Veranstaltung:
Wir freuen uns, unseren nächsten Vortrag der Neuroscience Seminar Series anzukündigen. Präsentationen von Experten auf ihrem Gebiet finden sowohl hier am MPINB als auch über Zoom statt. Ausschließlich in englischer Sprache.
"Linking Communication and Cooperation: Lessons from the naked mole-rat"
Alison Barker, Research Group Leader- Social Systems and Circuits, Max Planck Institute for Brain Research
Abstract
Highly organized social groups require well-structured and dynamic communication systems. Naked mole-rats form some of the most rigidly structured social groups in the Animal Kingdom, exhibiting eusociality, a type of highly cooperative social living characterized by a reproductive division of labor with a single breeding female, queen. Recent work from our group identified a critical role for vocal communication in the organization and maintenance of naked mole-rat social groups. Using machine learning techniques we demonstrated that one vocalization type, the soft chirp, encodes information about individual identity and colony membership. Colony specific vocal dialects can be learned early in life- pups that were cross-fostered acquired the dialect of their adoptive colonies. We also demonstrate that vocal dialects are influenced in part by the presence of the queen. Here, I summarize these findings and highlight our current work investigating how social and vocal complexity evolved in parallel in closely related species throughout the Bathyergidae family of African mole-rats.
In-Person
MPINB Lecture Hall, Ludwig-Erhard-Allee 2, 53175 Bonn
Zoom
https://mpinb-mpg-de.zoom.us/j/63767300567
Meeting-ID: 637 6730 0567