Female lions can identify potentially infanticidal males from their roars
1993; Royal Society; Volume: 252; Issue: 1333 Linguagem: Inglês
10.1098/rspb.1993.0046
ISSN1471-2954
AutoresKaren McComb, Anne E. Pusey, Craig Packer, Jon Grinnell,
Tópico(s)Animal Behavior and Reproduction
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B.25259–64http://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.1993.0046SectionRestricted accessArticleFemale lions can identify potentially infanticidal males from their roars Karen Mccomb Google Scholar Find this author on PubMed Search for more papers by this author , Anne Pusey Google Scholar Find this author on PubMed Search for more papers by this author , Craig Packer Google Scholar Find this author on PubMed Search for more papers by this author and Jon Grinnell Google Scholar Find this author on PubMed Search for more papers by this author Karen Mccomb Google Scholar Find this author on PubMed , Anne Pusey Google Scholar Find this author on PubMed , Craig Packer Google Scholar Find this author on PubMed and Jon Grinnell Google Scholar Find this author on PubMed Published:22 April 1993https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.1993.0046AbstractDespite evidence from several bird, fish and mammal species that listeners can discriminate between the vocalizations of familiar and unfamiliar adult conspecifics, direct links between discriminatory abilities and fitness benefits have been difficult to identify. In free-ranging populations of African lions (Panthera leo), females with cubs face a substantial threat from one particular category of unfamiliar individuals: infanticidal males. Here we use playback experiments to demonstrate that females with cubs can distinguish immediately between roars from their own resident males (the fathers of the cubs) and those from unfamiliar, potentially infanticidal males. Although they remain relaxed when played roars from resident males, they immediately become agitated on hearing unfamiliar males and retreat rapidly with their cubs if the latter have reached about 4.5 months of age. These responses are not simply a function of the roarers being unfamiliar, for when played the roars of unfamiliar females, females with cubs consistently approach the loudspeaker. Furthermore, females often move towards the cubs in response to playbacks of unfamiliar males but not in response to playbacks of unfamiliar females or resident males. Our results suggest how females with cubs might, by quickly detecting and categorizing unfamiliar intruders within their territory, protect their cubs from infanticidal males and expel intruding females. Distinguishing between individuals on the basis of their vocal characteristics could therefore confer direct fitness benefits on discriminating lionesses.FootnotesThis text was harvested from a scanned image of the original document using optical character recognition (OCR) software. As such, it may contain errors. Please contact the Royal Society if you find an error you would like to see corrected. Mathematical notations produced through Infty OCR. 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