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Brandon C. Wheeler 《Behavioral ecology and sociobiology》2010,64(6):989-1000
Many mammalian and avian species produce conspicuous vocalizations upon encountering a predator, but vary their calling based
on risk urgency and/or predator type. Calls falling into the latter category are termed “functionally referential” if they
also elicit predator-appropriate reactions in listeners. Functionally referential alarm calling has been well documented in
a number of Old World monkeys and lemurs, but evidence among Neotropical primates is limited. This study investigates the
alarm call system of tufted capuchin monkeys (Cebus apella nigritus) by examining responses to predator and snake decoys encountered at various distances (reflecting differences in risk urgency).
Observations in natural situations were conducted to determine if predator-associated calls were given in additional contexts.
Results indicate the use of three call types. “Barks” are elicited exclusively by aerial threats, but the call most commonly
given to terrestrial threats (the “hiccup”) is given in nonpredatory contexts. The rate in which this latter call is produced
reflects risk urgency. Playbacks of these two call types indicate that each elicits appropriate antipredator behaviors. The
third call type, the “peep,” seems to be specific to terrestrial threats, but it is unknown if the call elicits predator-specific
responses. “Barks” are thus functionally referential aerial predator calls, while “hiccups” are better seen as generalized
disturbance calls which reflect risk urgency. Further evidence is needed to draw conclusions regarding the “peep.” These results
add to the evidence that functionally referential aerial predator alarm calls are ubiquitous in primates, but that noncatarrhine
primates use generalized disturbance calls in response to terrestrial threats. 相似文献
2.
In the meerkat (Suricata suricatta), a cooperative mongoose, pups follow potential feeders while the group is foraging and emit incessant calls when soliciting
food from them. In contrast to a ’stationary’ brood of chicks, in which nestlings are fed at a fixed location, meerkat pups
are ’mobile’ and become spread out. The question arises whether meerkat pups that experience different constraints to those
facing chicks have evolved similar begging strategies. This paper describes the vocalisations that meerkat pups emit in the
context of begging and investigates the influence of these calls on food allocation by older group members and on the behaviour
of littermates. Meerkat pups use two types of calls when soliciting food from a potential feeder. The most common is a ’repeat’
call, which pups emit continuously when following an older forager over several hours a day. In addition, when a potential
feeder finds a prey item, the pups next to it emit a bout of calls with increased calling rate, amplitude and fundamental
frequency, termed ’high-pitched’ calls. Observations, together with playback experiments, showed that more prey was allocated
to pups that called longer and more intensely. The pup closest to a feeder was almost always fed. The probability of emitting
high-pitched calls did not depend on the time since a pup had received food, and the change from repeat to high-pitched calls
occurred suddenly. The main function of the high-pitched call, therefore, does not appear to be to signal a pup’s hunger state.
More likely, the two calls, in the context of begging, may be an adaptation to energetic constraints in a mobile feeding system.
Pups, which are dispersed during foraging, may emit repeat calls over long periods to prevent potential feeders from eating
all the prey themselves. At the moment a potential feeder finds prey, pups may give the more intense high-pitched calls to
direct feeders to bring the food item to them and not to a littermate. Therefore, unlike the stationary feeding system where
chicks emit one type of begging call when the feeder approaches the nest, meerkats, with a mobile feeding system, have evolved
two discrete types of vocalisations in the context of begging.
Received: 22 November 1999 / Revised: 1 July 2000 / Accepted: 17 July 2000 相似文献
3.
Michael S. Reichert 《Behavioral ecology and sociobiology》2010,64(4):529-539
Males in many chorusing anuran species use aggressive calls during defense of calling spaces from other males. The minimal
intensity of another male’s vocalizations that elicits an aggressive call response has been termed the aggressive threshold.
