Animal Social Complexity: Intelligence, Culture, and Individualized Societies

Published by Harvard University Press 2003

Animal Social Complexity

Intelligence, Culture, and Individualized Societies

Edited by: Frans B. M. de Waal and Peter L. Tyack
With contributions by: Christophe Boesch , Jack W. Bradbury , Richard Connor , Christine Drea , Anne Engh , Laurence Frank , Karen I. Hallberg , Stephanie Jaffee , Hans Kummer , Tetsuro Matsuzawa , W.C. McGrew , Sarah L. Mesnick , Toshisada Nishida , Charles L. Nunn , Eduardo B. Ottoni , Lisa A. Parr , Katherine B. Payne , Susan Perry , Ronald Schusterman , Robert Seyfarth , Jan A.R.A.M. van Hooff , Carel van Schaik , Bernhard Voelkl , Sofia Wahaj , Randall S. Wells , Meredith West , Hal Whitehead , Gerald S. Wilkinson , Harald Yurk and Klaus Zuberbuehler

https://doi.org/10.4159/harvard.9780674419131

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For over 25 years, primatologists have speculated that intelligence, at least in monkeys and apes, evolved as an adaptation to the complicated social milieu of hard-won friendships and bitterly contested rivalries. Yet the Balkanization of animal research has prevented us from studying the same problem in other large-brained, long-lived animals, such as hyenas and elephants, bats and sperm whales. Social complexity turns out to be widespread indeed. For example, in many animal societies one individual's innovation, such as tool use or a hunting technique, may spread within the group, thus creating a distinct culture. As this collection of studies on a wide range of species shows, animals develop a great variety of traditions, which in turn affect fitness and survival.

The editors argue that future research into complex animal societies and intelligence will change the perception of animals as gene machines, programmed to act in particular ways and perhaps elevate them to a status much closer to our own. At a time when humans are perceived more biologically than ever before, and animals as more cultural, are we about to witness the dawn of a truly unified social science, one with a distinctly cross-specific perspective?

Author / Editor information

de Waal Frans B. M. :

Frans B. M. de Waal is C. H. Candler Professor of Primate Behavior in the Psychology Department and Director of Living Links, part of the Yerkes Primate Center, Emory University.Tyack Peter L. :

Peter L. Tyack is Senior Scientist, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution.McGrew W.C. :

William McGrew is Professor of Anthropology and Zoology at Miami University (Ohio).Perry Susan :

?Susan Perry is Associate Professor of Anthropology at the University of California, Los Angeles.van Schaik Carel :

Carel van Schaik is Professor and Director of the Anthropological Institute and Museum, University of Zürich.

Reviews

Be prepared...for a book that is like a small library itself and one that will free you of some illusions about human uniqueness...In summary, this book is an important contribution to our knowledge of intelligence and culture in non-human species.

This excellent collection is the outcome of a conference held in 2000 under the auspices of the Chicago Academy of Sciences. Judging by the published results, the conference itself must have been a rich occasion. It must be a rare gathering that draws together for any purpose behavioural scientists specializing in such vastly different animal groups...In this case, the exercise brings a remarkably wide comparative perspective to bear on animal social complexity. Consequently, the reader is given a wealth of fine descriptive detail, but is also encouraged to step back from the detail and reflect in broader evolutionary terms on the relationship between intelligence, culture, and the cognitive demands of social relationships in individualized societies.

This book...is the latest contribution to the debate over what animals understand about their social environments and how this influences their behavior and organisation. It comprises 18 papers and several case studies by 52 prominent scientists or promising young researchers. The topics covered range from life history and cognitive evolution in primates, laughter and smiling in mammals, and vocal communication in wild parrots, to questions of emotional recognition in chimpanzees and the possibility of culture in killer whales. The volume's most notable contribution is that it brings together a collection of studies on a wide range of species and topics in an effort to provide the groundwork for future synthetic work on the organising principles underlying complex animal societies...Credit is due to De Waal and Tyack for putting together this book...It should be of interest to anyone curious about animal behavior.

