Behavioral cues used in reunions between mother and pup South American fur seals (Arctocephalus australis)

Journal of Mammalogy

Volumn 84, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 524-535

  Phillips, Alana V ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^b NOAA National Marine Mammal Laboratory   (United States)

Author keywords

Arctocephalus australis; Behavioral strategy; Fur seal; Mother pup interaction; Olfactory cue; Parent offspring conflict; Recognition; Reunion; Vocalization

Indexed keywords

KIN RECOGNITION; MATERNAL CARE; OLFACTORY CUE; PARENT-OFFSPRING INTERACTION; PINNIPED; VISUAL CUE; VOCALIZATION;

PERU;

ARCTOCEPHALUS; ARCTOCEPHALUS AUSTRALIS; MAMMALIA; NASO; OTARIIDAE; PANTHERA LEO; PHOCIDAE; PINNIPEDIA;

EID: 0012647018     PISSN: 00222372     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1644/1545-1542(2003)084<0524:BCUIRB>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

References (41)

1. ARNOLD, W., AND F. TRILLMICH. 1985. Time budget in Galapagos fur seal pups: the influence of the mother's presence and absence on pup activity and play. Behaviour 92:302-321.
2. BARTHOLOMEW, G. A. 1959. Mother-young relations and the maturation of pup behaviour in the Alaska fur seal. Animal Behaviour 7:163-171.
3. BONNER, W. N. 1984. Lactation strategies in pinnipeds: problems for a marine mammalian group. Symposia of the Zoological Society of London 51:253-272.
4. CHARRIER, I., N. MATHEVON, M. HASSNAOUI, L. CARRARO, AND P. JOUVENTIN. 2002a. The subantarctic fur seal pup switches its begging behaviour during maternal absence. Canadian Journal of Zoology 80:1250-1255.
5. CHARRIER, I., N. MATHEVON, AND P. JOUVENTIN. 2001. Mother's voice recognition by seal pups. Nature 412:873.
6. CHARRIER, I., N. MATHEVON, AND P. JOUVENTIN. 2002b. How does a fur seal mother recognize the voice of her pup? An experimental study of Arctocephalus tropicalis. Journal of Experimental Biology 205:603-612.
7. DOBSON, F. S., AND P. JOUVENTIN. 2003. How mothers find their pup in a colony of Antarctic fur seals. Behavioural Processes 61:77-85.
8. FOGDEN, S. C. L. 1971. Mother-young behaviour at grey seal breeding beaches. Journal of Zoology (London) 164:61-92.
9. GENTRY, R. L. 1973. Thermoregulatory behaviour of eared seals. Behaviour 46:73-93.
10. GEORGES, J.-Y., AND C. GUINET. 2000. Maternal care in the subantarctic fur seals on Amsterdam Island. Ecology 81:295-308.
11. GISINER, R., AND R. J. SCHUSTERMAN. 1991. California sea lion pups play an active role in reunions with their mothers. Animal Behaviour 41:364-366.
12. HARCOURT, R. 1991a. Maternal aggression in the South American fur seal in Peru. Canadian Journal of Zoology 70:320-325.
13. HARCOURT, R. 1991b. The development of play in the South American fur seal. Ethology 88:191-202.
14. HARCOURT, R. 1992. Factors affecting early mortality in the South American fur seal (Arctocephalus australis) in Peru: density-related effects and predation. Journal of Zoology (London) 226:259-270.
15. HARCOURT, R. G. 1990. Maternal influences on pup survival and development in the South American fur seal. Ph.D. dissertation, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom.
16. HOLMES, W. G. 1990. Parent-offspring recognition in mammals: a proximate and ultimate perspective. Pp. 441-460 in Mammalian parenting: biochemical, neurobiological, and behavioral determinants (N. A. Krasnegor and R. S. Bridges, eds.). Oxford University Press, Oxford, United Kingdom.
17. INSLEY, S. J. 1992. Mother-offspring separation and acoustic stereotypy: a comparison of cell morphology in two species of pinnipeds. Behaviour 120:103-121.
18. INSLEY, S. J. 2000. Long-term vocal recognition in the northern fur seal. Nature 406:404-405.
19. INSLEY, S. J. 2001. Mother-offspring vocal recognition in northern fur seals is mutual but asymmetrical. Animal Behaviour 61:129-137.
