Call playback artificially generates a temporary cultural style of high affiliation in marmosets
Call playback artificially generates a temporary cultural style of high affiliation in marmosets
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通话回放人为地在狨猴身上产生了一种高度归属感的临时文化风格
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10.1016/j.anbehav.2014.04.027
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2014
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2.5
通讯作者:
Watson C
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Watson C
HighlightsClaims of cultural style in wild primates have yet to be substantiated experimentally.This is the first experimental study of within-species diffusion of cultural style.Call playback influenced marmosets to increase affiliation outside playback hours.Our findings indicate that playback initiated a temporary shift in cultural style.Supports cultural interpretation of between-group variation in behaviour rates.Cultural variation can be conceptualized in two main ways: as culture-specific qualitative differences in behavioural form, and also as quantitative variation in performance of constellations of universal behaviours (cultural style). Despite observation of both types in wild nonhuman primates, diffusion of qualitative culture has been scrutinized extensively experimentally while within-species transmission of cultural style has remained entirely unexplored. Here we investigated whether a cultural style of high affiliation could be artificially generated in a nonhuman primate (Callithrix jacchus), by daily playback of conspecific affiliative calls simulating nearby amicable individuals. We found that vocalization playback influenced monkeys to spend more time in affiliative behaviours outside playback hours, relative to silent playback. The effect was specific to affiliation, with no impact on other categories of affect. This change did not persist into the final phase of observation after all playbacks were complete. Findings are consistent with a temporary shift in cultural style effected through vocalization playback, supporting existence of this conception of culture in wild primates and indicating auditory social contagion as a potential diffusion mechanism. The method presented here will allow researchers to test hypotheses concerning cultural transmission of cultural style, and the underlying processes, across a range of contexts and species.
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发表时间:
2011
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影响因子:
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作者:
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通讯作者:
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影响因子:
3.3
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