Previous studies of aggressive thresholds have shown that they are plastic: males habituated (increased their aggressive thresholds)
in response to repeated presentation of stimuli above initial threshold levels. Habituation likely contributes to the stable
chorus structure of these species, in which aggressive calling is rare compared to advertisement calls. I have observed high
levels of aggressive calling in the treefrog Dendropsophus ebraccatus, suggesting that males of this species do not habituate. In this study, I investigated the plasticity of aggressive thresholds
in D. ebraccatus. I measured the aggressive thresholds of males before and after suprathreshold stimulation by both advertisement and aggressive
calls. I found that the different call types had different effects: males habituated to advertisement calls but lowered their
aggressive thresholds in response to aggressive calls. I consider the latter response to be an example of sensitization, a
behavior that has been documented infrequently in vocalizing anurans. Sensitization is a plausible mechanism responsible for
the high levels of aggressive calling observed in this species. Given the high costs of aggressive calling, however, it is
unclear why a mechanism that increases aggressive call output would be maintained. 相似文献
4.
An animal’s use of space may be strongly influenced by habitat edges and neighboring conspecifics encountered in and around
its home range. Habitat edges are known to affect species density and distribution, but their impact on home range use is
largely unknown. Additionally, among large animals, interactions with neighbors become particularly important as increasing
home range size leads to decreasing exclusivity of resource use, but the effect of neighbors on home range use remains poorly
understood. Here, we examine the influence of neighbors and habitat edges on the ranging patterns of three groups of Phayre’s
leaf monkeys (Trachypithecus phayrei crepusculus) in northeast Thailand over a period of more than 2 years. The study animals occupied dry evergreen forest, and adjacent
patches of dry dipterocarp forest created a habitat edge and formed barriers between some groups. We found that the use of
home range interiors was 50–90% higher than the border areas, indicating concentrated use of resources within the home range.
The use of peripheral areas was influenced by social organization, the presence of neighboring groups, and forest edges. While
one multimale group showed no particular habitat preference, two single-male groups preferred areas bordering dry dipterocarp
habitat and avoided areas bordering neighboring groups, suggesting that the threat of neighbors mediated border presence.
Additionally, groups may have been attracted to the forest edge, where conspecific competitors are absent and increased sunlight
may increase resource abundance and/or quality. This study revealed that the use of border areas can be modulated by neighboring
groups and habitat edges, thereby adding to our understanding of home range use among territorial species in heterogeneous
habitats. 相似文献
5.
Michael S. Reichert 《Behavioral ecology and sociobiology》2011,65(9):1739-1751
In addition to producing signals, males of chorusing species also act as receivers by adjusting properties of their vocalizations
in response to those of other nearby individuals. Although it is likely that males are responsive to more than one other individual,
most playback studies investigating male response have involved dyads in which vocal responses are measured to stimuli presented
from a single speaker. In this study, I explored changes in both the propensity to give aggressive calls and the temporal
properties of those calls in response to the playback of multiple aggressive call stimuli in the treefrog Dendropsophus ebraccatus. I found that males were sensitive to both the number of simulated aggressive callers and their specific call characteristics.
Males generally gave a highly aggressive response to the first stimulus presented, but their response to the modification
of this stimulus by the addition or subtraction of a simulated competitor depended on the degree of aggressiveness of the
stimuli. Males tended to decrease their aggressive responses when either a more aggressive call was silenced or a less aggressive
call was added and to increase their aggressive responses in the opposite situation. Aggressive calling in this species is
clearly affected by complex changes in the social environment and I suggest that future studies explore these issues in other
species to improve the understanding of communication interactions. 相似文献
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Simon W. Townsend Markus Zöttl Marta B. Manser 《Behavioral ecology and sociobiology》2011,65(10):1927-1934
Socio-demographic factors, such as group size and their effect on predation vulnerability, have, in addition to intrinsic
factors, dominated as explanations when attempting to understand animal vigilance behaviour. It is generally assumed that
animals evaluate these external factors visually; however, many socially foraging species adopt a foraging technique that
directly compromises the visual system. In these instances, such species may instead rely more on the acoustical medium to
assess their relative risk and guide their subsequent anti-predator behaviour. We addressed this question in the socially
foraging meerkat (Suricata suricatta). Meerkats forage with their head down, but at the same time frequently produce close calls (‘Foraging’ close calls). Close
calls are also produced just after an individual has briefly scanned the surrounding environment for predators (‘Guarding’
close calls). Here, we firstly show that these Guarding and Foraging close call variants are in fact acoustically distinct
and secondly subjects are less vigilant (in terms of frequency and time) when exposed to Guarding close call playbacks than
when they hear Foraging close calls. We argue that this is the first evidence for socially foraging animals using the information
encoded within calls, the main adaptive function of which is unrelated to immediate predator encounters, to coordinate their
vigilance behaviour. In addition, these results provide new insights into the potential cognitive mechanisms underlying anti-predator
behaviour and suggest meerkats may be capable of signalling to group members the ‘absence’ of predatory threat. If we are
to fully understand the complexities underlying the coordination of animal anti-predator behaviour, we encourage future studies
to take these additional auditory and cognitive dimensions into account. 相似文献
7.
