Degree of social contact affects the emission of food calls in the common marmoset ( Callithrix jacchus )
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 19386552 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Augusto Vitale (0000-0001-8078-3831, Istituto Superiore di Sanità, corresponding author), Michela Zanzoni (Istituto Superiore di Sanità), Armelle Queyras (Istituto Superiore di Sanità), Flavia Chiarotti (0000-0003-0084-6914, Istituto Superiore di Sanità) |
| Year | 2003 |
| Volume | 59 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 21-28 |
| Publication date | 2003-01-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | American Journal of Primatology (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0275-2565 • E-ISSN: 1098-2345 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1002/ajp.10060 |
| PMID | 12526036 |
| OpenAlex | W1988072800 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 4 |
| References cited | 15 |
The aim of this study was to investigate whether the emission of food calls in common marmosets ( Callithrix jacchus ) is influenced by different social contexts. Food calls are emitted by this species only in the presence of preferred food. If these calls have any communicative function, it may be that individuals produce food calls in order to call family mates toward the food source. If this is the case, the number of calls produced should vary in accordance with the number of family mates present at the moment of the discovery of the food, i.e., the fewer family mates nearby, the more food calls are emitted. This hypothesis was tested with five pairs of common marmosets, by recording the number of food calls emitted in four experimental conditions: 1) isolation: completely isolated from the family mates; 2) visual isolation: separated by a wooden panel from the family mates; 3) visual contact: separated by a wire‐mesh from the family mates; and 4) physical interaction: together with the family mates. The results show that the proportion of intervals during which food calls were produced by the pairs was significantly different in the four experimental conditions. It decreased from the isolation and visual isolation condition, through the visual contact condition, reaching the lowest value in the physical interaction condition. The variation observed in the proportion of intervals during which food calls were emitted, in relation to different social contexts, is an indication in favor of the communicative function of this vocalization. Am. J. Primatol. 59:21–28, 2003. © 2003 Wiley‐Liss, Inc
Biology · Callithrix · Marmoset · Social contact · Social relation · Zoology · Animal Behavior and Reproduction · Animal Vocal Communication and Behavior · Communication · Primate Behavior and Ecology · Psychology · Social Psychology · Ecology
| Citations per year | 0.24 |
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| Citation span | 2009 - 2018 (10) |
| Highly cited | No |