Scent-marking behavior in wild groups of common marmosets ( Callithrix jacchus )

Lazaro-Perea, Cristina; Snowdon, Charles T.; Arruda, Maria de Fátima

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“…In captive marmosets and tamarins, odours from reproductive females suppress ovulation in other females, providing a mechanism that could limit reproduction to a single female in a group (Epple & Katz 1984;Savage et al 1988;Barrett et al 1990). Although not reproductively active in the context of the family unit, subordinate females in the wild will scent mark at higher rates than reproductive females, particularly at territorial boundaries (Lazaro-Perea et al 1999).…”

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“…Social odours may play an important role in the evaluation of potential mates. Lazaro-Perea et al (1999) studied the patterns of scent marking in wild groups of common marmosets and found that scent marking occurred in a variety of contexts in addition to the expected marking of territorial boundaries and food resources.…”

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Social odours, sexual arousal and pairbonding in primates

Snowdon

Ziegler

Schultz-Darken³

et al. 2006

Phil. Trans. R. Soc. B

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We describe the role of social odours in sexual arousal and maintaining pairbonds in biparental and cooperatively breeding primates. Social odours are complex chemical mixtures produced by an organism that can simultaneously provide information about species, kinship, sex, individuality and reproductive state. They are long lasting and have advantages over other modalities. Both sexes are sensitive to changes in odours over the reproductive cycle and experimental disruption of signals can lead to altered sexual behaviour within a pair. We demonstrate, using functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI), that social odours indicating reproductive state directly influence the brain areas responsible for sexual behaviour. Social odours also influence other brain areas typically involved in motivation, memory and decision making, suggesting that these signals have more complex functions in primates than mere sexual arousal. We demonstrate a rapid link between social odours and neuroendocrine responses that are modulated by a male's social status. Recent work on humans shows similar responses to social odours. We conclude with an integration of the importance of social odours on sexual arousal and maintaining pairbonds in socially biparental and cooperatively breeding species, suggesting new research directions to integrate social behaviour, neural activation and neuroendocrine responses.

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Section: The Role Of Social Odours In Marmosets and Tamarinsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Social odours, sexual arousal and pairbonding in primates

Snowdon

Ziegler

Schultz-Darken³

et al. 2006

Phil. Trans. R. Soc. B

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“…Hypotheses on the function of scent marking in callitrichines 1 are almost exclusively derived from captive studies [for review, see 21], but tests of these hypotheses in the field remain scarce. No evidence for a territorial function of scent marking was found in studies on Callithrix flaviceps, Callithrix jacchus, and Saguinus mystax [24][25][26]. Comparative tests of functional hypotheses are inhibited by the lack of even basic quantitative data (e.g., relative frequency of different types of scent marking); interspecific comparisons to date have, therefore, been mainly qualitative [20].…”

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Interspecific Variation of Scent-Marking Behaviour in Wild Tamarins, Saguinus mystax and Saguinus fuscicollis

Heymann¹

2002

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The scent-marking behaviour of sympatric moustached, Saguinus mystax, and saddle-back tamarins, Saguinus fuscicollis, was compared in order to explore interspecific differences and potential sources of variation. The author examined basic patterns of scent marking (types, intensity, complexity), substrate use (type, orientation, height), and social patterning of scent marking in three groups of S. mystax and one group of S. fuscicollis at the Estación Biológica Quebrada Blanco, Peruvian Amazonia. S. mystax and S. fuscicollis differed significantly in the relative frequency of different types, and in the intensity and complexity of scent marking. Only S. fuscicollis showed allomarking. They also differed significantly in the type, orientation and height of substrates used for scent marking which corresponded to general differences in substrate use. In S. fuscicollis, but very rarely in S. mystax, two or more group members marked the same site sequentially or simultaneously. ‘Collective scent marking’, i.e. simultaneous scent marking by most or all group members, occurred only in S. fuscicollis. Since both tamarin species live sympatrically in mixed-species groups, ecological factors are unlikely to account for the differences found in scent-marking behaviour (except for differences in substrate use). They probably relate to as yet unknown differences in social and reproductive strategies of the two species.