Chorusing males of the neotropical treefrog Hyla microcephala call in distinct bouts punctuated by periods of silence, a pattern known as unison bout singing. Schwartz (1991) previously tested and refuted the hypotheses that males periodically stop calling either because of a female preference for males that call cyclically, or because high ambient noise levels inhibit vocal activity. Males of H. microcephala are vocally responsive to the calls of other males, and during calling bouts their rate of note production can exceed 10,000 per hour. In natural choruses females preferentially pair with males that call at the higher rates. Because females can pair with males over many hours, males may stop calling periodically to save energy so they can continue to call for the entire period that females are available. We directly tested this energy conservation hypothesis by collecting samples of males early in the evening just after chorusing commenced and later when chorusing had ended for the night. Trunk muscles (internal and external oblique), which are responsible for the airflow associated with note production, were dissected, frozen, and their glycogen content measured. Data on calling behavior were obtained for late-evening samples. Individual calling behavior was not correlated with a males final glycogen level. In addition, many males ended their calling before glycogen reserves were exhausted, indicating that factors other than energy can determine when males finally stop chorusing, However, the biochemical assays supported the energy conservation hypothesis. Unless chorusing was punctuated by pauses, most males would have been unable to sustain high rates of calling for an entire evening without exhausting glycogen reserves in their trunk muscles. Because the time females pair with males is probably unpredictable to males, the ability to call for long periods may improve a males chances of mating. 相似文献
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Erin A. Falcone Gregory S. Schorr Annie B. Douglas John Calambokidis Elizabeth Henderson Megan F. McKenna John Hildebrand David Moretti 《Marine Biology》2009,156(12):2631-2640
The relationship between beaked whales and certain anthropogenic sounds remains poorly understood and of great interest. Although
Cuvier’s beaked whales (Ziphius cavirostris) are widely distributed, little is known of their behavior and population structure throughout much of their range. We conducted
a series of five combined visual-acoustic marine mammal surveys from 2006 to 2008 in the southern San Nicolas Basin, a site
of frequent naval activity off the southern California coast, west of San Clemente Island. The study area was defined by a
1,800 km2 array of 88 bottom-mounted hydrophones at depths up to 1,850 m. The array was used to vector visual observers toward vocalizing
marine mammal species. Thirty-seven groups of Cuvier’s beaked whales were encountered during the study period. The overall
encounter rate was one group for every 21.0 h of survey effort, and was as high as one group per 10.2 h of effort during the
October 2007 survey. Whales were encountered in the deepest portion of the study area, at a mean bottom depth of 1,580 m (SD
138). The average group size was 3.8 individuals (SD 2.4), which was higher than has been reported from other studies of this
species. Twenty-four groups were observed over multiple surfacings (median = 4 surfacings, range 2–15). The mean encounter
duration of extended sightings was 104 min (SD 98, range 12–466 min) and the mean distance moved over the course of sightings
was 1.66 km (SD 1.56, range 0.08–6.65 km). Temporal surfacing patterns during extended encounters were similar to dive behavior
described from Cuvier’s beaked whales carrying time-depth recording tags. Seventy-eight photographic identifications were
made of 58 unique individuals, for an overall resighting rate of 0.26. Whales were sighted on up to 4 days, with duration
from first to last sighting spanning 2–79 days. For those whales sighted on subsequent days, the mean distance between subsequent
sightings was 8.6 km (SD 7.9). Individuals resighted over 2–3 days were usually in association with previous group members.
