Beliefs of Life After Death and Social Partner Choice

2019 ◽  
pp. 1-3
Author(s):  
Christie Chung
Keyword(s):  
Partner Choice ◽  
Social Partner ◽  
Life After Death

scholarly journals Courtship behaviour influences social partner choice in male guppies

Behaviour ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 157 (10-11) ◽  
pp. 923-947
Author(s):  
Heather L. Auld ◽  
Jean-Guy J. Godin
Keyword(s):  
Poecilia Reticulata ◽  
Public Information ◽  
Partner Choice ◽  
Courtship Behaviour ◽  
Social Partner ◽  
Male Courtship ◽  
Association Preference ◽  
Social Associations ◽  
Courtship Displays ◽  
Social Association

Abstract Although male courtship displays have evolved primarily to sexually attract females, they also generate inadvertent public information that potentially reveals the courter’s relative sexual attractiveness and the perceived quality and sexual receptivity of the female being courted to nearby eavesdropping male competitors, who in turn may use this information to bias their social partner choices. We tested this hypothesis by first presenting individual eavesdropping male guppies (Poecilia reticulata) the opportunity to simultaneously observe two demonstrator males whose courtship behaviour was manipulated experimentally to differ, following which we tested them for their preference to associate socially with either demonstrator males. Test males preferentially associated with the demonstrator male who they had previously observed courting a female over the other (non-courting) demonstrator. This social association preference was not expressed in the absence of a female to court. Our findings highlight the potential for sexual behaviour influencing male-male social associations in nature.

Plumage variation and social partner choice in the greater flamingo (Phoenicopterus roseus)

Zoo Biology ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 35 (5) ◽  
pp. 409-414 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hani D. Freeman ◽  
Annie J. Valuska ◽  
Ryan R. Taylor ◽  
Gina M. Ferrie ◽  
Alison P. Grand ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Partner Choice ◽  
Social Partner

Third-party punishers do not compete to be chosen as partners

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tommaso Batistoni ◽  
Pat Barclay ◽  
Nichola Raihani
Keyword(s):  
Empirical Work ◽  
Positive Association ◽  
Relative Strength ◽  
Partner Choice ◽  
Third Party ◽  
Trust Game ◽  
Social Partner ◽  
Honest Signal ◽  
Audience Effects ◽  
Interaction Partners

Third-party punishment has been hypothesised to act as an honest signal of cooperative intent. Previous theoretical and empirical work has shown that individuals might escalate signals of cooperative intent when there is competition to be chosen as a partner. Here, we investigate the hypothesis that competition to be chosen as a social partner leads to escalating investment in third-party punishment. In the same scenario, we also consider the case of signalling via helpful acts to provide a direct test of the relative strength of the two types of signals. Investments in third-party helping were higher than investments in third-party punishment – and also exhibited a more robust positive association with audience effects. We did not find a clear effect of partner choice (over and above simply being observed) on either punishment or helping investments. Third-parties who invested more in helping were preferred as partners and were sent more money in a subsequent trust game. Third-party punishers were slightly preferred as interaction partners but less so than third-party helpers. In addition, we found that the amount invested in third-party punishment or helping was a reliable indicator of the individual’s trustworthiness: those who invested more returned a higher proportion of any entrusted amount. Individuals who did not invest in third-party helping were more likely to be untrustworthy, but the same was not true for individuals who did not invest in third-party punishment. This supports the conception of help as a less ambiguous signal of cooperative intent.

scholarly journals The role of social cognition in parasite and pathogen avoidance

2018 ◽  
Vol 373 (1751) ◽  
pp. 20170206 ◽  
Author(s):  
Martin Kavaliers ◽  
Elena Choleris
Keyword(s):  
Social Cognition ◽  
Social Learning ◽  
Social Information ◽  
Social Recognition ◽  
Partner Choice ◽  
Social Partner ◽  
Pathogen Avoidance ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Parasite Avoidance

The acquisition and use of social information are integral to social behaviour and parasite/pathogen avoidance. This involves social cognition which encompasses mechanisms for acquiring, processing, retaining and acting on social information. Social cognition entails the acquisition of social information about others (i.e. social recognition) and from others (i.e. social learning). Social cognition involves assessing other individuals and their infection status and the pathogen and parasite threat they pose and deciding about when and how to interact with them. Social cognition provides a framework for examining pathogen and parasite avoidance behaviours and their associated neurobiological mechanisms. Here, we briefly consider the relationships between social cognition and olfactory-mediated pathogen and parasite avoidance behaviours. We briefly discuss aspects of (i) social recognition of actual and potentially infected individuals and the impact of parasite/pathogen threat on mate and social partner choice; (ii) the roles of ‘out-groups’ (strangers, unfamiliar individuals) and ‘in-groups’ (familiar individuals) in the expression of parasite/pathogen avoidance behaviours; (iii) individual and social learning, i.e. the utilization of the pathogen recognition and avoidance responses of others; and (iv) the neurobiological mechanisms, in particular the roles of the nonapeptide, oxytocin and steroid hormones (oestrogens) associated with social cognition and parasite/pathogen avoidance. This article is part of the Theo Murphy meeting issue ‘Evolution of pathogen and parasite avoidance behaviours'.

Ontogeny and symmetry of social partner choice among free-living yellow-bellied marmots

2013 ◽  
Vol 85 (4) ◽  
pp. 715-725 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jennifer E. Smith ◽  
Lawrance K. Chung ◽  
Daniel T. Blumstein
Keyword(s):  
Partner Choice ◽  
Social Partner ◽  
Free Living

scholarly journals Friendship across species borders: factors that facilitate and constrain heterospecific sociality

2018 ◽  
Vol 373 (1746) ◽  
pp. 20170014 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hari Sridhar ◽  
Vishwesha Guttal
Keyword(s):  
Movement Ecology ◽  
Single Species ◽  
Literature Survey ◽  
Partner Choice ◽  
Social Benefits ◽  
Social Partner ◽  
Theme Issue ◽  
Phenotypic Distance ◽  
Trait Space

Our understanding of animal sociality is based almost entirely on single-species sociality. Heterospecific sociality, although documented in numerous taxa and contexts, remains at the margins of sociality research and is rarely investigated in conjunction with single-species sociality. This could be because heterospecific and single-species sociality are thought to be based on fundamentally different mechanisms. However, our literature survey shows that heterospecific sociality based on mechanisms similar to single-species sociality is reported from many taxa, contexts and for various benefits. Therefore, we propose a conceptual framework to understand conspecific versus heterospecific social partner choice. Previous attempts, which are all in the context of social information, model partner choice as a trade-off between information benefit and competition cost, along a single phenotypic distance axis. Our framework of partner choice considers both direct grouping benefits and information benefits, allows heterospecific and conspecific partners to differ in degree and qualitatively, and uses a multi-dimensional trait space analysis of costs (competition and activity matching) and benefits (relevance of partner and quality of partner). We conclude that social partner choice is best-viewed as a continuum: some social benefits are obtainable only from conspecifics, some only from dissimilar heterospecifics, while many are potentially obtainable from conspecifics and heterospecifics. This article is part of the theme issue ‘Collective movement ecology'.

Not only mate choice matters: fitness consequences of social partner choice in female house mice

2008 ◽  
Vol 75 (3) ◽  
pp. 801-808 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andrea Weidt ◽  
Sarah E. Hofmann ◽  
Barbara König
Keyword(s):  
Mate Choice ◽  
Partner Choice ◽  
House Mice ◽  
Social Partner ◽  
Fitness Consequences
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