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Spontaneous color preferences in rhesus monkeys: What is the advantage of primate trichromacy?
Behavioural Processes ( IF 1.3 ) Pub Date : 2020-05-01 , DOI: 10.1016/j.beproc.2020.104084
Petra Skalníková 1 , Daniel Frynta 1 , Andran Abramjan 2 , Richard Rokyta 3 , Tereza Nekovářová 4
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Color perception and color signaling play an important role in various aspects of animal behavior. However, in mammals, trichromatic vision characterized by three retinal photopigments tuned to peak short, middle and long wavelengths is limited only to some primate species. In Old and New World primates a second photopigment has appeared repeatedly during phylogeny, allowing red colors to be distinguished from yellows and greens. Several hypotheses aspire to explain the adaptive benefits of trichromatic vision for primates. The predominant one is foraging adaptation for facilitation visual detection of fruits or young leaves. Alternative explanations are based on the function of red color in aposematic signaling or its role in socio-sexual communication. We tested spontaneous color preference in macaque monkeys (Macaca mulatta) for both food and non-food objects in a laboratory environment. We hypothesized that preference for or avoidance of red color together with the context of such behavior may help us to understand what the adaptive advantage leading to a rapid expansion of a gene for a second pigment in the long-wavelength region was. We found neither preference nor avoidance toward red color in non-food objects, but we found a significant preference for red color in food; therefore, we suggest that the results support the foraging hypothesis in macaque monkeys.

中文翻译:

恒河猴自发的颜色偏好:灵长类动物三色性的优势是什么?

颜色感知和颜色信号在动物行为的各个方面都起着重要作用。然而,在哺乳动物中,以三种视网膜感光色素为特征的三色视觉仅限于某些灵长类物种。在旧世界和新世界灵长类动物中,第二个光色素在系统发育过程中反复出现,从而可以将红色与黄色和绿色区分开来。一些假设渴望解释三色视觉对灵长类动物的适应性益处。主要的一种是觅食适应,以促进果实或幼叶的视觉检测。另一种解释是基于红色在隐喻信号中的功能或其在社会性交流中的作用。我们在实验室环境中测试了猕猴 (Macaca mulatta) 对食物和非食物物体的自发颜色偏好。我们假设偏好或避免红色以及这种行为的背景可能有助于我们了解导致长波长区域中第二种色素基因快速扩增的适应性优势是什么。我们发现在非食物物体中既没有偏好也没有避免红色,但我们发现食物中的红色显着偏好;因此,我们建议结果支持猕猴觅食假说。我们假设偏好或避免红色以及这种行为的背景可能有助于我们了解导致长波长区域中第二种色素基因快速扩增的适应性优势是什么。我们发现在非食物物体中既没有偏好也没有避免红色,但我们发现食物中的红色显着偏好;因此,我们建议结果支持猕猴觅食假说。我们假设偏好或避免红色以及这种行为的背景可能有助于我们了解导致长波长区域中第二种色素基因快速扩增的适应性优势是什么。我们发现在非食物物体中既没有偏好也没有避免红色,但我们发现食物中的红色显着偏好;因此,我们建议结果支持猕猴觅食假说。
更新日期:2020-05-01
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