Approximately one-third of groups contained more than one adult male, and many of the repeated associations involved adult
males. These observations suggest the basin west of San Clemente Island may be an important region for Cuvier’s beaked whales,
and also one which affords an unusual opportunity to collect detailed data on this species. Given its status as an active
military range, it can also provide the ability to monitor the behavior of individuals in the presence of naval sonar, a critical
step in the management of this and other beaked whale populations worldwide. 相似文献
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Christine R. Hurd 《Behavioral ecology and sociobiology》1996,38(4):287-292
The species and number of birds attracted to playbacks of mobbing calls and song of the black-capped chickadee, Parus atricapillus, were compared. The chickadee vocalizations were played at abandoned chickadee nests, and the numbers and species of other
birds that approached the speaker were tallied. Few non-chickadees were observed in the area when the song was played. That
significantly more birds approached the speaker and displayed mobbing behavior during the mobbing call playback suggests that
black-capped chickadee mobbing vocalizations carry meaning for at least ten other avian species. This finding supports the
idea that species subjected to the same predators in an area may benefit by recognizing each others’ predator calls. This
recognition may be facilitated by the similar structure of different species’ mobbing calls and also a learned association
of another species’ call with the presence of a predator.
Received: 23 March 1995 /Accepted after revision: 28 October 1995 相似文献
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Benni W. Hansen Guillaume Drillet Reinhardt M. Kristensen Thomas F. Sørensen Majken T. Tøttrup 《Marine Biology》2010,157(1):59-68
Close to 50 species of marine Calanoid copepods have been reported to produce diapause eggs (Engel and Hirche in J Plankton
Res 26:1083–1093, 2004); eggs that are viable but require a refractory phase before they hatch, sometimes after months. Diapause eggs are often
described as morphologically different with respect to egg membrane ultrastructure and having a thicker egg shell with surface
ornamentation as opposed to the smooth shell found in subitaneous eggs that hatch within days (Belmonte in J Mar Syst 15:35–39,
1998; Chen and Marcus in Mar Biol 127:587–597, 1997; Castro-Longoria in Crustaceana 74:225–236, 2001). Egg production rates, egg surface ornamentation, and hatching success were monitored in large aquaculture fish enclosures
during winter with close to zero water temperatures (N57°). Surprisingly, all female copepods (Acartia spp.—presumably A. tonsa, and Centropages hamatus) produced eggs all through the winter with no obvious pattern with respect to light, temperature and food availability, and
no diapause eggs were observed. However, individual females produced several categories of eggs with or without surface spines
even within the same egg batch as evidenced by scanning electron microscopy (SEM). Four egg categories were distinguishable:
‘no spines’, smooth eggs; ‘short spines’, 5–15 μm long; ‘truncated spines’, with the spine tips cut-off <10 μm long; and ‘long
spines’, up to 30 μm long. All egg categories remained unchanged with respect to surface structures from when we took them
out of the incubation bottles until they hatched. In general, the frequency of ‘no spines’ was 10–40%, and most eggs were
ornamented with ‘short-’ or ‘long spines’. Further, a given egg can be ornamented with all types of surface spines simultaneously,
which might even be a fifth egg category. The different egg categories were all able to hatch within days when exposed to
normoxic conditions suggesting that they were subitaneous. 相似文献
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This study investigates the reproductive strategy, an important component in the estimation of stock reproductive potential,
in Norwegian spring-spawning (NSS) herring (Clupea harengus), an iteroparous, extreme capital spawner, through the estimation of fecundity over a period of 3 years including two complete
maturation cycles and three spawning seasons. NSS herring have an ‘optimistic’ strategy, with almost all adult herring caught
in August being in the vitellogenic stage of ovary development, despite overwintering energy levels not being determined at
this time. Fecundity in the summer, i.e., more than half a year before spawning in spring (February–April), was also much
higher than could be supported by an individual’s concurrent energy levels. Consequently, fecundity was later reduced through
atresia with the majority of this occurring before overwintering. The total reduction and the length of the time period in
which the reduction took place appeared to vary between years. During the spawning season, atresia was mostly prevalent in
small first-time spawners <180 g and several individuals aborted ovary development at this time. Final fecundity varied between
years with a difference of up to 18% and was linked to annual variations in condition. In conclusion, this extensive field
study has demonstrated that each individual herring can display a suite of size-specific reproductive tactics to fine-tune
oocyte production in response to fluctuating levels of planktonic prey. 相似文献
12.
