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Social monitoring in wild capuchins

野生卷尾猴的社会监控

基本信息

批准号：
1945121
负责人：
Thore Bergman
金额：
$ 32.87万
依托单位：
Regents of the University of Michigan - Ann Arbor
依托单位国家：
美国
项目类别：
Standard Grant
财政年份：
2020
资助国家：
美国
起止时间：
2020-05-01 至 2023-04-30
项目状态：
已结题

来源：
https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1945121&HistoricalAwards=false
关键词：
Social monitoring wild capuchins

项目摘要

Human cognitive abilities are certainly remarkable. Yet, studies on the cognition of other large-brained animals demonstrate that the cognitive abilities of humans are not exceptional. Rather, humans are just at the extreme end of the cognitive spectrum. As such, research on cognitive evolution in other large-brained primates can offer insight into the origin of human cognitive abilities. In this project, researchers will probe the breadth and depth of social cognition in arguably one of the “smartest” primates outside of apes and humans – white-faced capuchin monkeys. This project supports a unique field station where researchers have combined a diverse biological field site with an on-site environmental endocrinology laboratory and training facility for students. This combination of field site and laboratory offers a field school each year. Therefore the project supports numerous student training opportunities in STEM research and fosters an international network of scientific researchers and collaborative relationships. One of the leading hypotheses for explaining advanced primate intelligence is the "social complexity hypothesis." This is the idea that the challenges of living in large, complex social groups will select for animals with larger brains and greater cognition. However, current methods use “group size” as a proxy for social complexity, a variable that does not capture variation in social complexity for most primate species. By contrast, social knowledge – knowledge about the identity and relationships of other individuals – captures social complexity much better because it tracks the information animals use in their everyday lives. Importantly, the origin of large brains in capuchins is independent from that of apes, and thus capuchins offer a second event for researchers to identify selective pressures that led to large brains and sophisticated cognition. In this project, the researchers will examine what social knowledge capuchins have and how they use it day to day. Specifically, they will conduct playback experiments using vocal sequences to test whether white-faced capuchins understand the relative dominance ranks and kin relations of others in their group (“depth” of social knowledge) and whether they recognize and know the ranging patterns of others from neighboring groups (“breadth” of social knowledge). This program will provide data on one of the most important taxa for comparative analyses of primate cognition. The project is jointly supported by NSF's Biological Anthropology program and Behavioral Systems Cluster.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.

人类的认知能力当然是非凡的。然而，对其他大脑动物的认知研究表明，人类的认知能力并不例外。相反，人类只是在认知光谱的极端。因此，对其他大脑灵长类动物认知进化的研究可以深入了解人类认知能力的起源。在这个项目中，研究人员将探索社会认知的广度和深度，可以说是猿和人类之外“最聪明”的灵长类动物之一-白脸卷尾猴。该项目支持一个独特的野外站，研究人员将多样化的生物现场与现场环境内分泌学实验室和学生培训设施相结合。这种现场和实验室的结合每年提供一个现场学校。因此，该项目支持STEM研究的众多学生培训机会，并促进科学研究人员和合作关系的国际网络。解释灵长类高级智力的主要假说之一是“社会复杂性假说”。“这是一个想法，即生活在大型、复杂的社会群体中的挑战将选择大脑更大、认知能力更强的动物。然而，目前的方法使用“群体规模”作为社会复杂性的代理，这是一个无法捕捉大多数灵长类物种社会复杂性变化的变量。相比之下，社会知识--关于其他个体的身份和关系的知识--更好地捕捉了社会的复杂性，因为它跟踪了动物在日常生活中使用的信息。重要的是，卷尾猴的大大脑起源独立于猿类，因此卷尾猴为研究人员提供了第二个事件，以确定导致大大脑和复杂认知的选择性压力。在这个项目中，研究人员将研究卷尾猴拥有什么样的社会知识，以及它们每天如何使用这些知识。具体来说，他们将使用声音序列进行回放实验，以测试白脸卷尾猴是否理解其群体中其他人的相对统治地位和亲属关系（社会知识的“深度”），以及它们是否认识和知道邻近群体中其他人的测距模式（社会知识的“广度”）。该计划将提供灵长类认知比较分析的最重要分类群之一的数据。该项目由NSF的生物人类学项目和行为系统集群共同支持。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的知识价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

项目成果

期刊论文数量（5）

专著数量（0）

科研奖励数量（0）

会议论文数量（0）

专利数量（0）

Information Ecology: an integrative framework for studying animal behavior

信息生态学：研究动物行为的综合框架

DOI：
10.1016/j.tree.2023.05.017
发表时间：
2023
期刊：
Trends in Ecology & Evolution
影响因子：
16.8
作者：
Bergman, Thore J.;Beehner, Jacinta C.
通讯作者：
Beehner, Jacinta C.

Answering big questions with small data: the use of field experiments in primate cognition

DOI：
10.1016/j.cobeha.2022.101141
发表时间：
2022-08
期刊：
Current Opinion in Behavioral Sciences
影响因子：
5
作者：
Marcela E. Benítez;Melissa Painter;Nicole Guisneuf;T. Bergman
通讯作者：
Marcela E. Benítez;Melissa Painter;Nicole Guisneuf;T. Bergman

Using an on-site laboratory for fecal steroid analysis in wild white-faced capuchins

使用现场实验室对野生白面卷尾猴进行粪便类固醇分析

DOI：
10.1016/j.ygcen.2022.114109
发表时间：
2022
期刊：
General and Comparative Endocrinology
影响因子：
2.7
作者：
Beehner, Jacinta C.;Alfaro, José;Allen, Cloe;Benítez, Marcela E.;Bergman, Thore J.;Buehler, Margaret S.;Carrera, Sofia C.;Chester, Emily M.;Deschner, Tobias;Fuentes, Alexander
通讯作者：
Fuentes, Alexander

High density of white‐faced capuchins ( Cebus capucinus ) and habitat quality in the Taboga Forest of Costa Rica

哥斯达黎加塔博加森林白脸卷尾猴（Cebus capucinus）的高密度和栖息地质量

DOI：
10.1002/ajp.23096
发表时间：
2020
期刊：
American Journal of Primatology
影响因子：
2.4
作者：
Tinsley Johnson, Elizabeth;Benítez, Marcela E.;Fuentes, Alexander;McLean, Celia R.;Norford, Ariek B.;Ordoñez, Juan Carlos;Beehner, Jacinta C.;Bergman, Thore J.
通讯作者：
Bergman, Thore J.