20. INSLEY, S. J., A. V. PHILLIPS, AND I. CHARRIER. In press. Social recognition behavior in pinnipeds: a review. Aquatic Mammals.
21. LUNN, N. J. 1992. Fostering behaviour and milk stealing in Antarctic fur seals. Canadian Journal of Zoology 70:837-839.
22. LUNN, N. J., AND I. L. BOYD. 1991. Pupping-site fidelity of Antarctic fur seals at Bird Island, South Georgia. Journal of Mammalogy 72:202-206.
23. LUNN, N. J., I. L. BOYD, AND J. P. CROXALL. 1994. Reproductive performance of female Antarctic fur seals: the influence of age, breeding experience, environmental variation and individual quality. Journal of Animal Ecology 63:827-840.
24. MACHLIS, L., P. W. D. DODD, AND J. C. FENTRESS. 1985. The pooling fallacy: problems arising when individuals contribute more than one observation to the data set. Zeitschrift für Tierpsychologie 68:201-214.
25. MAJLUF, P. 1987. Reproductive ecology of female South American fur seals at Punta San Juan, Peru. Ph.D. dissertation, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom.
26. MAJLUF, P. 1992. Timing of births and juvenile mortality in the South American fur seal in Peru. Journal of Zoology (London) 227:367-383.
27. MAJLUF, P., AND M. E. GOEBEL. 1992. The capture and handling of female South American fur seals and their pups. Marine Mammal Science 8:187-190.
28. MARLOW, B. J. 1975. The comparative behaviour of the Australasian sea lions Neophoca cinerea and Phocarctos hookeri (Pinnipedia: Otariidae). Mammalia 39:159-230.
29. MCNAB, A. G., AND M. C. CRAWLEY. 1975. Mother and pup behaviour of the New Zealand fur seal, Arctocephalus forsteri (Lesson). Mauri Ora 3:77-88.
30. MILLER, E. H. 1991. Communication in pinnipeds, with special reference to non-acoustic signalling. Pp. 128-235 in The behaviour of pinnipeds (D. Renouf, ed.). Chapman & Hall, London, United Kingdom.
31. PETERSON, R. S., AND G. A. BARTHOLOMEW. 1967. The natural history and behavior of the California sea lion. American Society of Mammalogy, Special Publication 1:1-79.
32. PHILLIPS, A. V., AND I. STIRLING. 2000. Vocal individuality in mother and pup South American fur seals, Arctocephalus australis. Marine Mammal Science 16:592-616.
33. PHILLIPS, A. V., AND I. STIRLING. 2001. Vocal repertoire of South American fur seals (Arctocephalus australis) in Peru: structure, function and context. Canadian Journal of Zoology 79:420-437.
34. RENOUF, D. 1991. Sensory reception and processing in Phocidae and Otariidae. Pp. 345-394 in The behaviour of pinnipeds (D. Renouf, ed.). Chapman & Hall, London, United Kingdom.
35. ROUX, J.-P. 1986. A successful subantarctic fur seal milk-thief. Mammalia 50:403-405.
36. ROUX, J.-P., AND P. JOUVENTIN. 1987. Behavioral cues to individual recognition in the subantarctic fur seal, Arctocephalus tropicalis. In Status, biology, and ecology of fur seals (J. P. Croxall and R. L. Gentry, eds.). NOAA Technical Report National Marine Fisheries Service, Washington, D.C. 51:95-102.
37. SCHUSTERMAN, R. J., E. B. HANGGI, AND R. GISINER. 1992. Acoustic signalling in mother-pup reunions, interspecies bonding, and affiliation by kinship in California sea lions (Zalophus californianus). Pp. 533-551 in Marine mammal sensory systems (J. A. Thomas, R. A. Kastelein, and A. E. Supin, eds.). Plenum Press, New York.
38. STIRLING, I. 1971. Studies on the behaviour of the South Australian fur seal, Arctocephalus forsteri (Lesson). II. Adult females and pups. Australian Journal of Zoology 19:267-273.
39. TRILLMICH, F. 1981. Mutual mother-pup recognition in Galapagos fur seals and sea lions: cues used and functional significance. Behaviour 78:21-42.
40. TRILLMICH, F. 1990. The behavioral ecology of maternal effort in fur seals and sea lions. Behaviour 114:3-19.
41. TRILLMICH, F., AND P. MAJLUF. 1981. First observations on colony structure, behaviour, and vocal repertoire of the South American fur seal (Arctocephalus australis Zimmermann, 1783) in Peru. Zeitschrift für Säugetierkunde 46:310-322.