How life in a tolerant society affects the usage of grunts: evidence from female and male Guinea baboons

Faraut, Lauriane; Siviter, Harry; Pesco, Federica Dal; Fischer, Julia

doi:10.1016/j.anbehav.2019.05.003

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“…This suggests that the structure of vocal patterns is highly conserved. Because species vary in their aggressiveness and their propensity to affiliate, they also differ in the frequency with which they use signals that either relate to fighting ability or "benign intent", respectively (Faraut et al, 2019; Fischer et al, 2017).…”

Section: Variation In Social Organization and Behaviormentioning

confidence: 99%

Insights into the evolution of social systems and species from baboon studies

Fischer

Higham

Alberts

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Baboons, members of the genus Papio, comprise six closely related species distributed throughout sub-Saharan Africa and southwest Arabia. The species exhibit more ecological flexibility and a wider range of social systems than many other primates. This article summarizes our current knowledge of the natural history of baboons and highlights directions for future research. We suggest that baboons can serve as a valuable model for complex evolutionary processes, such as speciation and hybridization. The evolution of baboons has been heavily shaped by climatic changes and population expansion and fragmentation in the African savanna environment, similar to the processes that acted during human evolution. With accumulating long-term data, and new data from previously understudied species, baboons are ideally suited for investigating the links between sociality, health, longevity and reproductive success. To achieve these aims, we propose a closer integration of studies at the proximate level, including functional genomics, with behavioral and ecological studies.

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Insights into the evolution of social systems and species from baboon studies

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“…By contrast, small-scale studies suggest dominance style may have a negative or no relationship with vocal repertoire size [ 17 , 21 , 24 ]. There is, however, some indication that greater tolerance is linked to lower vocal usage [ 17 ], to greater structural complexity [ 25 ] and differential patterns of acoustic similarity between dyads in macaques [ 19 ], and to the patterns and contexts of the use of specific vocal types in baboons [ 20 , 24 ]. However, these studies included only between two and eleven primate species, generally within a single genus, and typically only considered a single level of analysis.…”

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“…Understanding communication in non-human primates (henceforth 'primates') is particularly important for informing theories of language evolution due to their close phylogenetic relationship to humans [3,4], thus previous studies and ours have focussed on the primate order. A few existing studies have attempted to examine how dominance style relates to communication use and repertoires, finding mixed results [17][18][19][20][21][22][23][24][25]. Tolerance within the macaque genus may be related to larger facial and gestural repertoires [18,22,23].…”

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Dominance style is a key predictor of vocal use and evolution across nonhuman primates

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Animal communication has long been thought to be subject to pressures and constraints associated with social relationships. However, our understanding of how the nature and quality of social relationships relates to the use and evolution of communication is limited by a lack of directly comparable methods across multiple levels of analysis. Here, we analysed observational data from 111 wild groups belonging to 26 non-human primate species, to test how vocal communication relates to dominance style (the strictness with which a dominance hierarchy is enforced, ranging from ‘despotic’ to ‘tolerant’). At the individual-level, we found that dominant individuals who were more tolerant vocalized at a higher rate than their despotic counterparts. This indicates that tolerance within a relationship may place pressure on the dominant partner to communicate more during social interactions. At the species-level, however, despotic species exhibited a larger repertoire of hierarchy-related vocalizations than their tolerant counterparts. Findings suggest primate signals are used and evolve in tandem with the nature of interactions that characterize individuals' social relationships.

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“…How should we interpret this body of research? The data consistently suggest that baboon grunts signal benign intent, and relative to this claim the Silk et al (2018) and Faraut et al (2019) studies can be considered replications of Cheney et al (1995), despite not being labelled as such (Machery, 2020;Nosek & Errington, 2020). However, our certainty in this claim should be modulated by a quality and bias assessment of the previous studies: how strong a test of the claim was each study, and how likely is it that the body of research has been affected by publication bias, or spin?…”

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Replication and Reproducibility in Primate Cognition Research

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Krupenye²,

Motes-Rodrigo³

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Replication is an important tool used to test and develop scientific theories. Areas of biomedical and psychological research have experienced a replication crisis, in which many published findings failed to replicate. Following this, many other scientific disciplines have been interested in the robustness of their own findings. This chapter examines replication in primate cognitive studies. First, it discusses the frequency and success of replication studies in primate cognition and explores the challenges researchers face when designing and interpreting replication studies across the wide range of research designs used across the field. Next, it discusses the type of research that can probe the robustness of published findings, especially when replication studies are difficult to perform. The chapter concludes with a discussion of different roles that replication can have in primate cognition research.

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How life in a tolerant society affects the usage of grunts: evidence from female and male Guinea baboons

Cited by 17 publications

References 47 publications

Insights into the evolution of social systems and species from baboon studies

Insights into the evolution of social systems and species from baboon studies

Dominance style is a key predictor of vocal use and evolution across nonhuman primates

Replication and Reproducibility in Primate Cognition Research

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