Coping with social stress: Heart rate responses to agonistic interactions in king penguins

Behavioral Ecology

Volumn 23, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 1178-1185

  Viblanc, Vincent A ^a,b   Valette, Victorien ^a,b   Kauffmann, Marion ^a,b   Malosse, Nelly ^a,b   Groscolas, René ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE STRASBOURG   (France)

^b CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

aggressive behavior; colonial breeding; context assessment; heart rate modulation; motivation; stress

Indexed keywords

AGONISTIC BEHAVIOR; BEHAVIORAL RESPONSE; BREEDING POPULATION; BREEDING SEASON; COLONIAL BREEDING; CONSPECIFIC; PHYSIOLOGICAL RESPONSE; REPRODUCTIVE STATUS; RISK ASSESSMENT; SEABIRD;

EID: 84867833790     PISSN: 10452249     EISSN: 14657279     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/beheco/ars095     Document Type: Article

References (51)

1. Adams DB, Baccelli G, Mancia G, Zanchetti A. 1968. Cardiovascular changes during preparation for fighting behaviour in the cat. Nature. 220:1239-1240.
2. Albrecht T, Klvana P, 2004. Nest crypsis, reproductive value of a clutch and escape decisions in incubating female mallards Anas platyrhynchos. Ethology. 110:603-613.
3. Alexander RD, 1974. The evolution of social behavior. Annu Rev Ecol Syst. 5:325-383.
4. Armitage KB, Schwartz OA. 2000. Social enhancement of fitness in yellow-bellied marmots. Proc Natl Acad Sci USA. 97:12149-12152.
5. Aureli F, Preston SD, de Waal FB. 1999. Heart rate responses to social interactions in free-moving rhesus macaques (Macaca mulatta): a pilot study. J Comp Psychol. 113:59-65.
6. Baglione V, Marcos JM, Canestrari D, Ekman J, 2002. Direct fitness benefits of group living in a complex cooperative society of carrion crows Corvus corone corone. Anim Behav. 64:887-893.
7. Bartolomucci A. 2007. Social stress, immune functions and disease in rodents. Front Neuroendocrinol. 28:28-49.
8. Berntson GG, Boysen ST. 1989. Specificity of the cardiac response to conspecific vocalization in chimpanzees. Behav Neurosci. 103:235-245.
9. Boissy A, Le Neindre P. 1997. Behavioral, cardiac and cortisol responses to brief peer separation and reunion in cattle. Physiol Behav. 61:693-699.
10. Burnham KP, Anderson DR. 2002. Model selection and multimodel inference: a practical information-theoretic approach. New York: Springer.
11. Cacioppo JT. 1994. Social neuroscience: autonomic, neuroendocrine, and immune responses to stress. Psychophysiology. 31:113-128.
12. Cilly F, Tourenq C, Johnson A, 1994. Variation in parental care with offspring age in the greater flamingo. Condor. 96:809-812.
13. Clutton-Brock TH, 1991. The evolution of parental care. Princeton (NJ): Princeton University Press.
14. Corbel H, Geiger S, Groscolas R. 2010. Preparing to fledge: the adrenocortical and metabolic responses to stress in king penguin chicks. Funct Ecol. 24:82-92.
15. CSD. 2000. Aggressiveness in king penguins in relation to reproductive status and territory location. Anim Behav. 59:813-821.
16. Creel S, 2001. Social dominance and stress hormones. Trends Ecol Evol. 16:491-497.
17. De Villiers M, Bause M, Giese M, Fourie A, 2006. Hardly hard-hearted: heart rate responses of incubating Northern Giant Petrels (Macronectes halli) to human disturbance on sub-Antarctic Marion Island. Polar Biol. 29:717-720.
18. Dobson FS, Viblanc VA, Arnaud CM, Murie JO. 2012. Kin selection in Columbian ground squirrels: direct and indirect fitness benefits. Mol Ecol. 21:524-531.
19. Edwards DH, Kravitz EA. 1997. Serotonin, social status and aggression. Curr Opin Neurobiol. 7:812-819.
20. Gauthier-Clerc M, Gendner J-P, Ribic CA, Fraser WR, Woehler EJ, Descamps S, Gilly C, Le Bohec C, Le Maho Y, 2004. Long-term effects of flipper bands on penguins. Proc R Soc Lond B. 271:423-426.
21. Goymann W, Wingfield JC, 2004. Allostatic load, social status and stress hormones: the costs of social status matter. Anim Behav. 67:591-602.
22. Groscolas R, Viera V, Guerin N, Handrich Y, CSD. 2010. Heart rate as a predictor of energy expenditure in undisturbed fasting and incubating penguins. J Exp Biol. 213:153-160.
23. Kemeny ME, 2003. The psychobiology of stress. Curr Dir Psychol Sci. 12:124-129.
24. Kitaysky AS, Romano MD, Piatt JF, Wingfield JC, Kikuchi M. 2005. The adrenocortical response of tufted puffin chicks to nutritional deficits. Horm Behav. 47:606-619.
