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2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marissa A. Ramsier ◽  
Andrew J. Cunningham ◽  
May R. Patiño ◽  
Kenneth E. Glander ◽  
Nathaniel J. Dominy

AbstractThe eponymous vocalizations of howling monkeys (genus Alouatta) are associated with territorial defense and male-male competition, yet the extreme loudness of howls, which are among the loudest vocalizations of any terrestrial mammal, have yet to be fully explained. Loudness facilitates long-distance sound propagation but the effectiveness of any vocal signal depends in part on the auditory capabilities of the intended receiver, and the auditory sensitivities of howling monkeys are unknown. To better understand the evolution of loud calls, we used the auditory brainstem response (ABR) method to estimate the auditory sensitivities of Alouatta palliata. The mean estimated audiogram of four wild-caught adults displayed a w-shaped pattern with two regions of enhanced sensitivity centered at 0.7-1.0 and 11.3 kHz. The lower-frequency region of auditory sensitivity is pitched moderately higher than the fundamental frequencies of howling, whereas the higher-frequency region corresponds well with harmonics in an infant distress call, the wrah-ha. Fitness advantages from detecting infants amid low-frequency background noise, including howling, could explain the incongruity between our ABR thresholds and the fundamental frequencies of howling. Attending to infant calls is expected to enhance reproductive success within an infanticidal genus, and we suggest that the extraordinary loudness of male howling is an indirect (runaway) result of positive feedback between the selective pressures of hearing infant distress calls and deterring infanticide.


2016 ◽  
Vol 161 (4) ◽  
pp. 705-721 ◽  
Author(s):  
James D. Pampush ◽  
Jackson P. Spradley ◽  
Paul E. Morse ◽  
Arianna R. Harrington ◽  
Kari L. Allen ◽  
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Primates ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 57 (2) ◽  
pp. 161-166 ◽  
Author(s):  
José Eduardo Reynoso-Cruz ◽  
Ariadna Rangel-Negrín ◽  
Alejandro Coyohua-Fuentes ◽  
Domingo Canales-Espinosa ◽  
Pedro Américo D. Dias
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2014 ◽  
Vol 154 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-10 ◽  
Author(s):  
Cynthia L. Thompson ◽  
Susan H. Williams ◽  
Kenneth E. Glander ◽  
Mark F. Teaford ◽  
Christopher J. Vinyard

2013 ◽  
Vol 100 (10) ◽  
pp. 923-933 ◽  
Author(s):  
R. R. Valle ◽  
F. M. Carvalho ◽  
J. A. P. C. Muniz ◽  
C. L. V. Leal ◽  
M. García-Herreros

Author(s):  
Lisa M. Paciulli ◽  
Jamie L. Neary
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2008 ◽  
Vol 70 (3) ◽  
pp. 282-293 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michelle Bezanson ◽  
Paul A. Garber ◽  
John T. Murphy ◽  
L. S. Premo

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