Marine Mammal Science, Journal Year: 2024, Volume and Issue: unknown
Published: July 1, 2024
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Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences, Journal Year: 2025, Volume and Issue: 380(1925)
Published: May 1, 2025
Social learning and animal culture can influence conservation outcomes in significant ways. Culture is a dynamic phenomenon; socially learned behaviours be transmitted within and/or between generations among populations, which facilitate resilience, or other circumstances generate vulnerability. driver of evolutionary diversification, population structure demography, shaping sociality influencing underlying biological processes such as reproduction survival, affecting fitness. This theme issue synthesizes the current state knowledge on cultural variation major vertebrate taxa, offering practical insights how social interface directly with interventions. It ranges over topics that include translocations, human-wildlife interactions adaptation to anthropogenic change. complex; integrating into challenging. No one-size-fits-all policy recommended. Instead, we aim balance understanding diversity implementations this nascent field, exploring supporting developing pathways towards efficiencies. Key themes emerge conserving capacity, benefits data sharing, along intrinsic value cultures role Indigenous Peoples local communities.This article part 'Animal culture: changing world'.
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Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences, Journal Year: 2024, Volume and Issue: 379(1897)
Published: Jan. 21, 2024
Human communities teem with a variety of social norms. In order to change unjust and harmful norms, it is crucial identify the psychological processes that give rise them. Most researchers take for granted norms are uniquely human. By contrast, we approach this matter from comparative perspective, leveraging recent research on animal behaviour. While there currently only suggestive evidence in nonhuman communities, argue human likely produced by wide range mechanisms, many which share animals. Approaching variability perspective can help norm expand reframe hypotheses they test when attempting understand causes socially normative behaviours humans. First, diagnose some theoretical obstacles developing science offer few basic constructs distinctions overcome these obstacles. Then develop six-dimensional model factors contribute both potential This article part theme issue ‘Social change: drivers consequences’.
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Royal Society Open Science, Journal Year: 2024, Volume and Issue: 11(1)
Published: Jan. 1, 2024
Sperm whale society is structured into clans that are primarily distinguished by vocal dialects, which may be symbolic markers of clan identity. However, also differ in non-vocal behaviour. These distinctive behaviours, as well membership itself, learned socially, largely within matrilines. The can contain thousands whales and span kilometres. Two or more typically use an area, but the only socialize with members their own clan. In many respects closest parallel ethno-linguistic groups humans. Patterns processes human prehistory instructive studying sperm include: extreme variability societies; no clear link between modes resource acquisition social structure; patterns vocalizations not map onto other behavioural distinctions; interacting societies deliberately distinguish behaviour (schismogenesis). Conversely, while two species very different, existence large-scale structures both humans supports some primary drivers phenomenon common to (such cognition, cooperation, culture mobility) contraindicates others (e.g. tool-making syntactic language).
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Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Journal Year: 2022, Volume and Issue: 119(37)
Published: Sept. 8, 2022
Culture, a pillar of the remarkable ecological success humans, is increasingly recognized as powerful force structuring nonhuman animal populations. A key gap between these two types culture quantitative evidence symbolic markers-seemingly arbitrary traits that function reliable indicators cultural group membership to conspecifics. Using acoustic data collected from 23 Pacific Ocean locations, we provide certain sperm whale signals exhibit spatial patterns consistent with marker function. Culture segments populations into behaviorally distinct clans, which are defined based on dialects stereotyped click (codas). We classified 23,429 codas using contaminated mixture models and hierarchically clustered coda repertoires seven clans similarities in usage; then evaluated whether usage varied geographic distance within or overlap clans. Similarities within-clan both "identity codas" (coda diagnostic clan identity) "nonidentity used by multiple clans) decrease space repertoire recording locations increases. However, between-clan similarity identity, but not nonidentity, decreases This matches expectations if sympatry related measurable pressure diversify make divisions sharper, thereby providing identity markers identity. Our study provides traits, resembling human ethnic markers, conveying outside highlights distributions ethnolinguistic groups
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Current Biology, Journal Year: 2024, Volume and Issue: 34(2), P. 444 - 450.e5
Published: Jan. 1, 2024
The appreciation of music is a universal trait humankind.1Zatorre R.J. Salimpoor V.N. From perception to pleasure: and its neural substrates.Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA. 2013; 110: 10430-10437Crossref PubMed Scopus (0) Google Scholar,2Singh M. Mehr S.A. Universality, domain-specificity development psychological responses music.Nat Rev Psychol. 2023; 2: 333-346Crossref (2) Scholar,3Trehub S.E. developmental origins musicality.Nat. Neurosci. 2003; 6: 669-673Crossref (302) Scholar Evidence supporting this notion includes the ubiquity across cultures4Savage P.E. Brown S. Sakai E. Currie T.E. Statistical universals reveal structures functions human music.Proc. 2015; 112: 8987-8992Crossref (263) Scholar,5Ravignani A. Delgado T. Kirby Musical evolution in lab exhibits rhythmic universals.Nat. Hum. Behav. 2017; 1: 1-7Google Scholar,6Jacoby N. Undurraga E.A. McPherson M.J. Valdés J. Ossandón McDermott J.H. Universal non-universal features musical pitch revealed by singing.Curr. Biol. 2019; 29: 3229-3243.e12Abstract Full Text PDF (53) Scholar,7Mehr Singh Knox D. Ketter D.M. Pickens-Jones Atwood Lucas C. Jacoby Egner A.A. Hopkins E.J. et al.Universality diversity song.Science. 366: 1-17Crossref (233) natural predisposition toward that humans display early development.8Edalati Wallois F. Safaie Ghostine G. Kongolo Trainor L.J. Moghimi Rhythm premature neonate brain: very processing auditory beat meter.J. 43: 2794-2802Crossref (3) Scholar,9Perani Saccuman M.C. Scifo P. Spada Andreolli Rovelli R. Baldoli Koelsch Functional specializations for newborn brain.Proc. 2010; 107: 4758-4763Crossref Scholar,10Winkler I. Háden G.P. Ladinig O. Sziller Honing H. Newborn infants detect 2009; 106: 2468-2471Crossref (370) Are we animals because species-specific predispositions? This question cannot be answered relying on cross-cultural or studies alone, as these rule out enculturation.11Hauser M.D. faculty: comparative perspective.Nat. 663-668Crossref (152) Instead, it calls cross-species experiments testing whether homologous mechanisms underlying are present non-human primates. We two rhesus monkeys, reared without exposure, while recording electroencephalography (EEG) pupillometry. Monkeys exhibit higher engagement encoding expectations based previously seeded context when passively listening real opposed shuffled controls. then compare monkey same stimuli find species-dependent contribution fundamental features—pitch timing12Krumhansl C.L. cognition.Psychol. Bull. 2000; 126: 159-179Crossref Scholar—in generating expectations: timing- pitch-based expectations13Pearce M.T. learning probabilistic prediction cognition: stylistic enculturation.Ann. Y. 2018; 1423: 378-395Crossref (78) similarly weighted humans, monkeys rely timing rather than pitch. Together, results shed light phylogeny perception. They highlight monkeys' capacity temporal beyond plain acoustic processing, they identify time- pitch-related expectations.
