Development and transmission of alarm behaviors

警报行为的发展和传播

基本信息

批准号：
6693173
负责人：
ALBERTO R PALLERONI
金额：
$ 4.81万
依托单位：
HARVARD UNIVERSITY
依托单位国家：
美国
项目类别：
财政年份：
2003
资助国家：
美国
起止时间：
2003-06-01 至 2006-05-31
项目状态：
已结题

来源：
https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/6693173
关键词：
Aves Macaca mulatta animal communication behavior auditory discrimination behavioral /social science research tag escape reaction postdoctoral investigator predation size perception verbal behavior

项目摘要

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Predation represents a significant selective pressure in most naturally living species. In primates, in particular, we now know that predation has played an important role in social group structure as well as in the patterns of diurnal and nocturnal activity. Most of our understanding of predation pressure in primates, however, comes from either uncontrolled natural observations of predation events or from controlled playbacks of predator alarm calls. Researchers have rarely attempted to present predators to primate subjects, and most of these involve stuffed models or silhouettes. While a few studies involve presentation or tracking of real predators, none of these involved the use of aerial predators. Since aerial predation represents a significant selective pressure on both ground and tree-dwelling primates, it is important to investigate how primates respond to such predation. The goals of this project are to understand the acquisition, refinement, and transmission of alarm responses to aerial predators by presenting a well-studied population of free-ranging rhesus monkeys with trained raptors that pose, as a function of size and distance, different degrees of threat.

描述（由申请人提供）：捕食代表大多数天然生物物种的显着选择压力。特别是在灵长类动物中，我们现在知道捕食在社会群体结构以及昼夜活动和夜间活动的模式中发挥了重要作用。但是，我们对灵长类动物中捕食压力的大多数理解都来自对捕食事件的自然观察，或者来自捕食者警报调用的受控播放。研究人员很少试图向灵长类动物展示掠食者，其中大多数涉及填充的模型或轮廓。虽然一些研究涉及对真实捕食者的介绍或跟踪，但这些研究都不涉及空中捕食者的使用。由于空中捕食代表着地面和树木居住灵长类动物的显着选择压力，因此研究灵长类动物如何应对这种捕食非常重要。该项目的目标是通过向训练有素的猛禽呈现出良好的自由放养的恒河猴来了解对空中掠食者的收购，改进和传播，这些猛禽是大小和距离的函数，不同程度的威胁。