Age- and sex-related variations in clear calls of Papio ursinus

International Journal of Primatology

Volumn 28, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 947-960

  Ey, Elodie ^a   Hammerschmidt, Kurt ^a   Seyfarth, Robert M ^b   Fischer, Julia ^a  

^a GERMAN PRIMATE CENTER   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Acoustic analysis; Age; Baboon; Clear call; Contact barks; Ontogeny; Puberty; Sex; Vocalizations

Indexed keywords

AGE-RELATED DIFFERENCE; BODY MASS; BODY SIZE; CALLING BEHAVIOR; GROWTH; HORMONE; LEARNING; MATURATION; ONTOGENY; PRIMATE; SEX-RELATED DIFFERENCE; SEXUAL DIMORPHISM; VOCALIZATION;

PAPIO; PAPIO URSINUS; PRIMATES;

EID: 34648823736     PISSN: 01640291     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10764-007-9139-3     Document Type: Article

References (44)

1. Beehner, J. C., Bergam, T. J., Cheney, D. L., Seyfarth, R. M., & Whitten, P. L. (2006). Testosterone predicts future dominance rank and mating activity among male Chacma baboons. Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology, 59, 469-479.
2. Beeman, K. (1998). Digital signal analysis, editing, and synthesis. In S. L. Hopp, M. J. Owren, & C. S. Evans (eds.), Animal Acoustic Communication, Sound analysis and research methods, chapter 3 (pp. 59-103). Berlin Heidelberg New York: Springer.
3. Bergman, T. J., Beehner, J. C., Cheney, D. L., Seyfarth, R. M., & Whitten, P. L. (2006). Interactions in male baboons: the importance of both males' testosterone. Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology, 59, 480-489
4. Boinski, S. (1991). The coordination of spatial position: a field study of the vocal behaviour of adult female squirrel monkeys. Animal Behaviour, 41(1), 89-102.
5. Byrne, R. W. (1981). Distance vocalizations of Guinea baboons (Papio papio) in Senegal: an analysis of function. Behaviour 78,(3-4), 283-313.
6. Cheney, D. L., Seyfarth, R. M., & Palombit, R. (1996). The function and mechanisms underlying baboon 'contact' barks. Animal Behaviour, 52(3), 507-518.
7. Cheney, D. L., Seyfarth, R. M., Fischer, J., Beehner, J., Bergman, T., Johnson, S. E., Kitchen, D. M., Palombit, R. A., Rendall, D., & Silk, J. B. (2004) Factors affecting reproduction and mortality among baboons in the Okavango Delta, Botswana. International Journal of Primatology, 25(2), 401-428.
8. Collins, S. A. (2000). Men's voices and women's choices. Animal Behaviour, 60, 773-780.
9. Egnor, S. E. R., & Hauser, M. D. (2004). A paradox in the evolution of primate vocal learning. Trends Neurosciences, 27(11), 649-654.
10. Engh, A. L., Beehner, J. C., Bergam, T. J., Whitten, P. L., Hoffmeiers, R. R., Seyfarth, R. M., et al. (2006). Female hierarchy instability, male immigration and infanticide increase glucocorticoid levels in female Chacma baboons. Animal Behaviour, 71, 1227-1237.
11. Fischer, J. (2002). Developmental modifications in the vocal behaviour of nonhuman primates. In A. Ghazanfar (ed.), Primate Audition: Behaviour and Neurobiology (pp 109-125). Boca Raton: CRC Press.
12. Fischer, J. (2004) Emergence of individual recognition in young macaques. Animal Behaviour, 67, 655-661.
13. Fischer, J., Cheney, D. L., & Seyfarth, R. M. (2000). Development of infant baboons' responses to graded bark variants. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London Series B, 267(1459), 2317-2321.
14. Fischer, J., Hammerschmidt, K., Cheney, D. L., & Seyfarth, R. M. (2001a). Acoustic features of female Chacma baboon barks. Ethology, 107(1), 33-54.
15. Fischer, J., Metz, M., Cheney, D. L., & Seyfarth, R. M. (2001b). Baboon responses to graded bark variants. Animal Behaviour, 61(5), 925-931.
16. Fischer, J., Hammerschmidt, K., Cheney, D. L., & Seyfarth, R. M. (2002). Acoustic features of male baboon loud calls: influence of context, age and individuality. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 111(3), 1465-1474.
17. Fischer, J., Kitchen, D. M., Seyfarth, R. M., & Cheney, D. L. (2004). Baboon loud calls advertise male quality: acoustic features and their relation to rank, age, and exhaustion. Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology, 56(2), 140-148.
18. Fitch, W. T. (1997). Vocal tract length and formant frequency dispersion correlate with body size in rhesus macaques. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 102(2), 1213-1221.
19. Fitch, W. T., & Hauser, M. D. (1995). Vocal production in non-human primates-Acoustics, physiology, and functional constraints on honest advertisement. American Journal of Primatology, 37(3), 191-219.