Kate Arnold Yvonne Pohlner Klaus Zuberbühler 《Behavioral ecology and sociobiology》2008,62(4):549-559
Some non-human primates produce acoustically distinct alarm calls to different predators, such as eagles or leopards. Recipients
respond to these calls as if they have seen the actual predator, which has led to the notion of functionally referential alarm
calls. However, in a previous study with free-ranging putty-nosed monkeys (Cercopithecus nictitans martini), we demonstrated that callers produced two acoustically distinct alarm calls to eagle shrieks and leopard growls, but both
alarm calls were given to both predators. We can think of two basic explanations for this surprising result, a methodological
and theoretical one. Firstly, acoustic predator models may not always be suitable to test alarm call behaviour in primates,
sometimes causing uncharacteristic behaviour. Secondly, referential alarm calling may not be a universal feature of primate
alarm call systems. Considering the methodological and theoretical importance of these possibilities, we conducted a follow-up
study using life-sized leopard, eagle, and human models on the same population and compared the resulting vocal responses
to those given to acoustic predator models. We compared the alarm call series given to each of these predator model types
and found a considerable degree of consistency suggesting that the mode of presentation did not affect anti-predator calling
strategies. However, evidence for audience effects on calling behaviour was inconclusive. While it appears that predator class
is reliably encoded by different call series types irrespective of the mode of presentation, observations of these same call
series given in non-predatory contexts indicate that predator class is unlikely to be the relevant organising principle underlying
the alarm-calling behaviour in this species. We conclude by offering an alternative, non-referential, account of the alarm-calling
system exhibited by this species.
Electronic supplementary material The online version of this article (doi:) contains supplementary material, which is available to authorized users. 相似文献
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Tara R. Harris 《Behavioral ecology and sociobiology》2006,61(2):317-329
In theory, between-group contest (BGC) competition for food can greatly influence female social relationships and reproductive success in primates, but few studies have investigated whether such effects occur and, if so, under what ecological conditions. There is evidence that adult male black and white colobus monkeys (Colobus guereza, “guerezas”) defend the food their mates need against other groups, suggesting that BGC competition is important in this species. Using data on feeding, ranging, vegetation patterns, and intergroup encounters between six neighboring guereza groups, I provide evidence that the highly folivorous guerezas at Kanyawara, Kibale National Park, Uganda, engaged in BGC competition over unevenly dispersed, relatively high-quality feeding areas or “core areas”. Intergroup aggression was common, and groups’ home ranges overlapped. Groups were more likely to initiate high-level aggression if they encountered another group within or near their core area, and groups that initiated and won encounters often fed in the same areas in which losing groups had fed. Guerezas fed selectively on species with contagious (clumped) distributions and concentrated their feeding efforts in areas of the forest that contained the most food (core areas). Groups could be ranked in a linear dominance hierarchy, and group rank number was inversely related to the quantity and quality of food in groups’ core areas. This study not only provides good evidence that BGC competition occurs in primates but it also reinforces the idea that folivore food resources may be worth defending. 相似文献
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Most studies suggest that during times of nutritional stress, an animal faced with two foraging choices should follow a risk-prone
strategy, choosing the option with highest payoff variance. This “scarcity/risk” hypothesis was developed to account for the
foraging patterns of small animals with high metabolic rates susceptible to the threat of starvation. In this paper, we propose
that animals should also be risk-prone when their diet quality is particularly high, far exceeding that which is needed to
survive. Under these circumstances, the costs of experiencing a low or negative payoff can easily be recouped. We suggest
that large-bodied omnivores are most likely to adopt this “abundance/risk” strategy. We investigate this question among wild
chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes) that choose between a risk-averse strategy of feeding on plant material and a risk-prone strategy of hunting red colobus