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Journal of Experimental Biology, Journal Year: 2024, Volume and Issue: 227(4)
Published: Jan. 24, 2024
ABSTRACT Sperm whales (Physeter macrocephalus) are social mega-predators who form stable matrilineal units that often associate within a larger vocal clan. Clan membership is defined by sharing repertoire of coda types consisting specific temporal spacings multi-pulsed clicks. It has been hypothesized codas communicate across socially segregated sympatric clans, but others propose primarily used for behavioral coordination and cohesion closely spaced unit. Here, we test these hypotheses combining measures ambient noise levels click source with models sound propagation to estimate the active space communication. Coda clicks were localized off island Dominica four- or five-element 80 m vertical hydrophone array, allowing us calculate median RMS 1598 from 444 be 161 dB re. 1 μPa (IQR 153–167), placing among most powerful communication sounds in toothed whales. However, together measured levels, lead ∼4 km, reflecting maximum footprint single foraging sperm whale We conclude while may contain information about clan affiliation, their moderate shows not long range acoustic between likely serve mediate transitions intra-unit
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Scientific Reports, Journal Year: 2025, Volume and Issue: 15(1)
Published: April 14, 2025
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Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences, Journal Year: 2025, Volume and Issue: 380(1925)
Published: May 1, 2025
Culture-socially transmitted behaviours shared within a community-can influence animal populations' structure, vulnerability and resilience. Clans of sperm whales in the Eastern Tropical Pacific (ETP) exemplify profound culture on these dynamics highlight challenges accounting for conservation efforts. Globally, are classified as vulnerable, ETP whale population has struggled to reach positive growth rate. This stagnation is partly due cumulative anthropogenic threats region, including fishing conflicts, vessel traffic, pollution, deep sea mining, oil gas exploration, climate change. The United Nations Convention Migratory Species adopted Concerted Action 2017, proposing collaborative efforts address cultural dimensions conservation. However, knowledge gaps real-world implementation persist. Here, we review role social transmission shaping behaviour populations, outline current environmental stressors they face ETP, discuss ongoing incorporating into large-scale international Strengthening transnational collaboration capitalizing new technologies efficient analysis can help bridge enhance future research this iconic species.This article part theme issue 'Animal culture: changing world'.
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Science Advances, Journal Year: 2025, Volume and Issue: 11(6)
Published: Feb. 5, 2025
Vocal communication systems in humans and other animals experience selection for efficiency—optimizing the benefits they convey relative to costs of producing them. Two hallmarks efficiency, Menzerath’s law Zipf’s abbreviation, predict that longer sequences will consist shorter elements more frequent be shorter, respectively. Here, we assessed evidence both laws cetaceans by analyzing vocal from 16 baleen toothed whale species comparing them 51 human languages. Eleven exhibit law, sometimes with greater effect sizes than speech. five categorized element types abbreviation. On average, whales also tend shorten intervals toward end sequences, although this varies species. Overall, results study suggest vocalizations many cetacean have undergone compression increased efficiency time.
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Marine Pollution Bulletin, Journal Year: 2025, Volume and Issue: 214, P. 117742 - 117742
Published: March 1, 2025
Understanding the main drivers of behavioural disturbance in deep-diving cetaceans would improve predictions anthropogenic noise effects on individual animals, habitats and populations. To investigate potential roles received level source distance disturbance, we tagged 14 sperm whales northern Norway with multi-sensor data loggers conducted dose-escalation experiments. Each experiment included 1 to 4 individuals involved multiple vessel passes ('exposure sessions', n = 25 total) by a navy frigate or research towing naval sonar, at different starting distances maximum levels. We analysed behaviour state series proxies for locomotor activity foraging success generalized additive mixed models. The probability occurrence non-foraging active was affected level, session order, decreased effort higher levels shorter distances, during subsequent sessions (indicating short-term sensitisation). Prey capture attempts increasing when kept foraging. Similar what has been suggested some populations blue beaked regularly exposed but unlike bottlenose more pristine waters, whale responses high-latitude ground.
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