Parturition Signaling by Visual Cues in Female Marmosets (Callithrix jacchus)
New World monkeys have polymorphic color vision, in which all males and some females are dichromats, while most females are trichromats. There is little consensus about which selective pressures fashioned primate color vision, although detection of food, mates and predators has been hypothesized....
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| Resumo: | New World monkeys have polymorphic color vision, in which all males and some females
are dichromats, while most females are trichromats. There is little consensus about which
selective pressures fashioned primate color vision, although detection of food, mates and
predators has been hypothesized. Behavioral evidence shows that males from different
species of Neotropical primates seem to perceive the timing of female conception and gestation,
although, no signals fulfilling this function have been identified. Therefore, we used
visual models to test the hypothesis that female marmosets show chromatic and/or achromatic
cues that may indicate the time of parturition for male and female conspecifics. By recording
the reflectance spectra of female marmosets’ (Callithrix jacchus) sexual skin, and
running chromatic and achromatic discrimination models, we found that both variables fluctuate
during the weeks that precede and succeed parturition, forming “U” and inverted “U”
patterns for chromatic and achromatic contrast, respectively. We suggest that variation in
skin chroma and luminance might be used by female helpers and dominant females to identify
the timing of birth, while achromatic variations may be used as clues by potential fathers
to identify pregnancy stage in females and prepare for paternal burdens as well as to detect
oestrus in the early post-partum period. |
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