Cross-generic Food Sharing in Tamarins |
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| Authors: | Feistner Anna T C Price Eluned C |
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| Institution: | (1) Research Department, Durrell Wildlife Conservation Trust, British Isles;(2) Research Department, Durrell Wildlife Conservation Trust, Les Augrès Manor, Trinity, Jersey, JE3 5BP Channel Islands, British Isles |
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| Abstract: | Adult-infant food-sharing behavior is a major component of the infant care strategies of callitrichids (marmosets and tamarins). It is particularly well-developed in cotton-top tamarins (Saguinus Oedipus) and lion tamarins (Leontopithecus spp), which show frequent adult-initiated food offering, as well as sharing of food in response to begging by infants. This report documents a case of cross-generic food sharing, in which a male golden-headed lion tamarin (Leontopithecus chrysomelas) shared food with an infant cotton-top tamarin. The lion tamarin provided more food to the infant than its mother did. This emphasizes the importance of this behavior in the reproductive strategies of the communally-rearing Callitrichidae and raises questions about mechanisms that underly it. |
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| Keywords: | offering food sharing food transfer Saguinus oedipus Leontopithecus chrysomelas Callitrichidae communal rearing |
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