Contact Calls Facilitate Group Contraction in Free-Ranging Goats (Capra aegagrus hircus)

O'Bryan, Lisa R.; Abaid, Nicole; Nakayama, Shinnosuke; Dey, Tanujit; King, Andrew J.; Cowlishaw, Guy; Rubenstein, Daniel I.; Garnier, Simon

doi:10.3389/fevo.2019.00073

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“…Acoustic signals communicate that animals are “in need” of something, and vocalization is used to call for herd members [ 44 ], or to facilitate group contraction in goats [ 45 ], and thus has been used as a measure of acute distress in goat kids [ 46 , 47 ]. Hence, increased vocalization in goats during social isolation can be interpreted as a sign of fear or distress, and an adaptive attempt to communicate with flock mates.…”

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The Effect of Mother Goat Presence during Rearing on Kids’ Response to Isolation and to an Arena Test

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Animals

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The aim of the study was to examine how early permanent separation, separation during the day only, or full-time access to the mother goat affected goat kids during social isolation with a sudden sound of a dog bark at two weeks and two months, and a novel arena test with a novel object at two months. Kids permanently separated reduced their vocalization earlier and had a higher heart rate before and after dog bark during isolation at two weeks, no effect was found on the daytime separated kids. Daytime separated kids bleated more at two weeks and decreased heart rate after dog barking at two months. Daytime separated kids showed the strongest fear reaction in the arena test, no effect was found on the permanently separated kids. Kids separated early vocalized more before novel object and showed more explorative behavior afterwards. Our study shows different responses in goat kids separated early permanent, daytime separated, or kept full-time with mother, which demonstrates the importance of if and how the mother is present, and the impact of using a wide variety of physiological and behavioral measures when evaluating stress in animal welfare research.

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Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

The Effect of Mother Goat Presence during Rearing on Kids’ Response to Isolation and to an Arena Test

Walter

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Högberg

et al. 2021

Animals

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“…In addition, the effect team processes have on the progression of team outcomes in coordinate space could be examined by linking changes in the outcome's trajectory to features of team processes, such as the timing or intensity of communication behaviors. This approach is comparable to how the occurrences of vocalizations have been linked to changes in animal movement trajectories (Gall and Manser 2017;O'Bryan et al 2019).…”

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“…Progress in this area has been aided by new technological advances in data collection that enable the acquisition of precise spatiotemporal data on the behavior of many group members. Some examples of this technology include software that can characterize individual trajectories (Moussaïd et al 2010;Herbert-Read et al 2011) or poses (Graving et al 2019a) from video data and tracking devices that monitor the behavior, relative positions, and/or vocalizations of free-ranging animals (King et al 2012;O'Bryan et al 2019;King et al 2018;Fehlmann and King 2016).…”

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How Approaches to Animal Swarm Intelligence Can Improve the Study of Collective Intelligence in Human Teams

2020

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Researchers of team behavior have long been interested in the essential components of effective teamwork. Much existing research focuses on examining correlations between team member traits, team processes, and team outcomes, such as collective intelligence or team performance. However, these approaches are insufficient for providing insight into the dynamic, causal mechanisms through which the components of teamwork interact with one another and impact the emergence of team outcomes. Advances in the field of animal behavior have enabled a precise understanding of the behavioral mechanisms that enable groups to perform feats that surpass the capabilities of the individuals that comprise them. In this manuscript, we highlight how studies of animal swarm intelligence can inform research on collective intelligence in human teams. By improving the ability to obtain precise, time-varying measurements of team behaviors and outcomes and building upon approaches used in studies of swarm intelligence to analyze and model individual and group-level behaviors, researchers can gain insight into the mechanisms underlying the emergence of collective intelligence. Such understanding could inspire targeted interventions to improve team effectiveness and support the development of a comparative framework of group-level intelligence in animal and human groups.

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“…Goats are highly gregarious and make collective decisions about the nature and timing of their activities [ 29 , 30 ]. Preliminary observations of goat behaviour at the study site indicated the goats move and forage through a highly patchy (dry) riverbed, without observable consistencies in foraging patch choice.…”

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Consensus of travel direction is achieved by simple copying, not voting, in free-ranging goats

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For group-living animals to remain cohesive they must agree on where to travel. Theoretical models predict shared group decisions should be favoured, and a number of empirical examples support this. However, the behavioural mechanisms that underpin shared decision-making are not fully understood. Groups may achieve consensus of direction by active communication of individual preferences (i.e. voting), or by responding to each other's orientation and movement (i.e. copying). For example, African buffalo ( Syncerus caffer ) are reported to use body orientation to vote and indicate their preferred direction to achieve a consensus on travel direction, while golden shiners ( Notemigonus crysoleucas ) achieve consensus of direction by responding to the movement cues of their neighbours. Here, we present a conceptual model (supported by agent-based simulations) that allows us to distinguish patterns of motion that represent voting or copying. We test our model predictions using high-resolution GPS and magnetometer data collected from a herd of free-ranging goats ( Capra aegagrus hircus ) in the Namib Desert, Namibia. We find that decisions concerning travel direction were more consistent with individuals copying one another's motion and find no evidence to support the use of voting with body orientation. Our findings highlight the role of simple behavioural rules for collective decision-making by animal groups.

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Contact Calls Facilitate Group Contraction in Free-Ranging Goats (Capra aegagrus hircus)

Cited by 19 publications

References 41 publications

The Effect of Mother Goat Presence during Rearing on Kids’ Response to Isolation and to an Arena Test

The Effect of Mother Goat Presence during Rearing on Kids’ Response to Isolation and to an Arena Test

How Approaches to Animal Swarm Intelligence Can Improve the Study of Collective Intelligence in Human Teams

Consensus of travel direction is achieved by simple copying, not voting, in free-ranging goats

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