Banca de QUALIFICAÇÃO: FRANCISCO EDVALDO DE OLIVEIRA TERCEIRO

Uma banca de QUALIFICAÇÃO de DOUTORADO foi cadastrada pelo programa.
DISCENTE : FRANCISCO EDVALDO DE OLIVEIRA TERCEIRO
DATA : 10/08/2018
HORA: 14:00
LOCAL: Sala de Reuniões do Centro de Biociências
TÍTULO:

Looking beyond the dyad: social tolerance and social learning evidences on Callithrix jacchus

PALAVRAS-CHAVES:

Common marmoset; Social behavior; Aggressiveness

PÁGINAS: 65
GRANDE ÁREA: Ciências Humanas
ÁREA: Psicologia
RESUMO:

Explaining human exceptionality is present for a long time in scientific and non-scientific literature. Such pursuit fed scientists’ curiosity about the basis of social behavior. One of the ways in which social behavior manifests itself is through a strategy known as cooperative breeding. This strategy is marked by individuals delaying its dispersion, reproductive activity and to help caring others’ infants. Cooperative breeder hypothesis has gained room as the main explanation to human sociality level, well above its closest evolutionary relatives. The hypothesis states, among other things, that social tolerance, active food sharing, social learning and conspecific eye-gazing without conflict have higher levels due to a necessity to share parental care burden with the social group. Increase in these social interactions would lead, after evolutionary process, a higher level in social cognition. Despite increasing support to this hypothesis, its support comes, mostly from experiments in captivity, particularly using Callithrix jacchus, once this is also a cooperative breeder. We assessed this hypothesis through, post conflict interactions, social tolerance and mobbing, using, until this moment, a set of experiments and observations in natural environment. The experiments are made with two Callithrix jacchus groups in a Caatinga area of Assú’s National Forest, Natal-RN. Qualitative analysis do not showed differences in aggressions’ distribution patterns in each group. However, aggressiveness levels are higher in the group with two breeding females. From social tolerance data, one might argue that there are differences between groups and between sexes and categories in each group for some of the measured behaviors. Despite being early in the analyses, these results are in line with the literature, pointing that this new method to analyze social tolerance might be replicable in next studies in this field.

MEMBROS DA BANCA:
Presidente - 1149552 - ARRILTON ARAUJO DE SOUZA
Externo ao Programa - 350638 - MARIA DE FATIMA ARRUDA DE MIRANDA
Interno - 2696495 - RENATA GONCALVES FERREIRA