TY - JOUR
T1 - Antiphonal responses to loud contact calls produced by Saguinus oedipus
AU - Jordan, Kerry
AU - Weiss, Daniel
AU - Hauser, Marc
AU - McMurray, Bob
N1 - Funding Information:
The research was funded by the Harvard College Research Program and the Mind/Brain/Behavior Summer Thesis Research Grant Program to K. Jordan. The original tamarin colony was provided by the New England Regional Primate Center (PHS-P51RR00168-36). For help in running the experiments, we thank E.Chuang, C. MacMillan and R. Ruttledge.
PY - 2004/4
Y1 - 2004/4
N2 - We report the results of an experiment designed to investigate whether captive cotton-top tamarins (Saguinus oedipus) selectively call back to an absent cagemate. We removed 2 individuals living in separate cages (cycling through the colony so that each individual was removed 10 times) from the homeroom and played back calls produced by one of them. The caller's cagemate, residing in the homeroom, was more likely to be the first individual to call back antiphonally than any other individual in the colony was. In support of previous work using both habituation-discrimination and phonotaxic techniques, our results show that cotton-top tamarins can recognize cagemates and possibly individuals by voice alone, and that the antiphonal playback method provides yet another tool for investigating acoustic perception in nonhuman primates.
AB - We report the results of an experiment designed to investigate whether captive cotton-top tamarins (Saguinus oedipus) selectively call back to an absent cagemate. We removed 2 individuals living in separate cages (cycling through the colony so that each individual was removed 10 times) from the homeroom and played back calls produced by one of them. The caller's cagemate, residing in the homeroom, was more likely to be the first individual to call back antiphonally than any other individual in the colony was. In support of previous work using both habituation-discrimination and phonotaxic techniques, our results show that cotton-top tamarins can recognize cagemates and possibly individuals by voice alone, and that the antiphonal playback method provides yet another tool for investigating acoustic perception in nonhuman primates.
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U2 - 10.1023/B:IJOP.0000019162.31244.88
DO - 10.1023/B:IJOP.0000019162.31244.88
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:16544376852
SN - 0164-0291
VL - 25
SP - 465
EP - 475
JO - International Journal of Primatology
JF - International Journal of Primatology
IS - 2
ER -