This book is pure gold. It takes a broad view of the fashionable--and indeed, perpetually interesting question--how animal intelligence relates to social behavior. The contents range from sperm whales to starlings, elephants' treatment of a dead calf, and chimpanzees' use of different barks to identify different kinds of food. From it all emerges the current state of thinking on animal imitation, semantics, and the meaning and origins of culture.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	v
Preface Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	ix
I. Life History and Brain Evolution
1. Life History and Cognitive Evolution in Primates Carel P. Van Schaik and Robert O. Deaner Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	5
CASE STUDY 1Α Sociality and Disease Risk: A Comparative Study of Leukocyte Counts in Primates Charles L. Nunn Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	26
2. Dolphin Social Complexity: Lessons from Long-Term Study and Life History Randall S. Wells Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	32
3. Sources of Social Complexity in the Three Elephant Species Κaty Payne Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	57
II. Evolution of Cooperative Strategies
4. Complex Cooperation among Taï Chimpanzees Christophe Boesch Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	93
CASE STUDY 4A Coalitionary Aggression in White-Faced Capuchins Susan Perry Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	111
CASE STUDY 4B Levels and Patterns in Dolphin Alliance Formation Richard C. Connor and Michael Krützen Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	115
5. The Social Complexity of Spotted Hyenas Christine M. Drea and Laurence G. Frank Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	121
CASE STUDY 5A Maternal Rank “Inheritance” in the Spotted Hyena Anne Engh and Kay E. Holekamp Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	149
6. Is Social Stress a Consequence of Subordination or a Cost of Dominance? Scott Creel and Jennifer L. Sands Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	153
CASE STUDY 6A Sperm Whale Social Structure: Why It Takes a Village to Raise a Child Sarah L. Mesnick, Karen Evans, Barbara L. Taylor, John Hyde, Sergio Escorza-Trevino and Andrew E. Dizon Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	170
III. Social Cognition
7. Equivalence Classification as an Approach to Social Knowledge: From Sea Lions to Simians Ronald J. Schusterman, Colleen Reichmuth Kastak and David Kastak Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	179
8. The Structure of Social Knowledge in Monkeys Robert M. Seyfarth and Dorothy L. Cheney Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	207
9. Social Syntax: The If-Then Structure of Social Problem Solving Frans Β. Μ. De Waal Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	230
CASE STUDY 9A Conflict Resolution in the Spotted Hyena Sofia A. Wahaj and Kay E. Holekamp Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	249
IV. Communication
10. Laughter and Smiling: The Intertwining of Nature and Culture Jan A. R. A. M. Van Hooff and Signe Preuschoft Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	260
CASE STUDY 10A Emotional Recognition by Chimpanzees Lisa A. Parr Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	288
11. Vocal Communication in Wild Parrots Jack W. Bradbury Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	293
CASE STUDY 11A Representational Vocal Signaling in the Chimpanzee Karen I. Hallberg, Douglas A. Nelson and Sarah T. Boysen Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	317
12. Social and Vocal Complexity in Bats Gerald S. Wilkinson Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	322
13. Dolphins Communicate about Individual-Specific Social Relationships Peter L. Tyack Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	342
CASE STUDY 13A Natural Semanticity in Wild Primates Klaus Zuberbühler Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	362
V. Cultural Transmission
14. Koshima Monkeys and Bossou Chimpanzees: Long-Term Research on Culture in Nonhuman Primates Tetsuro Matsuzawa Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	374
CASE STUDY 14A Movement Imitation in Monkeys Bernhard Voelkl and Ludwig Huber Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	388
15. Individuality and Flexibility of Cultural Behavior Patterns in Chimpanzees Toshisada Nishida Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	392
CASE STUDY 15A Sex Differences in Termite Fishing among Gombe Chimpanzees Stephanie S. Pandolfi, Carel P. Van Schaik and Anne E. Pusey Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	414
16. Ten Dispatches from the Chimpanzee Culture Wars W. C. Mcgrew Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	419
CASE STUDY 16A Spontaneous Use of Tools by Semifree-ranging Capuchin Monkeys Eduardo Β. Ottoni and Massimo Mannu Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	440
17. Society and Culture in the Deep and Open Ocean: The Sperm Whale and Other Cetaceans Hal Whitehead Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	444
CASE STUDY 17A Do Killer Whales Have Culture? Harald Yurk Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	465
18. Discovering Culture in Birds: The Role of Learning and Development Meredith J. West, Andrew P. King and David J. White Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	470
References Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	495
Acknowledgments Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	594
Contributors Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	601
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	607

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Language: English
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Edition: Reprint 2014
Audience: Professional and scholarly;
Pages
- Front matter: 14
- Main content: 640
Illustrations
- Other: 49 halftones, 74 line illustrations
Keywords: SCIENCE / Life Sciences / Zoology / General; SCIENCE / Life Sciences / Developmental Biology; SCIENCE / Life Sciences / Biology; Mammals -- Behavior -- Congresses.; Social behavior in animals -- Congresses.

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Published: February 5, 2003
ISBN: 9780674419124