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Marmoset monkeys coordinate vigilance while feeding.
Individuals in a marmoset monkey pair take turns to be vigilant while they are feeding. By modeling the monkeys as coupled oscillators, we investigated how this turn-taking pattern emerges over time. We find that marmosets have remarkable flexibility and control over this turn-taking behavior. The more out-of-sync they are initially, the more effort they put into synchronizing with each other, thus facilitating rapid coordination of vigilance. Phaniraj et al 2024
Image Credit: Rahel K. Brügger and Nikhil Phaniraj
Citation: (2024) PLoS Computational Biology Issue Image | Vol. 20(5) June 2024. PLoS Comput Biol 20(5): ev20.i05. https://doi.org/10.1371/image.pcbi.v20.i05
Published: June 3, 2024
Copyright: © 2024 . This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
Individuals in a marmoset monkey pair take turns to be vigilant while they are feeding. By modeling the monkeys as coupled oscillators, we investigated how this turn-taking pattern emerges over time. We find that marmosets have remarkable flexibility and control over this turn-taking behavior. The more out-of-sync they are initially, the more effort they put into synchronizing with each other, thus facilitating rapid coordination of vigilance. Phaniraj et al 2024
Image Credit: Rahel K. Brügger and Nikhil Phaniraj