20. Fitch, W. T., & Hauser, M. D. (2003). Unpacking 'honesty': Vertebrate vocal production and the evolution of acoustic signals. In A. M. Simmons, A. N. Popper, R. R. Fay (eds), Animal communication (pp 65-137). Berlin Heidelberg New York: Springer.
21. González, J. (2004). Formant frequencies and body size of speaker: a weak relationship in adult humans. Journal Phonetics, 32(2), 277-287.
22. Hammerschmidt, K., Newman, J. D., Champoux, M., & Suomi, S. J. (2000). Changes in rhesus macaque 'coo' vocalizations during early development. Ethology, 106(10), 873-886.
23. Hammerschmidt, K., Freundstein, T., Jürgens, U. (2001). Vocal development in squirrel monkeys. Behaviour, 138(9), 1179-1204.
24. Hauser, M. D. (1993). The evolution of nonhuman primate vocalizations - Effects of phylogeny, body weight, and social context. Americal Naturalist, 142(3), 528-542.
25. Johnson, S. E. (2003). Life history and the competitive environment: Trajectories of growth, maturation, and reproductive output among Chacma baboons. American Journal of Physical Anthropology, 120, 83-98.
26. Jürgens, U., & Ploog, D. (1981). On the neural control of mammalian vocalization. Trends in Neurosciences, 4(6), 135-137.
27. Kitchen, D. M., Seyfarth, R. M., Fischer, J., & Cheney, D. L. (2003). Loud calls as indicators of dominance in male baboons (Papio cynocephalus ursinus). Behavioral ecology and sociobiology, 53(6), 374-384.
28. Masataka, N. (1989). Motivational referents to contact calls in Japanese monkeys. Ethology, 80(1-4), 265-273.
29. Masataka, N., & Symmes, D. (1986). Effect of separation distance on isolation call structure in squirrel monkeys (Saimiri sciureus). American Journal of Primatology, 10(3), 271-278.
30. Miller, C. T., Scarl, J., Hauser, M. D. (2004). Sensory biases underline sex differences in tamarin long call structure. Animal Behaviour, 68(4), 713-720.
31. Norcross, J. L., & Newman, J. D. (1993). Context and gender-specific differences in the acoustic structure of common marmoset (Callithrix jacchus) phee calls. American Journal of Primatology, 30(1), 37-54.
32. Owren M. J., Dieter J. A., Seyfarth R. M., & Cheney D. L. (2003). Vocalizations of rhesus (Macaca mulatta) and Japanese (M. fuscata) macaques cross-fostered between species show evidence of only limited modification. Development Psychobiology, 26, 389-406.
33. Pfefferle, D., & Fischer, J. (2006). Sound and size-Identification of variables that reflect body size in Hamadryas baboons. Animal Behaviour, 72, 43-51.
34. Rendall, D., Cheney, D. L., & Seyfarth, R. M. (2000). Proximate factors mediating 'contact' calls in adult female baboons (Papio cynocephalus ursinus) and their infants. Journal of Comparative Psychology, 114(1), 36-46.
35. 0) and formant profiles of human vowels and vowel-like baboon grunts: the role of vocalizer body size and voice-acoustic allometry. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 117(2), 944-955.
36. Scheiner, E., & Hammerschmidt, K. (In press). The role of auditory feedback in nonverbal vocal behavior of normally hearing and hearing-impaired infants. In K. Izdebski (ed.), Voice and Emotion. San Diego:Plural Publishing.
37. Schrader, L., & Hammerschmidt, K. (1997). Computer-aided analysis of acoustic parameters in animal vocalizations: a multi-parametric approach. Bioacoustics, 7, 247-265.
38. Schrader, L., & Todt, D. (1993) Contact call parameters covary with social context in common marmosets Callithrix j. jacchus. Animal Behaviour, 46(5), 1026-1028.
39. Semple, S., & McComb, K. (2000) Perception of female reproductive state from vocal cues in a mammal species. Proceedings Royal Society London B, 267(1444), 707-712.
40. Seyfarth, R. M., & Cheney, D. L. (1980). The ontogeny of vervet monkey alarm calling behaviour: a preliminary report. Zeitschrift Fur Tierpsychologie, 54(1), 37-56.
41. Snowdon, C. T. (1988). Communication as a social interaction: its importance in ontogeny and adult behaviour. In D. Todt, P. Goedeking, D. Symmes (eds.), Primate vocal communication (pp. 108-122). Berlin Heidelberg New York: Springer.
42. Vehrencamp, S. L. (2000). Handicap, index, and conventional signal elements of bird song. In Y. Espmark, T. Amundsen, G. Rosenqvist (eds.), Animal signals: signalling and signal design in animal communication (pp. 277-300). Trondheim, Norway: Tapir academic press.
43. Waser, P. M. (1982). The evolution of male loud calls among mangabeys and baboons. In C.T. Snowdon, C.H. Brown, M.R. Petersen (eds.), Primate communication (pp. 117-143). Cambridge University Press.
44. Winter, P., Handley, P., Ploog, D., & Schott, D. (1973). Ontogeny of squirrel monkey calls under normal conditions and under acoustic isolation. Behaviour, 47(3-4), 230-239.