Social Integration

4/24/02


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Social Integration

Meerkat

Recognition Process

Limits on repertoire size

Recognition issues

Recognition mechanisms

Neighbor-stranger discrimination provides an example of recognition by spatial location

Vocal signatures

Kin recognition in salamanders

Multiple Histocompatibility Complex

Mice and humans prefer alternate MHC

Male-female integration

Copulation synchronization

Pairbond behaviors

Triumph ceremony in Greylag geese

Duets

Pheromone delivery in salamanders

Parent-offspring recognition

Pup recognition in Mexican free-tailed bats

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Isolation call measurements

Call complexity and colony size

Isolation calls are heritable

Parent-offspring conflict

Group integration

Group recognition vocalizations

Groups have distinct calls

Females learn to match calls

Appeasement signals

Group cohesion calls

Coordination of group movement

Bee dances signal hive choice

Isoptera - all termites

Author: Jerry Wilkinson

Email: gw10@umail.umd.edu

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