ArticleCurrent zoology2019
Female indris determine the rhythmic structure of the song and sustain a higher cost when the chorus size increases.
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Abstract
Among the behavioral traits shared by some nonhuman primate species and humans there is singing. Unfortunately, our understanding of animals' rhythmic abilities is still in its infancy. Indris are the only lemurs who sing and live in monogamous pairs, usually forming a group with their offspring. All adult members of a group usually participate in choruses that are emitted regularly and play a role in advertising territorial occupancy and intergroup spacing. Males and females emit phrases that have similar frequency ranges but may differ in their temporal structure. We examined whether the individuals' contribution to the song may change according to chorus size, the total duration of the song or the duration of the individual contribution using the inter-onset intervals within a phrase and between phrases. We found that the rhythmic structure of indri's songs depends on factors that are different for males and females. We showed that females have significantly higher variation in the rhythm of their contribution to the song and that, changes according to chorus size. Our findings indicate that female indris sustain a higher cost of singing than males when the number of singers increases. These results suggest that cross-species investigations will be crucial to understanding the evolutionary frame in which such sexually dimorphic traits occurred.
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