Acoustic communication in terrestrial neotropical mammals: comparative description of repertoire and bioacoustics as a tool to natural population studies

• Grant number: 11/18253-7
• Support Opportunities: Regular Research Grants
• Start date: December 01, 2011
• End date: November 30, 2014
• Field of knowledge: Biological Sciences - Zoology - Animal Behavior
• Principal Investigator: Patrícia Ferreira Monticelli
• Grantee: Patrícia Ferreira Monticelli
• Host Institution: Faculdade de Filosofia, Ciências e Letras de Ribeirão Preto (FFCLRP). Universidade de São Paulo (USP). Ribeirão Preto , SP, Brazil
• Associated researchers: Aline Domingues Carneiro Gasco ; Deborah de Barros ; Elisabeth Spinelli de Oliveira ; Maria Luisa da Silva ; Selene Siqueira da Cunha Nogueira

Abstract

This project has two concerns: understanding the behavior of acoustic communication in a comparative evolutionary approach, following a previous line of research; and using this knowledge in studies and practical actions focused on natural populations of terrestrial mammals. The first of these concerns is dealt in a descriptive study of repertoires of neotropical species that make use of this communication channel, the agouti Dasyprocta, the Trynomys i. denigritus and the coati Nasua nasua. Recordings of the sounds produced by populations of these species will be obtained in conjunction with Laboratories of Ornitologia e Bioacústica (UFPA, PA) and Ecofisiologia e Comportamento (USP-RP). Meanwhile, another study will evaluate the applicability of techniques of bioacoustics in attracting, locating and monitoring free-living populations. Will use as models populations of the wild cavy and the capybara, that occur naturally on the campus of USP-RP, the moco, on the RPPN Fazenda do Tamanduá, Patos, PB, and the coati, semi-free living in the Parque Estadual do Tietê, SP. Together, these studies complement and support a technological project initiated in collaboration with the Laboratório de Etologia Aplicada (UESC, BA). Expected results include a discussion on the evolution of acoustic complexity of repertoires, based on these and other species previously described the collecting and maintaining of a digital sound library, and the development of a research protocol of using bioacoustics in field studies of mammals. Although the bioacoustics research has facilitated and cheapened research in behavior, ecology and conservation of several taxonomic groups, it is still underestimated as a tool for research and practical actions with Brazilian mammals, such as caviomorph rodents and social carnivores. This is the gap that the project intends to cover. (AU)

Scientific publications

(References retrieved automatically from Web of Science and SciELO through information on FAPESP grants and their corresponding numbers as mentioned in the publications by the authors)

GASCO, ALINE; FERRO, HUMBERTO F.; MONTICELLI, PATRICIA F.. The communicative life of a social carnivore: acoustic repertoire of the ring-tailed coati (Nasua nasua). BIOACOUSTICS-THE INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF ANIMAL SOUND AND ITS RECORDING, v. 28, n. 5, p. 459-487, SEP 3 2019. (11/18253-7)

L. M. R. CANTANO; L. C. LUCHESI; J. T. TAKATA; P. F. MONTICELLI. Repertório comportamental dos ratos-espinhos brasileiros, Trinomys setosus e Clyomys laticeps: diferentes níveis de socialidade. Brazilian Journal of Biology, v. 83, 2021-07-05. (11/18253-7)