Development of visual preference for closely related species by infant and juvenile macaques with restricted social experience |
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Authors: | Kazuo Fujita |
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Institution: | (1) Department of Behavioral and Brain Sciences, Primate Research Institute, Kyoto University, Kanrin, Inuyama, 484 Aichi, Japan |
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Abstract: | Japanese and rhesus monkeys aged between 9 months old and 5 yrs old pressed a lever to see a variety of pictures of seven
macaque species. These monkeys had various restricted social experience: namely, either reared by humans with conspecific
or heterospecific peers, or cross-fostered between these two species. Rhesus monkeys tended to prefer seeing rhesus monkeys
best among the pictures of the seven species without regard to their age or social experience. Japanese monkeys having restricted
experience also liked to see rhesus monkeys better than Japanese monkeys, but not the best among the seven species. In a previous
study, mother-reared infants of Japanese monkeys preferred seeing pictures of their own species over those of rhesus monkeys.
These results suggest a dissociation of the determinants of this basic social preference: rhesus monkeys prefer to see their
own species by nature while Japanese monkeys may learn to prefer their own species. |
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Keywords: | Social perception Species recognition Cognitive development Visual preference Macaque monkeys |
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