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Vampire Bats that Cooperate in the Lab Maintain Their Social Networks in the Wild

Publikationstyp
Journal Article
Date Issued
2019-12-02
Sprache
English
Author(s)
Ripperger, Simon  
Carter, Gerald G.  
Duda, Niklas  
Kölpin, Alexander  orcid-logo
Cassens, Björn  
Kapitza, Rüdiger  
Josic, Darija  
Berrío-Martínez, Jineth  
Page, Rachel A.  
Mayer, Frieder  
TORE-URI
http://hdl.handle.net/11420/6468
Journal
Current biology  
Volume
29
Issue
23
Start Page
4139
End Page
4144.e4
Citation
Current Biology 23 (29): 4139-4144.e4 (2019-12-02)
Publisher DOI
10.1016/j.cub.2019.10.024
Scopus ID
2-s2.0-85075357150
Social bonds, maintained by mutual investments of time and energy, have greatly influenced the evolution of social cognition and cooperation in many species [e.g., 1–8]. However, there are two pitfalls regarding “social bonds” as an explanation for social structure and cooperation [1, 9–11]. First, studies often incorrectly assume that frequent association implies partner fidelity based on mutual social preference, but even seemingly complex nonrandom interaction networks can emerge solely from habitat or spatial structure [12–16]. Second, the false appearance of partner fidelity can result from stable options in the “partner market” [1, 9–11, 17]. For instance, individuals might preferentially groom the same partner, even if the decision depends entirely on the immediate costs and benefits rather than relationship history. Given these issues, a key challenge has been testing the extent to which social structure is driven by the intrinsic relationship history versus the extrinsic physical and social environment. If stable bonds exist, they should persist even if the individuals are moved to a dramatically different physical and social environment. We tested this prediction by tracking social relationships among common vampire bats (Desmodus rotundus) moved from the lab to the wild. We show that allogrooming and food sharing among female vampire bats induced in captivity over 22 months predicted their assortativity and association rates when we subsequently tracked them in the wild with custom-made high-resolution proximity sensors. The persistence of many relationships across different physical and social environments suggests that social structure is caused by both extrinsic constraints and intrinsic partner fidelity.
Subjects
biologging
common vampire bat
Desmodus rotundus
proximity sensing
social bonds
social network stability
social relationships
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