25. Marchant JN, Mendl MT, Rudd AR, Broom DM, 1995. The effect of agonistic interactions on the heart rate of group-housed sows. App Anim Behav Sci. 46:49-56.
26. Maynard-Smith J. ed 1982. Evolution and the theory of games. Cambridge (UK): Cambrigde University Press.
27. Maynard-Smith J, Harper DGC, Brookfield JFY, 1988. The evolution of aggression: can selection generate variability? Philos Trans R Soc Lond, Ser B. 319:557-570.
28. Mouterde SC, Duganzich DM, Molles LE, Helps S, Helps F, Waas JR, 2012. Triumph displays inform eavesdropping little blue penguins of new dominance asymmetries. Anim Behav. 83:605-611.
29. Nakagawa S, Waas JR, Masamine M, 2001. Heart rate changes reveal that little blue penguin chicks (Eudyptula minor) can use vocal signatures to discriminate familiar from unfamiliar chicks. Behav Ecol Sociobiol. 50:180-188.
30. Nephew BC, Kahn SA, Romero LM. 2003. Heart rate and behavior are regulated independently of corticosterone following diverse acute stressors. Gen Comp Endocrinol. 133:173-180.
31. O'Hara RB, Kotze DJ, 2010. Do not log-transform count data. Methods Ecol Evol. 1:118-122.
32. Oliveira RF, Carneiro LA, Canario AVM, 2005. No hormonal response in tied fights. Nature. 437:207-208.
33. Oliveira RF, Lopes M, Carneiro LA, Canio AV. 2001. Watching fights raises fish hormone levels. Nature. 409:475.
34. Osiejuk TS, Kuczynski L, 2007. Factors affecting flushing distance in incubating female greylag geese Anser anser. Wildl Biol. 13:11-18.
35. Saraux C, Viblanc VA, Hanuise N, Le Maho Y, Le Bohec C. 2011. Effects of individual pre-fledging traits and environmental conditions on return patterns in juvenile king penguins. PLoS ONE. 6:e20407.
36. Saraux C, Le Bohec C, Durant JM, Viblanc VA, Gauthier-Clerc M, Beaune D, Park YH, Yoccoz NG, Stenseth NC, Le Maho Y. 2011. Reliability of flipper-banded penguins as indicators of climate change. Nature. 469:203-206.
37. Sgoifo A, Pozzato C, Costoli T, Manghi M, Stilli D, Ferrari PF, Ceresini G, Musso E. 2001. Cardiac autonomic responses to intermittent social conflict in rats. Physiol Behav. 73:343-349.
38. Skaug H, Fournier D, Nielsen A, Magnusson A, Bolker B, 2011. glmmADMB: Generalized linear mixed models using AD Model Builder. R package version 0.5-1/r52 [Internet]. In: http://R-ForgeR-projectorg/projects/glmmadmb/.
39. Steptoe A. 2000. Stress, social support and cardiovascular activity over the working day. Int J Psychophysiol. 37:299-308.
40. Stonehouse B, 1960. The king penguin Aptenodytes patagonicus of South Georgia. In: Scientific Reports: Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey; 1-81.
41. Sueur C, Petit O, Deneubourg JL. 2010. Short-term group fission processes in macaques: a social networking approach. J Exp Biol. 213:1338-1346.
42. Trivers RL, 1972. Parental investment and sexual selection. In: Campbell B, editor. Sexual selection and the descent of man, 1871-1971. London: Heinemann.
43. Viblanc VA, Arnaud CM, Dobson FS, Murie JO, 2010. Kin selection in Columbian ground squirrels (Urocitellus columbianus): littermate kin provide individual fitness benefits. Proc R Soc Lond B. 277:989-994.
44. Viblanc VA, Mathien A, Saraux C, Viera VM, Groscolas R. 2011. It costs to be clean and fit: energetics of comfort behavior in breeding-fasting penguins. PLoS ONE. 6:e21110.
45. Viera VM, Viblanc VA, Filippi-Codaccioni O, CSD, Groscolas R, 2011. Active territory defence at a low energy cost in a colonial seabird. Anim Behav. 82:69-76.
46. Wascher CAF, Arnold W, Kotrschal K, 2008a. Heart rate modulation by social contexts in greylag geese (Anser anser). J Comp Psychol. 122:100-107.
47. Wascher CAF, Scheiber IBR, Kotrschal K, 2008b. Heart rate modulation in bystanding geese watching social and non-social events. Proc R Soc Lond B. 275:1653-1659.
48. Wascher CAF, Scheiber IBR, Weiss BM, Kotrschal K, 2009. Heart rate responses to agonistic encounters in greylag geese, Anser anser. Anim Behav. 77:955-961.
49. Weimerskirch H, Stahl JC, Jouventin P, 1992. The breeding biology and population dynamics of king penguins Aptenodytes patagonica on the Crozet Islands. Ibis. 134:107-117.
50. West-Eberhard M, 1979. Sexual selection, social competition and evolution. Proc Am Philosoph Soc. 123:222-234.
51. Wilson EO, 1975. Sociobiology: the new synthesis. Cambridge (MA): Harvard University Press.