Data from: Rival assessment among northern elephant seals: evidence of associative learning during male-male contests
Specialized signals emitted by competing males often convey honest information about fighting ability. It is generally believed that receivers use these signals to directly assess their opponents. Here, we demonstrate an alternative communication strategy used by males in a breeding system where the...
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fttriple:oai:gotriple.eu:50|dedup_wf_001::0aaed76a1f3472d2aa2f1764298b2fc0 2023-05-15T16:05:39+02:00 Data from: Rival assessment among northern elephant seals: evidence of associative learning during male-male contests Casey, Caroline Charrier, Isabelle Mathevon, Nicolas Reichmuth, Colleen 2020-06-27 https://doi.org/10.5061/dryad.6g06h undefined unknown Dryad Digital Repository https://dx.doi.org/10.5061/dryad.6g06h http://dx.doi.org/10.5061/dryad.6g06h lic_creative-commons 10.5061/dryad.6g06h oai:services.nod.dans.knaw.nl:Products/dans:oai:easy.dans.knaw.nl:easy-dataset:90193 oai:easy.dans.knaw.nl:easy-dataset:90193 10|openaire____::9e3be59865b2c1c335d32dae2fe7b254 re3data_____::r3d100000044 10|eurocrisdris::fe4903425d9040f680d8610d9079ea14 10|re3data_____::84e123776089ce3c7a33db98d9cd15a8 10|re3data_____::94816e6421eeb072e7742ce6a9decc5f 10|openaire____::081b82f96300b6a6e3d282bad31cb6e2 10|opendoar____::8b6dd7db9af49e67306feb59a8bdc52c Male-male conflict acoustic communication playback experiments social network individual recognition Mirounga angustirostris Life sciences medicine and health care envir socio Dataset https://vocabularies.coar-repositories.org/resource_types/c_ddb1/ 2020 fttriple https://doi.org/10.5061/dryad.6g06h 2023-01-22T16:51:11Z Specialized signals emitted by competing males often convey honest information about fighting ability. It is generally believed that receivers use these signals to directly assess their opponents. Here, we demonstrate an alternative communication strategy used by males in a breeding system where the costs of conflict are extreme. We evaluated the acoustic displays of breeding male northern elephant seals (Mirounga angustirostris), and found that social knowledge gained through prior experience with signallers was sufficient to maintain structured dominance relationships. Using sound analysis and playback experiments with both natural and modified signals, we determined that males do not rely on encoded information about size or dominance status, but rather learn to recognize individual acoustic signatures produced by their rivals. Further, we show that behavioural responses to competitors' calls are modulated by relative position in the hierarchy: the highest ranking (alpha) males defend their harems from all opponents, whereas mid-ranking (beta) males respond differentially to familiar challengers based on the outcome of previous competitive interactions. Our findings demonstrate that social knowledge of rivals alone can regulate dominance relationships among competing males within large, spatially dynamic social groups, and illustrate the importance of combining descriptive and experimental methods when deciphering the biological relevance of animal signals. raw dominance interaction data 2009_2013data that informed Elo scores.2011_ELO_SFplayback data, PC1 scoresplayback data.xlsxRaw Size Measurement Data 2010_2011Photometric data for all males measured during the 2010-2011 season Dataset Elephant Seals Unknown |
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Specialized signals emitted by competing males often convey honest information about fighting ability. It is generally believed that receivers use these signals to directly assess their opponents. Here, we demonstrate an alternative communication strategy used by males in a breeding system where the costs of conflict are extreme. We evaluated the acoustic displays of breeding male northern elephant seals (Mirounga angustirostris), and found that social knowledge gained through prior experience with signallers was sufficient to maintain structured dominance relationships. Using sound analysis and playback experiments with both natural and modified signals, we determined that males do not rely on encoded information about size or dominance status, but rather learn to recognize individual acoustic signatures produced by their rivals. Further, we show that behavioural responses to competitors' calls are modulated by relative position in the hierarchy: the highest ranking (alpha) males defend their harems from all opponents, whereas mid-ranking (beta) males respond differentially to familiar challengers based on the outcome of previous competitive interactions. Our findings demonstrate that social knowledge of rivals alone can regulate dominance relationships among competing males within large, spatially dynamic social groups, and illustrate the importance of combining descriptive and experimental methods when deciphering the biological relevance of animal signals. raw dominance interaction data 2009_2013data that informed Elo scores.2011_ELO_SFplayback data, PC1 scoresplayback data.xlsxRaw Size Measurement Data 2010_2011Photometric data for all males measured during the 2010-2011 season |
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Data from: Rival assessment among northern elephant seals: evidence of associative learning during male-male contests |
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Data from: Rival assessment among northern elephant seals: evidence of associative learning during male-male contests |
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data from: rival assessment among northern elephant seals: evidence of associative learning during male-male contests |
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