Selfish or altruistic? An analysis of alarm call function in wild capuchin monkeys, Cebus apella nigritus

By Brandon C. Wheeler. 2008

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

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Citations in the corpus

Chapter 8 Survivor Signals (2009, methodology): “In capuchin monkeys, alarm calls to felids appear to be addressed to both predators and conspecifics; this can leads to cooperative defense behavior, which is also seen after alarm calls to raptors (Wheeler, 2008).”
Production and perception of situationally variable alarm calls in wild tufted capuchin monkeys (Cebus apella nigritus) (2010, methodology): “Second, because alarm calling among tufted capuchins tends to attract conspecific mobbers (Wheeler 2008) who often begin to call once they have detected the predator model, calls given after this initial period could not always be easily assigned to a particular individual.”
The development of alarm-call behaviour in mammals and birds (2009, background): “Studies of alarm call behaviour have therefore proved invaluable for our understanding of such issues as kin selection, nepotism, reciprocal altruism and cooperation (Sherman 1977; Hoogland 1996; Krams et al. 2006; Wheeler 2008).”
Food-associated vocalizations in mammals and birds: what do these calls really mean? (2012, background): “…incompatibility of escape responses (Macedonia & Evans 1993; but see earlier discussion for cases where escape strategies are not incompatible or not the usual reaction to alarm calls: e.g. Fichtel & Kappeler 2002; Digweed et al. 2005; Wheeler 2008), feeding poses no such incompatibility problem.”
Safety in numbers: the dilution effect and other drivers of group life in the face of danger (2016, background): “remains debated today (e.g. Charnov and Krebs 1975; Wheeler 2008).”