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AFRICAN RESEARCH NEXUS
SHINING A SPOTLIGHT ON AFRICAN RESEARCH
agricultural and biological sciences
The alarm call system of female Campbell's monkeys
Animal Behaviour, Volume 78, No. 1, Year 2009
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Description
Field studies on male forest guenon alarm-calling behaviour have revealed a number of intricacies about how these primates use vocalizations to protect themselves from predation. In these species, the vocal behaviour of adult females is often different from that of the males, but little systematic work has been done. Here, we describe the alarm call system of female Campbell's monkeys, Cercopithecus campbelli, in their natural forest habitat in western Ivory Coast. We found that in response to disturbing events, females produced three basic alarm call types, 'wak-oos', 'hoks' and acoustically variable 'trill' calls, consisting of repeated and rapidly ascending (RRA) pulses, which varied systematically in the temporal and frequency domains. Using observational and experimental data we were able to demonstrate that the RRA calls consisted of four acoustic variants, which could be associated with specific contexts, allowing listeners to draw inferences about the type of disturbance experienced by the caller. We also compared the alarm call behaviour of free-ranging individuals with published results from captivity. As predicted, captive individuals failed to produce predator-specific alarm calls, but they also produced an RRA variant in response to humans that was absent in the wild. We discuss the relevance of these findings in terms of their broader potential impact on evolutionary theories of primate communication. © 2009 The Association for the Study of Animal Behaviour.
Authors & Co-Authors
Ouattara, Karim
France, Rennes
Ethos - Ethologie Animale et Humaine
Cote D'ivoire
Taï Monkey Project
Cote D'ivoire, Abidjan
Université de Cocody-abidjan
France, Rennes
Université Rennes 2
Zuberbühler, Klaus
Cote D'ivoire
Taï Monkey Project
United Kingdom, St Andrews
University of st Andrews
N'Goran, Eliézer Kouakou
Cote D'ivoire, Abidjan
Université de Cocody-abidjan
Gombert, Jean Emile
France, Rennes
Université Rennes 2
Lemasson, Alban
France, Rennes
Ethos - Ethologie Animale et Humaine
Statistics
Citations: 66
Authors: 5
Affiliations: 5
Identifiers
Doi:
10.1016/j.anbehav.2009.03.014
ISSN:
00033472
Study Locations
Ivory Coast
Participants Gender
Male
Female