Computerized assessment of dominance hierarchy in baboons (Papio papio).

Automatized testing Dominance hierarchy Monkey Social cognition Supplanting behaviours

Journal

Behavior research methods
ISSN: 1554-3528
Titre abrégé: Behav Res Methods
Pays: United States
ID NLM: 101244316

Informations de publication

Date de publication:
10 2021
Historique:
accepted: 11 01 2021
pubmed: 10 3 2021
medline: 21 10 2021
entrez: 9 3 2021
Statut: ppublish

Résumé

Dominance hierarchies are an important aspect of Primate social life, and there is an increasing need to develop new systems to collect social information automatically. The main goal of this research was to explore the possibility to infer the dominance hierarchy of a group of Guinea baboons (Papio papio) from the analysis of their spontaneous interactions with freely accessible automated learning devices for monkeys (ALDM, Fagot & Bonté Behavior Research Methods, 42, 507-516, 2010). Experiment 1 compared the dominance hierarchy obtained from conventional observations of agonistic behaviours to the one inferred from the analysis of automatically recorded supplanting behaviours within the ALDM workstations. The comparison, applied to three different datasets, shows that the dominance hierarchies obtained with the two methods are highly congruent (all rs ≥ 0.75). Experiment 2 investigated the experimental potential of inferring dominance hierarchy from ALDM testing. ALDM data previously published in Goujon and Fagot (Behavioural Brain Research, 247, 101-109, 2013) were re-analysed for that purpose. Results indicate that supplanting events within the workstations lead to a transient improvement of cognitive performance for the baboon supplanting its partners and that this improvement depends on the difference in rank between the two baboons. This study therefore opens new perspectives for cognitive studies conducted in a social context.

Identifiants

pubmed: 33687699
doi: 10.3758/s13428-021-01539-z
pii: 10.3758/s13428-021-01539-z
doi:

Types de publication

Journal Article Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

Langues

eng

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1923-1934

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© 2021. The Psychonomic Society, Inc.

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Auteurs

Julie Gullstrand (J)

Laboratory of Cognitive Psychology, CNRS UMR 7290, Aix-Marseille University, 3 Place Victor Hugo, Bât. 9, Case D, 13331, Marseille cedex 1, France. julie.gullstrand@univ-amu.fr.
Station de Primatologie-Celphedia, Rousset, France. julie.gullstrand@univ-amu.fr.

Nicolas Claidière (N)

Laboratory of Cognitive Psychology, CNRS UMR 7290, Aix-Marseille University, 3 Place Victor Hugo, Bât. 9, Case D, 13331, Marseille cedex 1, France.
Station de Primatologie-Celphedia, Rousset, France.

Joël Fagot (J)

Laboratory of Cognitive Psychology, CNRS UMR 7290, Aix-Marseille University, 3 Place Victor Hugo, Bât. 9, Case D, 13331, Marseille cedex 1, France.
Station de Primatologie-Celphedia, Rousset, France.

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