Cognitive underpinnings of competition in chacma baboons (Papio hamadryas ursinus).

查克玛狒狒（Papio hamadryas ursinus）竞争的认知基础。

• 批准号: 17957174
• 负责人: Dr. Roman Wittig
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: Leidy Laboratories of Biology
• 依托单位国家: 德国
• 项目类别: Research Fellowships
• 财政年份: 2006
• 资助国家: 德国
• 起止时间: 2005-12-31 至 2007-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gepris.dfg.de/gepris/projekt/17957174?language=en
• 关键词: Cognitive; underpinnings; competition; chacma; baboons

Understanding social intelligence in different species is crucial to our understanding of the evolution of human intelligence. Complex social intelligence seems to have evolved several times, in birds, cetaceans and primates. The mechanisms underlying such intelligence may, however, be qualitatively different across taxa. Comparative data on a variety of species are needed to test this hypothesis. Some of the most sophisticated tests of social intelligence have used experimental paradigms that simulate competitive encounters. The cognitive demands placed on competitors increase markedly when a previously uninvolved ¿third party¿ forms an alliance with one competitor against another, and when such alliances are transient and change over short periods of time. I aim to extend current knowledge of complex social intelligence and third party relations in primates, using field playback experiments and behavioural observations of free-ranging baboons, Papio hamadryas ursinus, in the Okavango Delta, Botswana. My experiments will test, first, whether third party involvement in conflicts affects the subsequent behaviour of conflict partners in ways that suggest they understand the third party¿s involvement; and second, how quickly baboons monitor changes in third-party relationships. My results should yield new insights into the complexity of primate social relations and will form the basis for research that compares primates with other complex, socially living species.

了解不同物种的社会智能对于我们理解人类智能的进化至关重要。复杂的社会智能似乎已经在鸟类、鲸类和灵长类动物中进化了好几次。然而，这种智能背后的机制可能在不同的分类群中有质的不同。需要各种物种的比较数据来检验这一假设。一些最复杂的社会智力测试使用了模拟竞争性遭遇的实验范式。当一个先前不参与的第三方与一个竞争者结成联盟，反对另一个竞争者时，对竞争者的认知要求会显著增加，而且这种联盟是短暂的，在很短的时间内就会改变。我的目标是扩大目前的知识复杂的社会智力和第三方关系的灵长类动物，使用现场回放实验和行为观察的自由放养的狒狒，狒狒hamadryas ursinus，在奥卡万戈三角洲，博茨瓦纳。我的实验将测试，第一，第三方参与冲突是否会影响冲突伙伴随后的行为，表明他们理解第三方的参与;第二，狒狒监测第三方关系变化的速度有多快。我的研究结果应该会对灵长类动物社会关系的复杂性产生新的见解，并将成为将灵长类动物与其他复杂的社会生活物种进行比较的研究基础。