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“…For example, there is ample anatomical evidence in the form of scent glands as well as behavioral evidence of animals responding to urine and scent marks left by conspecifics (Epple, 1974;Uenor 1994aUenor , 1994bUenor , 1994cSmith et al, 1997;Lazaro-Perea et al, 1999). Though it has yet to be tested systematically, these behaviors are likely to depend on the VNS and are probably mediated via pheromones.…”

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“…Scent delivered via scent marks or urine may also be used in the recognition of conspecifics (Laska and Hudson, 1995), to communicate dominance, mediate interactions among individuals of different ranks (Epple et al, 1986), and may be important in interactions between infants and other group members (Kaplan and Russell, 1974;Epple et al, 1986), as well as in infant-mother bonding (Kaplan et al, 1979). Scent also appears to be important in territorial defense, in intergroup relations, and for maintaining intergroup spacing (Epple, 1974;Ueno, 1994bUeno, , 1994cSmith et al, 1997;Lazaro-Perea et al, 1999), as well as for the discrimination of food items (Ueno, 1994a).…”

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Olfactory fossa of Tremacebus harringtoni (platyrrhini, early Miocene, Sacanana, Argentina): Implications for activity pattern

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CT imaging was undertaken on the skull of ϳ 20-Myr-old Miocene Tremacebus harringtoni. Here we report our observations on the relative size of the olfactory fossa and its implications for the behavior of Tremacebus. The endocranial surface of Tremacebus is incomplete, making precise estimate of brain size and olfactory fossa size imprecise. However, olfactory fossa breadth and maximum endocranial breadth measured from CT images of one catarrhine species and eight platyrrhine species for which volumes of the olfactory bulb and brain are known show that the osteological proxies give a reasonably accurate indication of relative olfactory bulb size. Nocturnal Aotus has the largest relative olfactory fossa breadth and the largest olfactory bulb volume compared to brain volume among extant anthropoids. Tremacebus had a much smaller olfactory fossa breadth and, by inference, bulb volumewithin the range of our sample of diurnal anthropoids. Variations in the relative size of the olfactory bulbs in platyrrhines appear to relate to the importance of olfaction in daily behaviors. Aotus has the largest olfactory bulbs among platyrrhines and relies more on olfactory cues when foraging than Cebus, Callicebus, or Saguinus. As in other examples of nocturnal versus diurnal primates, nocturnality may have been the environmental factor that selected for this difference in Aotus, although communication and other behaviors are also likely to select for olfactory variation in diurnal anthropoids. Considering the olfactory fossa size of Tremacebus, olfactory ability of this Miocene monkey was probably not as sensitive as in Aotus and counts against the hypothesis that Tremacebus was nocturnal. This finding accords well with previous observations that the orbits of Tremacebus are not as large as nocturnal Aotus. © 2004 Wiley-Liss, Inc.Key words: nocturnality; olfaction; Platyrrhini; Anthropoidea; Miocene Among extant Anthropoidea, the platyrrhine Aotus stands apart as the only wholly or partially nocturnal species (Wright, 1996). Anatomical and genetic evidence from the visual system suggests that crown Anthropoidea were diurnal and that the nocturnal habits of Aotus are secondarily acquired (Martin, 1973(Martin, , 1979(Martin, , 1990Cartmill, 1980;Jacobs et al., 1996;Ross, 1996Ross, , 2000. The antiquity of the diurnal to nocturnal transition in Aotus is not well understood. A key anatomical marker for nocturnality is an enlarged orbit. Nocturnal primates in general have relatively large orbits but nocturnal haplorhines (Tarsius and Aotus) have comparatively enormous ones, proportionately larger than nocturnal strepsirrhines of comparable size

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Scent-marking behavior in wild groups of common marmosets ( Callithrix jacchus )

Cited by 100 publications

References 52 publications

Social odours, sexual arousal and pairbonding in primates

Social odours, sexual arousal and pairbonding in primates

Interspecific Variation of Scent-Marking Behaviour in Wild Tamarins, Saguinus mystax and Saguinus fuscicollis

Olfactory fossa of Tremacebus harringtoni (platyrrhini, early Miocene, Sacanana, Argentina): Implications for activity pattern

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