paris), Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-École des hautes études en sciences sociales (EHESS)-Collège de France (CdF (institution))-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Département de Philosophie - ENS Paris, Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL), Ethologie animale et humaine (EthoS), Université de Caen Normandie (UNICAEN), Normandie Université (NU)-Normandie Université (NU)-Université de Rennes 1 (UR1), Université de Rennes (UNIV-RENNES)-Université de Rennes (UNIV-RENNES)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Institut Universitaire de France (IUF), Ministère de l'Education nationale, de l’Enseignement supérieur et de la Recherche (M.E.N.E.S.R.), Consejo Nacional de Ciencia y TecnologiaConsejo Nacional de Ciencia y Tecnologia (CONACyT) [220762], European Research Council European Research Council (ERC) European Commission [788077], Agence Nationale de la Recherche French National Research Agency (ANR) European Commission [ANR-10-IDEX-0001-02, ANR-17-EURE-0017], ANR-10-IDEX-0001,PSL,Paris Sciences et Lettres(2010), ANR-17-EURE-0017,FrontCog,Frontières en cognition(2017), Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México = National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM), École normale supérieure - Paris (ENS-PSL), Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-École normale supérieure - Paris (ENS-PSL), and Normandie Université (NU)-Normandie Université (NU)-Université de Rennes (UR)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)
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Male ,0106 biological sciences ,Lineage (genetic) ,media_common.quotation_subject ,sex difference ,Vocal interaction ,010603 evolutionary biology ,01 natural sciences ,Competition (biology) ,Social life ,[SCCO]Cognitive science ,Agonistic behaviour ,Animals ,0501 psychology and cognitive sciences ,Conversation ,050102 behavioral science & comparative psychology ,Social Behavior ,Alouatta ,social coordination ,Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics ,media_common ,Free ranging ,[SDV.BA]Life Sciences [q-bio]/Animal biology ,05 social sciences ,Evolutionary biology ,platyrrhini ,Female ,Animal Science and Zoology ,vocal interaction ,Vocalization, Animal ,Psychology ,Social behavior - Abstract
International audience; Conversation rules such as overlap avoidance and coordinated overlap have been reported in nonhuman animals, and seem to be adaptive responses to the requirements of social life. Some species display both patterns in an apparently flexible way, but the social factors mediating their respective usage remain poorly documented. We investigated the potential social factors guiding the usage of these temporal rules during collective howling in six free-ranging groups of black howler monkeys (Alouatta pigra). First, we found that adult males' vocalizations rarely overlap those of other callers while most adult females' calls overlap other members' calls, especially that of other females. Second, whereas some call types (notably affiliative calls) are typically emitted without overlap, roars (agonistic loud calls) overlap more frequently. Third, coordinated overlap is more frequent during intergroup competition. Our findings support the hypothesis that overlap avoidance and coordinated overlap are two different (here sex-related) vocal alliance social behaviors, at least for some nonhuman primates. More comparative investigations are now needed to explore further their evolutionary trajectories in this lineage.
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- 2021