BEHAVIOR OF NONHUMAN PRIMATES: MODERN RESEARCH TRENDS

By D. LALIO

CONTENTS CHAPTER PRIMATES AS AUDITORY SPECIALISTS CHAPTER CAUSAL KNOWLEDGE IN FREE-RANGING DIANA MONKEYS AUDITORY TEMPORAL INTEGRATION IN PRIMATES: A COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS MECHANISMS OF ACOUSTIC PERCEPTION IN THE COTTON-TOP TAMARIN PSYCHOPHYSICAL AND PERCEPTUAL STUDIES OF PRIMATE COMMUNICATION CALLS PRIMATE VOCAL PRODUCTION AND ITS IMPLICATIONS FOR AUDITORY RESEARCH DEVELOPMENTAL MODI?CATIONS IN THE VOCAL BEHAVIOR OF NON-HUMAN PRIMATES ECOLOGICAL AND PHYSIOLOGICAL CONSTRAINTS FOR PRIMATE VOCAL COMMUNICATION NEURAL REPRESENTATION OF SOUND PATTERNS IN THE AUDITORY CORTEX OF MONKEYS REPRESENTATION OF SOUND LOCATION IN THE PRIMATE BRAIN THE COMPARATIVE ANATOMY OF THE PRIMATE AUDITORY CORTEX AUDITORY COMMUNICATION AND CENTRAL AUDITORY MECHANISMS IN THE SQUIRREL MONKEY: PAST AND PRESENT CORTICAL MECHANISMS OF SOUND LOCALIZATION AND PLASTICITY IN PRIMATES ANATOMY AND PHYSIOLOGY OF AUDITORY–PREFRONTAL INTERACTIONS IN NON-HUMAN PRIMATES CORTICAL PROCESSING OF COMPLEX SOUNDS AND SPECIES-SPECI?C VOCALIZATIONS IN THE MARMOSET MONKEY (CALLITHRIX JACCHUS) PRIMATES AS AUDITORY SPECIALISTS I INTRODUCTION II AVOIDING PREDATORS III FINDING FOOD A DIRECT AUDITORY CUES B INDIRECT AUDITORY CUES IV FINDING (AND KEEPING) A MATE A COPULATION CALLS B PRIMATE SONGS V A SOCIOECOLOGICALLY SENSIBLE AUDITORY NEUROSCIENCE A TEMPORAL CUES IN RHESUS MONKEY CALLS B TEMPORAL CUES IN TAMARIN LONG CALLS VI CONCLUSION REFERENCES I INTRODUCTION A BRIEF SURVEY OF THE ANIMAL KINGDOM QUICKLY REVEALS AN IMPRESSIVE ARRAY OF SENSORY SPECIALIZATIONS, EACH ENGINEERED TO SOLVE A PARTICULAR TYPE OF ADAPTIVE PROBLEM SUCH A DIVERSE COLLECTION OF ADAPTIVE SPECIALIZATIONS IS ESPECIALLY PREVALENT IN THE AUDITORY DOMAIN ACOUSTIC ENGINEERS WOULD LIKELY BE IMPRESSED BY THE DIVERSE SOLUTIONS DIFFERENT ANIMALS HAVE FOUND TO THE PROBLEMS OF SOUND LOCALIZATION, AUDITORY DIS- CRIMINATION, AND VOCAL RECOGNITION ECHOLOCATING BATS, FOR EXAMPLE, HAVE AN AUDITORY SYSTEM EXQUISITELY TUNED FOR NOCTURNAL PREY CATCHING THEY ARE ABLE TO USE THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN THE SOUND OF AN EMITTED VOCALIZATION AND ITS SUBSEQUENT ECHO TO IDENTIFY AND LOCALIZE MOVING TARGETS IN A DARK ENVIRONMENT SIMILARLY, THE AUDITORY SYSTEMS OF MANY ANURAN AND AVIAN SPECIES ARE SPECI?CALLY TUNED FOR RECOGNIZING MATING CALLS AND OTHER CONSPECI?C VOCALIZATIONS UNFORTUNATELY, WHEN ONE THINKS OF THE IMPRESSIVE AUDITORY SPECIALIZATIONS OF THE ANIMAL KINGDOM, ONE RARELY CONSIDERS THOSE OF ANIMALS WITHIN THE PRIMATE ORDER ALTHOUGH HUMAN PRIMATES CLEARLY POSSESS SPECIALIZED MECHANISMS FOR PROCESSING SPEECH, FEW CONSIDER THE AUDITORY SYSTEMS OF OTHER PRIMATE SPECIES TO BE EXEMPLARY