Relation Between Food Preference and Food-Elicited Vocalizations in Golden Lion Tamarins (Leontopithecus rosalia )

We report the results of 2 studies on food-elicited vocalizations in golden lion tamarins ( Leontopithecus rosalia ). First, we investigated the preferences of 10 golden lion tamarins for 6 foods. Tamarins prefer mealworms and raisins significantly more than apple, egg, carrot, or marmoset diet. Foo...

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Published in:Journal of comparative psychology (1983) 1992-06, Vol.106 (2), p.142-149
Main Authors: Benz, Joseph J, Leger, Daniel W, French, Jeffrey A
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Affect
Animal
Animal behavior
Animal Communication
Animal ethology
Animal Feeding Behavior
Animal Vocalizations
Animals
Biological and medical sciences
Callitrichinae - psychology
Female
Food
Food Preferences
Food Preferences - psychology
Fundamental and applied biological sciences. Psychology
Male
Mammalia
Monkeys
Monkeys & apes
Psychology. Psychoanalysis. Psychiatry
Social Environment
Sound Spectrography
Vertebrata
Vocalization, Animal
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Summary:We report the results of 2 studies on food-elicited vocalizations in golden lion tamarins ( Leontopithecus rosalia ). First, we investigated the preferences of 10 golden lion tamarins for 6 foods. Tamarins prefer mealworms and raisins significantly more than apple, egg, carrot, or marmoset diet. Food preference rank was significantly and positively correlated with the rank of latency to choose a particular food. Second, we investigated the relation between food preference and 15 vocal parameters measured from the calls emitted by 5 tamarins to a subset of the foods. Only 1 parameters was significantly correlated with food preference across animals. Within-subjects multivariate analysis of variance showed that the vocalizations to foods are significantly different. Our results support an hypothesis that food-elicited vocalizations vary in ways that correspond to the caller's preference but not in a manner that labels food type.
ISSN:0735-7036
1939-2087
DOI:10.1037/0735-7036.106.2.142