monkeys. Using 14 years of data on the Kanyawara chimpanzees of Kibale National Park, Uganda, we find strong evidence that
chimpanzees follow the “abundance/risk” strategy. Both hunting rate (hunts/100 observation hours) and the probability of hunting
upon encountering red colobus monkeys were positively correlated with seasonal consumption of ripe drupe fruits, a class of
preferred food associated with elevated reproductive performance by females. Critically, these results remained statistically
significant after controlling for the potentially confounding effects of male chimpanzee party size and the presence of sexually
receptive females. These findings suggest that the relationship between risk-sensitive foraging and diet quality depends upon
the daily probability of starvation, the number of alternative foraging strategies, and the degree to which diet quality satisfies
an animal’s nutritional requirements. 相似文献
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James A. R. Marshall John M. McNamara Alasdair I. Houston 《Behavioral ecology and sociobiology》2011,65(3):417-420
The year 2009 marked both the bicentenary of Charles Darwin’s birth, and the passage of 150 years since the publication of
his revolutionary book, commonly referred to as The Origin of Species (Darwin 1859). As part of the national celebrations that took place in the UK, a meeting on ‘Mathematical Models in Ecology and Evolution’
was held in Bristol on September 10 and 11, with a special focus on the mathematical modelling and application of Darwin’s
key theories. This special issue collects together selected papers presented at the meeting, including contributions by the
four invited keynote speakers, Rob Boyd, A. W. F. Edwards, Hanna Kokko and Franjo Weissing, as well as papers received after
the event. The topics of these papers span the modelling of a very wide range of Darwin’s ideas, particularly evolution through
natural selection, the origin of species, sexual selection, altruism and cooperation, and pangenesis, as well as applications
of Darwinian thinking to the behaviour of animals, humans, and even human societies. It is hoped that this collection of papers
will provide a useful snapshot of the state-of-the-art in Darwinian theory after the last one and a half centuries, and help
to identify potential directions for research over the next. 相似文献
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Black-capped chickadees Poecile atricapillus alter the number of D notes of their chick-a-dee call to reflect urgency and threat. Here, I tested whether heterospecific
responses of an allopatric species to these mobbing calls occur. Heterospecific chickadee mobbing calls and songs from North
America were broadcast to European great tits (Parus major) and compared with conspecific mobbing calls. During conspecific mobbing playbacks, all great tits approached the speaker,
during the heterospecific “chick-a-dee” playbacks, 63.3% individuals approached the speaker, while during the song playback,
only 31.3% of the great tits approached the speaker. Minimum distances of great tits were lower during conspecific mobbing
calls compared to allopatric chick-a-dee calls and to allopatric chickadee song. Also, minimum distances were lower when comparing
allopatric chick-a-dee calls and chickadee song. Great tits approached the speaker on average down to (mean ± SE) 20.0 ± 1.8 m
during playbacks of 1–4 D elements, to 17.7 ± 2.0 m during playbacks of 5–7 D elements and down to 11.5 ± 2.0 m during playbacks
of 8–11 D elements. The number of D notes was inversely related to minimum distance. Thus, the urgency message encoded in
the D notes was perceived also by an allopatric but phylogenetically related European species, suggesting that the heterospecific
response is possibly phylogenetically conserved. 相似文献
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Klaus Zuberbühler 《Behavioral ecology and sociobiology》2001,50(5):414-422
One of the most prominent behavioural features of many forest primates are the loud calls given by the adult males. Early observational studies repeatedly postulated that these calls function in intragroup spacing or intergroup avoidance. More recent field experiments with Diana monkeys (Cercopithecus diana) of Taï Forest, Ivory Coast, have clearly shown that loud male calls function as predator alarm calls because calls reliably (1) label different predator classes and (2) convey semantic information about the predator type present. Here, I test the alarm call hypothesis another primate, the Campbell's monkey (C. campbelli). Like Diana monkeys, male Campbell's monkeys produce conspicuous loud calls to crowned hawk eagles (Stephanoaetus coronatus) and leopards (Panthera pardus), two of their main predators. Playback experiments showed that monkeys responded to the predator category represented by the different playback stimuli, regardless of whether they consisted of (1) vocalisations of the actual predators (crowned hawk eagle shrieks or leopard growls), (2) alarm calls to crowned hawk eagles or leopards given by other male Campbell's monkeys or (3) alarm calls to crowned hawk eagles or leopards given by sympatric male Diana monkeys. These experiments provide further evidence that non-human primates have evolved the cognitive capacity to produce and respond to referential labels for external events. 相似文献
