Immediate, but no delayed, behavioral response to a snake model by captive black tufted-ear marmosets

Cagni, Priscila; Sampaio, Ana Cristhina; Ribeiro, Natália B.; Barros, Marília

doi:10.1016/j.beproc.2011.04.002

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“…Fear of snakes has been widely exploited in tests of anxiety both in humans and non-human primates (Öhman and Mineka, 2001). In marmosets, snakes are known to be their principle predators (Correa and Coutinho, 1997), and both captive-born and wild animals are known to exhibit a wide variety of emotive and defensive behaviors in their presence (Barros et al, 2002; Cross and Rogers, 2006; Clara et al, 2008; Cagni et al, 2011). In the present study the snake was presented in the animal's home cage environment surrounded by other conspecifics maximizing the ethological validity of the test.…”

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Individual differences in behavioral and cardiovascular reactivity to emotive stimuli and their relationship to cognitive flexibility in a primate model of trait anxiety

Shiba

Santangelo

Braesicke

et al. 2014

Front. Behav. Neurosci.

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High trait anxiety is a risk factor for the development of anxiety disorders. Like the disorders themselves high trait anxiety has marked phenotypic variation at the level of symptomatology and neural circuits, suggesting that there may be different symptoms and distinct neural circuits associated with risk for these disorders. To address these issues, it is essential to develop reliable animal models of trait anxiety in a non-human primate whose brain bears structural and functional similarity to humans. The present study investigated individual variation in responsivity to fearful and anxiety provoking stimuli in the common marmoset monkey. Seven out of 27 animals failed to display discriminative, conditioned cardiovascular and behavioral responses on an auditory fear discrimination task, similar to that seen in high anxious humans and rodents. Their heightened emotionality to a rubber snake was consistent with the hypothesis that they were high in trait-like anxiety. Evidence for phenotypic variation in the high anxiety group was provided by the finding that discrimination failure was predicted early in conditioning by either hyper-vigilant scanning to the cues or a reduction in blood pressure to the context, i.e., test apparatus. Given that high trait anxiety in humans can be associated with altered prefrontal cognitive functioning and previously we implicated the marmoset anterior orbitofrontal (antOFC) and ventrolateral prefrontal cortex (vlPFC) in negative emotion regulation, we also tested the marmosets on two tests of cognitive flexibility differentially dependent on these two regions. While the high anxious group did not differ overall in their perseverative performance, the two distinct phenotypes were differentially correlated with reduced perseverative responding on the OFC- and vlPFC-dependent flexibility tests. Together, this study provides a new model of trait anxiety in marmosets amenable to analysis of phenotypic variation and neural circuitry.

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“…A short and loud “tsik” sound. It has been reported as an alarm/mobbing call (Cross and Rogers, 2006; Bezerra and Souto, 2008; Clara et al, 2008; Cagni et al, 2011). …”

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Individual differences in behavioral and cardiovascular reactivity to emotive stimuli and their relationship to cognitive flexibility in a primate model of trait anxiety

Shiba

Santangelo

Braesicke

et al. 2014

Front. Behav. Neurosci.

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“…The snake was hidden under the floor bedding and pulled out slowly through the cage until it exited from a small hole in the front door (“Snake”). Pilot trials on other subjects indicated that the marmosets respond to the snake with a fearful reaction3839 and (ii) a large, plastic, black silhouette of a generic raptor attached to a rope system above the outdoor enclosures (“Bird”). We simulated the bird flying over the home enclosure twice with ca.…”

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Common marmosets show social plasticity and group-level similarity in personality

Koski

Burkart

2015

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The social environment influences animal personality on evolutionary and immediate time scales. However, studies of animal personality rarely assess the effects of the social environment, particularly in species that live in stable groups with individualized relationships. We assessed personality experimentally in 17 individuals of the common marmoset, living in four groups. We found their personality to be considerably modified by the social environment. Marmosets exhibited relatively high plasticity in their behaviour, and showed ‘group-personality’, i.e. group-level similarity in the personality traits. In exploratory behaviour this was maintained only in the social environment but not when individuals were tested alone, suggesting that exploration tendency is subjected to social facilitation. Boldness, in contrast, showed higher consistency across the social and solitary conditions, and the group-level similarity in trait scores was sustained also outside of the immediate social environment. The ‘group-personality’ was not due to genetic relatedness, supporting that it was produced by social effects. We hypothesize that ‘group-personality’ may be adaptive for highly cooperative animals through facilitating cooperation among individuals with similar behavioural tendency.

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“…Although relatively little research uses primate antipredator behaviors for identifying when species are adversely affected by HIREC, we located a set of highly relevant studies focused on primate–predator interactions and antipredator behaviors. Their approaches included using antipredator behavior to gauge hunting pressure (Bshary, ; Croes et al, ; Papworth et al, ), to investigate how primates deal with fear of (potentially lethal) conflict with humans (Bryson‐Morrison et al, ; Fehlmann et al, ; Lindshield et al, ; Mikula et al, ), and/or to assess whether predator‐naïve primates could discern whether an animal was dangerous (Cagni et al, ; Friant et al, ; Gil‐da‐Costa, ; Gil‐da‐Costa et al, ; Sündermann et al, ). Data on primate habitat use and risk‐sensitive behaviors were also used to assess whether perceived risk varied between more natural or human‐modified habitats (Nowak, Hill, et al, ; Nowak et al, ) and whether primates tended to avoid areas where native or exotic predators spent more time (Farris et al, ).…”

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“…Coupling behavioral data with information on predator diets through scat analysis can also be useful for identifying predation by elusive carnivores that may be difficult to observe (Brockman, Godfrey, Dollar & Ratsirarson, 2008;Irwin et al, 2009). Field experiments using sensory cues from human hunters can indicate whether groups are subjected to hunting (Cagni, Sampaio, Ribeiro & Barros, 2011) without requiring habituation to observers. Responses to experimental predator cues can additionally indicate whether predatornaïve primates recognize dangerous cues before a reintroduction program (Gil-da-Costa, Palleroni, Hauser, Touchton, & Kelley, 2003).…”

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Anthropogenic influences on primate antipredator behavior and implications for research and conservation

LaBarge

Hill

Berman

et al. 2020

American J Primatol

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Predation risk affects prey species' behavior, even in the absence of a direct threat, but human‐induced environmental change may disturb ecologically significant predator–prey interactions. Here, we propose various ways in which knowledge of antipredator tactics, behavioral risk effects, and primate–predator interactions could assist in identifying human‐caused disruption to natural systems. Using behavior to evaluate primate responses to the ongoing environmental change should be a potentially effective way to make species conservation more predictive by identifying issues before a more dramatic population declines. A key challenge here is that studies of predation on primates often use data collected via direct observations of habituated animals and human presence can deter carnivores and influence subjects' perception of risk. Hence, we also review various indirect data collection methods to evaluate their effectiveness in identifying where environmental change threatens wild species, while also minimizing observer bias.

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Immediate, but no delayed, behavioral response to a snake model by captive black tufted-ear marmosets

Cited by 9 publications

References 39 publications

Individual differences in behavioral and cardiovascular reactivity to emotive stimuli and their relationship to cognitive flexibility in a primate model of trait anxiety

Individual differences in behavioral and cardiovascular reactivity to emotive stimuli and their relationship to cognitive flexibility in a primate model of trait anxiety

Common marmosets show social plasticity and group-level similarity in personality

Anthropogenic influences on primate antipredator behavior and implications for research and conservation

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