Female putty-nosed monkeys (Cercopithecus nictitans) vocally recruit males for predator defence.

ABSTRACT: Alarm calls can trigger very different behavioural changes in receivers and signallers might apply different alarm call strategies based on their individual cost-benefit ratio. These cost-benefit ratios can also vary as a function of sex. For instance, male but not female forest guenons possess loud alarms that serve warning and predator deterrence functions, but also intergroup spacing and male-male competition. In some forest guenons, the context specificity and alarm call repertoire size additionally differs between females and males but it remains unclear if this corresponds to similar sexual dimorphisms in alarm calling strategies. We here experimentally investigated whether general female and more context-specific male alarm calls in putty-nosed monkeys (Cercopithecus nictitans

SUBMITTER: Mehon FG 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8074898 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature