Social Conventions in Wild White‐faced Capuchin Monkeys
Social Conventions in Wild White‐faced Capuchin Monkeys
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野生白脸卷尾猴的社会习俗
作者：
S. Perry;Mary Baker;L. Fedigan;J. Gros;Katherine Jack;Katherine C. Mackinnon;J. Manson;M. Panger;K. Pyle;Lisa M. Rose
10名研究人员合作进行了一项关于野生白面卷尾猴社会习俗的长期研究，包括检查19,000小时的综合数据集，这些数据集在哥斯达黎加的4个研究地点收集了13个社会群体13年的时间。根据这项研究的标准，五种行为模式被认为是社会传统：嗅手、吮吸身体部位和三种游戏。有些公约是在多个地点以几乎相同的形式独立发明的。在研究过程中，观察到若干公约已经消失;这些公约似乎很少持续超过十年。据推测，这些猴子正在使用这些群体或集团特定的社会习俗来测试他们的社会关系的质量。
Ten researchers collaborated in a longterm study of social conventions in wild whitefaced capuchin monkeys, involving examination of a 19,000hour combined data set collected on 13 social groups at four study sites in Costa Rica over a 13year period. Five behavior patterns qualified as social traditions, according to the studys criteria: handsniffing, sucking of body parts, and three types of games. Some conventions were independently invented in virtually identical form at multiple sites. The extinction of several conventions was observed during the course of the study; it appears that they rarely last longer than ten years. It is hypothesized that the monkeys are using these group or cliquespecific social conventions to test the quality of their social relationships.