Spontaneous color preferences in rhesus monkeys: What is the advantage of primate trichromacy?

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Alternative codes found

RIV/60460709:41210/20:81779 RIV/00216208:11120/20:43919755 RIV/00216208:11310/20:10410367

Result on the web

<a href="https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0376635719303912?via%3Dihub" target="_blank" >https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0376635719303912?via%3Dihub</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.beproc.2020.104084" target="_blank" >10.1016/j.beproc.2020.104084</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Spontaneous color preferences in rhesus monkeys: What is the advantage of primate trichromacy?

Original language description

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

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_imp - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

10614 - Behavioral sciences biology

Project

<a href="/en/project/LO1611" target="_blank" >LO1611: Sustainability for The National Institute of Mental Health</a><br>

Continuities

P - Projekt vyzkumu a vyvoje financovany z verejnych zdroju (s odkazem do CEP)

Publication year

2020

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Behavioural Processes

ISSN

0376-6357

e-ISSN

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Volume of the periodical

174

Issue of the periodical within the volume

"Article number 104084"

Country of publishing house

NL - THE KINGDOM OF THE NETHERLANDS

Number of pages

7

Pages from-to

1-7

UT code for WoS article

000527946200011

EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-85080031365