Chimpanzee food calls are directed at specific individuals
Chimpanzee food calls are directed at specific individuals
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黑猩猩的食物呼叫是针对特定个体的
DOI：
10.1016/j.anbehav.2013.08.013
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发表时间：
2013
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影响因子：
2.5
通讯作者：
Schel A
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Schel A
亮点现场回放实验显示黑猩猩向特定接收者发出食物呼叫。雄性黑猩猩选择性地发出呼叫，以通知高级朋友的到来。功能性参考黑猩猩食物呼叫不是对食物的反射性反应。黑猩猩以自愿的接收者导向方式发出参考呼叫。挑战认为灵长类动物的声音产生是不灵活和不加区别的。如果灵长类动物能够发声来告知接收者有关外部实体，它将代表人类语言连续性的重要元素。我们通过实验测试了黑猩猩粗鲁的咕噜声（其功能是指食物）是否是有选择地产生的，表明自愿控制，以及它们是否针对特定个体。这些是系统能够主动向其他人通报外部事件的先决条件。我们进行了一项现场回放实验，在实验中，我们向雄性黑猩猩（Pan troglodytes）默默喂食，并伴随着熟悉的群体成员的喘息声。我们发现，如果呼叫者与模拟的友谊水平较高而不是较低，并且个体之间存在较大而不是较小的正支配等级差异（即呼叫者排名较低），则受试者更有可能对模拟到来的食物呼叫作出反应。我们得出的结论是，黑猩猩的食物叫声不仅仅是对食物的反射性反应，而且可以选择性地针对社会上重要的个体。因此，我们的研究结果与传统观点不一致，传统观点认为灵长类动物的发声是不灵活和不加区别地产生的。相反，我们的结果表明，类人猿可以以高度选择性、以接受者为导向的方式发出语义上有意义的呼叫。需要进一步的研究来测试黑猩猩是否使用这种灵活的系统来向无知的个体告知食物，但支持这种类型的交流的先决条件似乎已经存在。
HighlightsField playback experiment shows chimpanzees direct food calls to specific recipients.Male chimpanzees selectively produce calls for the arrival of high-ranking friends.Functionally referential chimpanzee food calls are not reflexive responses to food.Chimpanzees produce referential calls in a voluntary recipient-directed manner.Challenges view that primate vocal production is inflexible and indiscriminate.If primates were capable of vocalizing to inform a receiver about an external entity, it would represent an important element of continuity with human language. We tested experimentally whether chimpanzee rough grunts, which function to refer to food, are produced selectively, indicating voluntary control, and whether they are directed at specific individuals. These are prerequisites for a system capable of actively informing others about external events. We conducted a field playback experiment in which we presented silently feeding male chimpanzees, Pan troglodytes, with arrival pant hoots of a familiar group member. We found that subjects were significantly more likely to respond with food calls to the simulated arrival of an individual with whom the caller had a high rather than low level of friendship and where there was a large rather than small positive dominance rank difference between the individuals (ie caller was lower ranking). We concluded that chimpanzee food calls are not simply reflexive responses to food, but can be selectively directed at socially important individuals. Our findings are thus inconsistent with traditional views of primate vocalizations as inflexibly and indiscriminately produced. Instead, our results indicate that great apes can produce semantically meaningful calls in a highly selective, recipient-directed manner. Further research is needed to test whether chimpanzees use this flexible system to inform ignorant individuals about food, but the prerequisites to support this type of communication seem to be present.
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