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Alecos Demetriades Xiangdong Li Michael H. Ramsey Iain Thornton 《Environmental geochemistry and health》2010,32(6):529-552
In the Lavrion urban area study, Hellas, a five-step sequential extraction method was applied on samples of ‘soil’ (n = 224), affected by long-term mining and metallurgical activities, and house dust (n = 127), for the purpose of studying the potential bioaccessibility of lead and other metals to humans. In this paper, the
Pb concentrations in soil and house dust samples are discussed, together with those in rocks and children’s blood. Lead is
mainly associated with the carbonate, Fe–Mn oxides and residual fractions in soil and house dust. Considering the very low
pH of gastric fluids (1–3), a high amount of metals, present in soil (810–152,000 mg/kg Pb) and house dust (418–18,600 mg/kg Pb),
could be potentially bioaccessible. Consequently, children in the neighbourhoods with a large amount of metallurgical processing
wastes have high blood-Pb concentrations (5.98–60.49 μg/100 ml; median 17.83 μg/100 ml; n = 235). It is concluded that the Lavrion urban and sub-urban environment is extremely hazardous to human health, and the
Hellenic State authorities should urgently tackle this health-related hazard in order to improve the living conditions of
local residents. 相似文献
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Jean Vernin Hervé Trinquet George Jumper Edmund Murphy Anthony Ratkowski 《Environmental Fluid Mechanics》2007,7(5):371-382
Herein we present a campaign dedicated to the detection and the characterization of Gravity Waves (GW) in the Earth’s atmosphere
in relation to the generation of Optical Turbulence (OT). The observations took place in France from 17 to 24 July 2002 at
the Haute Provence Observatory (OHP) and simultaneously at the Sirene Observatory, some 20 km apart. From both sites, several
balloons were launched that measured the classical PTU-Wind profiles and additionally the structure constant of the temperature
field vertical profiles. A Generalized Scidar (GS) technique was implemented at the 1.93 m-diameter OHP telescope, providing profiles every minute. From our observations, a significant amount of GW activity was observed at both sites, but without
clear evidence of correlation between the two sites. It seems from our observations that a wide spectrum of GW is present
at a given altitude and that this could result in a lack of correlation between observations made from two sites 20 km apart.
Most GW are non-stationary with long horizontal wavelengths (λ ∼ 100–200 km), kilometric vertical wavelengths (λ ~ 0.5–2 km)
and long intrinsic period (T ~ 2–15 h). They belong in the category of “hydrostatic rotating or non-rotating waves”. Layers of optical turbulence detected
by balloons and the Scidar technique correlate well with regions of GW activity.
The U.S. Government’s right to retain a non-exclusive, royalty-free license in and to any copyright is acknowledged. 相似文献
20.
Variation of the amplification effect of burrows of the leptodactylid frog Eupsophus emiliopugini on conspecific calls generated externally was investigated. Advertisement calls broadcast through a loudspeaker placed in
the vicinity of a burrow were monitored with small microphones positioned inside and outside the cavity. For 150 presentations
of calls of 15 individuals in 12 burrows, 134 were amplified and 16 were attenuated (range –6–13 dB). The fundamental resonant
frequency of burrows, measured with broadcast noise and pure tones, averaged 814 Hz (range 302–1361 Hz) and covaried with
burrow length. The dominant frequency of the calls of burrow occupants (average 1062 Hz, range 636–1459 Hz) was not correlated
with the fundamental resonant frequency of these cavities. In burrows with low resonant frequencies, externally broadcast
calls with high dominant frequencies were attenuated, or amplified to a lower extent than calls with lower dominant frequencies.
The dominant frequencies of the calls experienced shifts towards the burrows’ fundamental resonant frequencies. The amplification
of calls inside burrows of E. emiliopugini exhibits manifest variability, with considerable potential for facilitating acoustic interactions in this species.
Received: 18 July 1999 / Received in revised form: 19 July 1999 / Accepted: 25 July 1999 相似文献