期刊
PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES
卷 279, 期 1744, 页码 4042-4050出版社
ROYAL SOC
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2012.1470
关键词
anti-predator behaviour; primate communication; social bond; cooperation; alarm calls; relationship quality
资金
- University of Portsmouth, Department of Psychology
- Saxon State Ministry for Science and the Arts
- German Research Council (DFG) [EN 719/2]
- Volkswagen Foundation
- Primate Conservation Inc
Enduring positive social bonds between individuals are crucial for humans' health and well being. Similar bonds can be found in a wide range of taxa, revealing the evolutionary origins of humans' social bonds. Evidence suggests that these strong social bonds can function to buffer the negative effects of living in groups, but it is not known whether they also function to minimize predation risk. Here, we show that crested macaques (Macaca nigra) react more strongly to playbacks of recruitment alarm calls (i.e. calls signalling the presence of a predator and eliciting cooperative mobbing behaviour) if they were produced by an individual with whom they share a strong social bond. Dominance relationships between caller and listener had no effect on the reaction of the listener. Thus, strong social bonds may improve the coordination and efficiency of cooperative defence against predators, and therefore increase chances of survival. This result broadens our understanding of the evolution and function of social bonds by highlighting their importance in the anti-predator context.
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