Social behavior and vocal communication in baboons

狒狒的社会行为和声音交流

• 批准号: 6758611
• 负责人: THORE BERGMAN
• 金额: $ 4.89万
• 依托单位: UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2002
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2002-07-01 至 2005-06-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/6758611
• 关键词: Africa; age difference; animal communication behavior; animal developmental psychology; audiotape; baboons; behavior test; behavioral /social science research tag; computer data analysis; ethology; family structure /dynamics; field study; gender difference; postdoctoral investigator; social behavior; social dominance; social group process; vocalization

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Our long-term goal is to understand the natural communication of nonhuman primates and the cognitive mechanisms that underlie it. Research is relevant to studies of human health for several reasons. To understand the evolution of language, we must understand how our closest animals relatives, the nonhuman primates, use vocalizations in the social interactions. To understand human brain mechanisms, language, and cognition, we need animal models of similar processes in nonhuman primates. Field research on primates living in their natural habitat constitutes a first step in achieving these goals. Our specific aims are to examine the acoustic properties and social function of vocalizations among free-ranging baboons (Papio cynocephalus ursinus). Research is conducted in the Moremi Game Reserve, Botswana. Subjects include two groups of over 100 individually recognized animals. For most individuals, long-term data on age, matrilineal relatedness and dominance ranks are available. The animals are fully habituated to close-range observation by humans on foot. Field methods include observational sampling of behavior, tape-recording of vocalizations and playback experiments. Laboratory methods include computer-based analysis of the acoustic features of vocalizations, and using software designed for the analysis of human speech.

描述（由申请人提供）：我们的长期目标是了解非人灵长类动物的自然交流及其基础的认知机制。研究与人类健康研究相关，原因有几个。 为了理解语言的进化，我们必须了解我们最亲近的动物亲戚，非人类灵长类动物，在社会交往中如何使用发声。 为了理解人类的大脑机制、语言和认知，我们需要在非人类灵长类动物中建立类似过程的动物模型。 对生活在自然栖息地的灵长类动物进行实地研究是实现这些目标的第一步。 我们的具体目标是研究自由放养的狒狒（Papio cynocephalus ursinus）发声的声学特性和社会功能。 研究在博茨瓦纳莫雷米禁猎区进行。 受试者包括两组超过100个单独识别的动物。 对大多数个体而言，可获得关于年龄、母系亲缘关系和优势等级的长期数据。 这些动物完全习惯于人类步行近距离观察。 现场方法包括行为观察取样、发声录音和回放实验。 实验室方法包括基于计算机的发声声学特征分析，以及使用为分析人类语音而设计的软件。