Conversation Among Primate Species

Pougnault, Loïc; Levréro, Florence; Lemasson, Alban

doi:10.1007/978-981-15-4250-3_4

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“…As a result, overlap avoidance is probably a good strategy to facilitate group recognition and advertise the number of males willing to defend the territory. Also, males from a given group can defend different parts of the territory border (Stanford, 1998) but can lose sight of each other among the dense vegetation. Overlap avoidance can thus help coordinate intra‐group collective movements.…”

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“…In the last decade, several studies have described vocal interactions involving turn-taking rules and call overlap avoidance in a broad range of nonhuman primate species (new-world monkeys, Takahashi et al, 2015; old-world monkeys, Lemasson et al, 2010;Lemasson et al, 2011;apes, Levréro et al, 2019). These interactions mostly consist in (soft) contact call exchanges typically involving two to four individuals vocalizing in alternation ("antiphony" pattern), with an inter-call silence interval of up to five seconds ensuring overlap avoidance (review by Pougnault, Levréro, & Lemasson, 2020). These so-called "conversation-like" exchanges are used to strengthen social bonds and maintain socio-spatial cohesion (Chow et al, 2015;Pika et al, 2018;Pougnault, Levréro, & Lemasson, 2020;Snowdon, 2001).…”

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“…These interactions mostly consist in (soft) contact call exchanges typically involving two to four individuals vocalizing in alternation ("antiphony" pattern), with an inter-call silence interval of up to five seconds ensuring overlap avoidance (review by Pougnault, Levréro, & Lemasson, 2020). These so-called "conversation-like" exchanges are used to strengthen social bonds and maintain socio-spatial cohesion (Chow et al, 2015;Pika et al, 2018;Pougnault, Levréro, & Lemasson, 2020;Snowdon, 2001).…”

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“…Other patterns involve more or fewer occurrences of overlap between callers (Henry et al, 2015;Pougnault, Levréro, & Lemasson, 2020). In duets, for example, two individuals synchronize long series of calls or songs using both coordinated overlaps and overlap avoidances in a species-specific predictive way, mostly for mate attraction and guarding (Geissmann, 2002).…”

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“…According to Yoshida and Okanoya (2005), the evolutionary pathway suggests that overlap is more ancestral: overlap among several individuals (choruses) may have led to the emergence of overlap between two individuals (duets) and then to antiphony, under the influence of both natural and sexual selection pressures. However, a single species can regularly exhibit different patterns: in some cases, individuals can flexibly switch between different temporal organizations in a context-dependent way (Pougnault, Levréro, & Lemasson, 2020), suggesting that temporal patterns are different strategies used to broadcast motivations and regulate social interactions. For example, baboons emit within-group diurnal vocal antiphonies (Rendall et al, 2000) and choruses during group encounters notably at dawn (Kitchen et al, 2003).…”

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Socially mediated overlap in vocal interactions between free‐ranging black howler monkeys

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American J Primatol

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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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Social factors drive vocal exchanges in red-capped mangabeys (Cercocebus torquatus)

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Giacalone

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Of all the calls made by non-human primates, the function of short-distance contact calls has largely remained to be determined. These calls are the most frequent in the repertoire and are most often exchanged between individuals in a non-random way. To our knowledge, no study has ever examined how vocal exchanges are structured in red-capped mangabeys (Cercocebus torquatus), a semi-terrestrial monkey living in the African forest with a complex semi-tolerant/semi-despotic social system. Our goal was to assess the organization of contact call exchanges in this species and their relationship with individual and social factors such as age, affinity, and hierarchy. Therefore, we observed several captive groups of red-capped mangabeys and collected data on vocal behavior, as well as grooming, agonistic behavior and spatial proximity. We defined a vocal exchange in this species as a series of contact calls made by two or more individuals within a maximum inter-caller interval of two seconds. At the individual level, the higher the individual's hierarchical rank, the less they initiated exchanges.Furthermore, the most socially integrated individuals had a longer average response time than the less integrated ones. At the dyadic level, preferred exchange partners were individuals often observed near one other or individuals most distant in age. Also, the further apart two individuals were in the dominance hierarchy, the shorter the response time. Our results support both the social bonding hypothesis and a modulating key role of the dominance hierarchy on the social use of contact calls, which is in line with the social style of this species.

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A pilot study of calling patterns and vocal turn-taking in wild bonobos Pan paniscus

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Conversation Among Primate Species

Cited by 10 publications

References 141 publications

Socially mediated overlap in vocal interactions between free‐ranging black howler monkeys

Socially mediated overlap in vocal interactions between free‐ranging black howler monkeys

Social factors drive vocal exchanges in red-capped mangabeys (Cercocebus torquatus)

A pilot study of calling patterns and vocal turn-taking in wild bonobos Pan paniscus

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