TY - JOUR
T1 - Come dine with me: food-associated social signalling in wild bottlenose dolphins (Tursiops truncatus)
AU - King, Stephanie
AU - Janik, V.M.
PY - 2015
Y1 - 2015
N2 - © 2015, Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg. Food-related signalling is widespread in the animal kingdom with some food-associated vocalizations considered functionally referential. Food calls can, however, vary greatly in the type of information they convey. Thus, there are a multitude of purposes for which food calls are used, including social recruitment, caller spacing, the indication of type, quantity, quality, divisibility of food, the caller’s hunger level and even as tools to manipulate prey behaviour. Yet little work has focused on the social aspect of food calling in animals. We investigated the association of social signals in wild bottlenose dolphins with foraging behaviour where context-specific food-associated calls are commonly produced. Our data showed that specific social signals were significantly correlated with food call production and these calls rarely occurred in the absence of food calls. We suggest that animals are sharing additional information on the food patch itself with their social affiliates.
AB - © 2015, Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg. Food-related signalling is widespread in the animal kingdom with some food-associated vocalizations considered functionally referential. Food calls can, however, vary greatly in the type of information they convey. Thus, there are a multitude of purposes for which food calls are used, including social recruitment, caller spacing, the indication of type, quantity, quality, divisibility of food, the caller’s hunger level and even as tools to manipulate prey behaviour. Yet little work has focused on the social aspect of food calling in animals. We investigated the association of social signals in wild bottlenose dolphins with foraging behaviour where context-specific food-associated calls are commonly produced. Our data showed that specific social signals were significantly correlated with food call production and these calls rarely occurred in the absence of food calls. We suggest that animals are sharing additional information on the food patch itself with their social affiliates.
UR - http://research-repository.uwa.edu.au/en/publications/come-dine-with-me-foodassociated-social-signalling-in-wild-bottlenose-dolphins-tursiops-truncatus(89bafdec-07ec-4758-82f6-fd9d0c5d01f5).html
U2 - 10.1007/s10071-015-0851-7
DO - 10.1007/s10071-015-0851-7
M3 - Article (Academic Journal)
C2 - 25688042
JO - Animal Cognition
JF - Animal Cognition
SN - 1435-9448
ER -