VOCAL COMMUNICATION IN A WILD PRIMATE SPECIES

野生灵长类动物的声音交流

• 批准号: 7958743
• 负责人: Charles T. Snowdon
• 金额: $ 4.68万
• 依托单位: UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN-MADISON
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2009
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2009-05-01 至 2010-04-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/7958743
• 关键词: Accounting; Callithrix; Cebuella; Communication; Computer Retrieval of Information on Scientific Projects Database; Development; Ecuador; Exudate; Funding; Grant; Habitats; Human; Individual Differences; Infant; Information Services; Institution; Intervention; Learning; Libraries; Measurement; Monkeys; Noise; Population; Population Study; Primates; Publications; Reporting; Research; Research Personnel; Resources; Source; Structure; Trees; United States National Institutes of Health; Variant; Wisconsin; feeding; nonhuman primate; preference; social; sound; vocalization

This subproject is one of many research subprojects utilizing the resources provided by a Center grant funded by NIH/NCRR. The subproject and investigator (PI) may have received primary funding from another NIH source, and thus could be represented in other CRISP entries. The institution listed is for the Center, which is not necessarily the institution for the investigator. Objective: To study population differences in vocal communication and vocal development in wild pygmy marmosets (Cebuella pygmaea). There has been little evidence of vocal plasticity in nonhuman primate calls. However, investigators of vocal communication in wild primates have rarely studied more than one population and thus potential differences in vocalization may not be evident. We are studying five populations of pygmy marmosets in the upper Amazon basin in Eastern Ecuador. We have found significant differences in the structure of long calls and trills in each population, after correcting for individual differences. This is the first evidence of variability in vocal structure in non-provisioned monkeys (ruling out human intervention as a source of change). We have also made detailed measurements of environmental noise and how sounds are degraded in each of the habitats and have found that some of the differences in call structure can be related to habitat differences. We have also found population variation in the species of trees used for exudate feeding and can refute several ecological hypotheses for this variation. This suggests that social learning may account for population differences in exudate feeding preferences. In addition, we are studying the "babbling" of young infant marmosets to learn more about vocal development, and we are studying predator alarm calls. This research used WNPRC Library and Information Services. Funding ended before this reporting period; a publication has resulted.

该子项目是利用该技术的众多研究子项目之一 资源由 NIH/NCRR 资助的中心拨款提供。子项目和 研究者 (PI) 可能已从 NIH 的另一个来源获得主要资金， 因此可以在其他 CRISP 条目中表示。列出的机构是 中心，不一定是研究者的机构。 目的：研究野生侏儒狨猴（Cebuella pygmaea）声音交流和声音发育的种群差异。 几乎没有证据表明非人类灵长类动物的叫声具有声音可塑性。然而，野生灵长类动物声音交流的研究人员很少研究多个种群，因此发声方面的潜在差异可能并不明显。我们正在研究厄瓜多尔东部亚马逊盆地上游的五个侏儒狨猴种群。在校正个体差异后，我们发现每个群体的长叫声和颤音结构存在显着差异。这是未提供食物的猴子声音结构变异的第一个证据（排除了人类干预作为变化来源的可能性）。我们还对环境噪音以及每个栖息地的声音退化情况进行了详细测量，并发现呼叫结构的一些差异可能与栖息地差异有关。我们还发现了用于分泌物取食的树木种类的种群差异，并且可以反驳这种差异的几种生态假设。这表明社会学习可能解释了渗出液喂养偏好的人群差异。此外，我们正在研究幼年狨猴的“牙牙学语”，以了解更多有关声音发育的信息，并且我们正在研究捕食者的警报叫声。本研究使用了 WNPRC 图书馆和信息服务。 资助在本报告期之前结束；结果已出版。