Alpha male black howler monkey responses to loud calls: effect of numeric odds, male companion behaviour and reproductive investment

By D. Kitchen. 2004

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Subfields: Developmental Biology, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Social Psychology

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Chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes) modify grouping and vocal behaviour in response to location-specific risk (2007, unknown): “Pant-hoot choruses likely provide an honest signal of group size, much as the roars of lions (McComb et al., 1994) or howls of howler monkeys Alouatta spp. (Kitchen, 2004), in that it is impossible to fake the sound of overlapping calls of multiple individuals.”
Factors affecting individual participation in group-level aggression among non-human primates (2007, unknown): “For example, when groups of black howler monkeys (Alouatta pigra) meet, the respective alpha males will often display, but whether they are joined by any or all of their group mates varies from group to group and from encounter to encounter (Kitchen, 2004).”
Sexual Selection in the Loud Calls of Male Primates: Signal Content and Function (2006, background): “Data from closely related black howlers indicate that males assess the relative fighting ability of other groups based on numerical odds (Kitchen, 2003), but there is no evidence that the acoustic signals provide cues for direct caller assessment.”
Monkeys match the number of voices they hear to the number of faces they see. (2005, background): “Given the established social expertise of nonhuman primates [23–26] and the suggestion that wild animals use the number of vocalizations they hear to make defensive decisions [16, 17], we ex-”
Ecological and social factors affect the occurrence and outcomes of intergroup encounters in chimpanzees (2012, unknown): “For example, male black howler monkeys, Alouatta pigra, respond more aggressively to the calls of foreign males when young infants are present in their own group, presumably to protect their infants from the risk of infanticide (Kitchen 2004).”
Roars of black howler monkeys (Alouatta caraya): evidence for a function in inter-group spacing (2006, background): “In the first case the call informs about some trait of the individual/group related to its ability to defend the resource under dispute, such as size (Bee et al., 1999), weight (Reby & McComb, 2003), condition (Kitchen et al., 2003), status, numbers (McComb et al., 1994; Kitchen, 2004 ), etc.”
Numerical assessment and individual call discrimination by wild spotted hyaenas, Crocuta crocuta (2011, unknown): “Spotted hyaenas thus show numerical assessment abilities comparable to those of lions, chimpanzees and howler monkeys (McComb et al. 1994; Wilson et al. 2001; Kitchen 2004).”