The sensory ecology of primate food perception

Dominy, Nathaniel J.; Lucas, Peter W.; Osorio, Daniel; Yamashita, Nayuta

doi:10.1002/evan.1031

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“…Spatial memory is widespread among mammals, and is shared by most, if not all, primates (e.g., Garber and Hannon 1993;Gibeault and MacDonald 2000;Janson 1998;MacDonald and Wilkie 1990;Menzel and Juno 1985;Platt et al 1996). Although little is known about the role of olfaction in primate ecology [but see Dominy et al (2001) and Heymann (2006) for reviews of what is known], lemurs appear to use visual cues to remember the locations of parked infants, sleeping nests, and feeding sites (Kappeler 2000).…”

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A socioecological perspective on primate cognition, past and present

Cunningham

Janson

2007

Anim Cogn

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The papers in this special issue examine the relationship between social and ecological cognition in primates. We refer to the intersection of these two domains as socioecological cognition. Examples of socioecological cognition include socially learned predator alarm calls and socially sensitive foraging decisions. In this review we consider how primate cognition may have been shaped by the interaction of social and ecological inXuences in their evolutionary history. The ability to remember distant, out-of-sight locations is an ancient one, shared by many mammals and widespread among primates. It seems some monkeys and apes have evolved the ability to form more complex representations of resources, integrating "what-where-how much" information. This ability allowed anthropoids to live in larger, more cohesive groups by minimizing competition for limited resources between group members. As group size increased, however, competition for resources also increased, selecting for enhanced social skills. Enhanced social skills in turn made a more sophisticated relationship to the environment possible. The interaction of social and ecological inXuences created a spiraling eVect in the evolution of primate intelligence. In contrast, lemurs may not have evolved the ability to form complex representations which would allow them to consider the size and location of resources. This lack in lemur ecological cognition may restrict the size of frugivorous lemur social groups, thereby limiting the complexity of lemur social life. In this special issue, we have brought together two review papers, Wve Weld studies, and one laboratory study to investigate the interaction of social and ecological factors in relation to foraging. Our goal is to stimulate research that considers social and ecological factors acting together on cognitive evolution, rather than in isolation. Cross fertilization of experimental and observational studies from captivity and the Weld is important for increasing our understanding of this relationship.

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A socioecological perspective on primate cognition, past and present

Cunningham

Janson

2007

Anim Cogn

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“…The influence of the sensory drive hypothesis on animal sensory performance is likely to be important outside the context of mate choice, especially in regard to such activities as the detection of predators or the procurement of food, but this line of research has barely been explored (but see Dicke and Grostal 2001 for the chemical detection of natural enemies by arthropods; Neuweiler 1989 for the role of hearing in bat foraging ecology; Dominy et al 2001 andRegan et al 2001 for the perception of visible light by primates to assess the edibility of food items). Dangles et al (2005) quantified the natural phenotypic variation in structure and performance of the air-flow sensing cercal system in five cricket populations from diverse habitats and predator communities.…”

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Variability in Sensory Ecology: Expanding the Bridge Between Physiology and Evolutionary Biology

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et al. 2009

The Quarterly Review of Biology

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“…Detailed analyses of opsin light-frequency sensitivities have shown the functional value or adaptive use of color vision by various vertebrates, including primates for whom color vision is valuable for finding fruit in dappled forest visual backgrounds (Dominy et al, 2001;Heesy and Ross, 2001;Jacobs, 1995;Mollon, 1989). However, such explanations essentially equate present function with past natural selection and this can require ad hoc contortions.…”

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How the eye got its brain

Weiss¹

2002

Evolutionary Anthropology

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The sensory ecology of primate food perception

Cited by 218 publications

References 146 publications

A socioecological perspective on primate cognition, past and present

A socioecological perspective on primate cognition, past and present

Variability in Sensory Ecology: Expanding the Bridge Between Physiology and Evolutionary Biology

How the eye got its brain

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