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. 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 parameter 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.
Benz
J J
JJ
University of Nebraska-Lincoln.
Leger
D W
DW
French
J A
JA
D000339:Affect; D000819:Animal Communication; D000818:Animals; D002143:Callitrichinae / Q000523:psychology*; D005260:Female; D005518:Food Preferences / Q000523:psychology*; D008297:Male; D012931:Social Environment; D013018:Sound Spectrography; D014828:Vocalization, Animal