Other creatures regulate each other's body budgets
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A note for Lesson no. 5, "Your Brain Secretly Works With Other Brains," in Seven and a Half Lessons About the Brain by Lisa Feldman Barrett.
Some context from page 87–88 is:
...other creatures regulate each other’s body budgets. Ants, bees, and other insects do this using chemicals such as pheromones. Mammals like rats and mice use chemicals to communicate by smell, and they add vocal sounds and touch. Primates like monkeys and chimpanzees also use vision to regulate each other’s nervous systems.
To read more about the social basis of body budgeting (i.e., social allostasis), see the note "We regulate each other's body budgets."
Many other animal species perform social allostasis by influencing what their fellows (called "conspecifics) eat and when they eat, where is safe from predators and how to escape from predators, who to mate with, when to sleep, and so on. The ability of animals to influence each other's hormonal rhythms is called "social synchronization."[1]
- Ants, bees, and other insects do this using chemicals, such as pheromones (e.g., [1][2][3][4][5][6][7]). Some evidence suggests vision might also be important.[8][9]
- Mammals like rats and mice use chemicals to communicate by smell and add vocal sounds and touch. They use vision as well, although it may not be the dominant sense.[10][11][12][13][14][15][16][17][18][19][20][21]
- Primates like monkeys and chimpanzees also use vision to regulate each other’s nervous systems.[22][23][24][25][26][27][28]
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Eban-Rothschild, Ada, and Guy Bloch. 2012. "Social Influences on Circadian Rhythms and Sleep in Insects." In Advances in Genetics, volume 77, edited by Marla B. Sokolowski and Stephen F. Goodwin, 1–32. San Diego, CA: Academic Press.
- ↑ Bloch, Guy. 2010. "The Social Clock of the Honeybee." Journal of Biological Rhythms 25 (5): 307–317.
- ↑ Fuchikawa, Taro, Ada Eban-Rothschild, Moshe Nagari, Yair Shemesh, and Guy Bloch. 2016. "Potent Social Synchronization Can Override Photic Entrainment of Circadian Rhythms." Nature Communications 7 (1): 1–10.
- ↑ Eban-Rothschild, Ada, Yair Shemesh, and Guy Bloch. 2012. "The Colony Environment, But Not Direct Contact With Conspecifics, Influences the Development of Circadian Rhythms in Honey Bees." Journal of Biological Rhythms 27 (3): 217–225.
- ↑ Leonhardt, Sara Diana, Florian Menzel, Volker Nehring, and Thomas Schmitt. 2016. "Ecology and Evolution of Communication in Social Insects." Cell 164 (6): 1277–1287.
- ↑ Steiger, Sandra, and Johannes Stökl. 2017. "Pheromones Involved in Insect Parental Care and Family Life." Current Opinion in Insect Science 24: 89–95.
- ↑ Leadbeater, Ellouise, and Lars Chittka. 2007. "Social Learning in Insects—from Miniature Brains To Consensus Building." Current Biology 17 (16): R703–R713.
- ↑ Ping, Yong, Lingzhan Shao, Minzhe Li, Luna Yang, and Jiaxing Zhang. 2020. "Contribution of Social Influences Through Superposition of Visual and Olfactory Inputs To Circadian Re-entrainment." iScience 23 (2): 100856.
- ↑ Graham, Paul, Andrew Philippides, and Bart Baddeley. 2010. "Animal Cognition: Multi-modal Interactions in Ant Learning." Current Biology 20 (15): R639–R640.
- ↑ Blumberg, Mark S., and Greta Sokoloff. 2001. "Do Infant Rats Cry?" Psychological Review 108 (1): 83–95.
- ↑ Takahashi, Nobuaki, Makio Kashino, and Naoyuki Hironaka. 2010. "Structure of Rat Ultrasonic Vocalizations and Its Relevance To Behavior." PloS One 5 (11): e14115.
- ↑ Champagne, Frances A. 2008. "Epigenetic Mechanisms and the Transgenerational Effects of Maternal Care." Frontiers in Neuroendocrinology 29 (3): 386–397.
- ↑ Schweinfurth, Manon K. 2020. "The Social Life of Norway Rats (Rattus Norvegicus)." eLife 9: e54020.
- ↑ Galef, Bennett G., and Mertice M. Clark. 1971. "Social Factors in the Poison Avoidance and Feeding Behavior of Wild and Domesticated Rat Pups." Journal of Comparative and Physiological Psychology 75 (3): 341–357.
- ↑ Galef, Bennett G., and Mertice M. Clark. 1971. "Parent-Offspring Interactions Determine Time and Place of First Ingestion of Solid Food By Wild Rat Pups." Psychonomic Science 25 (1): 15–16.
- ↑ Galef, Bennett G., and Linda Heiber. 1976. "Role of Residual Olfactory Cues in the Determination of Feeding Site Selection and Exploration Patterns of Domestic Rats." Journal of Comparative and Physiological Psychology 90 (8): 727–739.
- ↑ Galef, Bennett G., Deborah J. Kennett, and Stephen W. Wigmore. 1984. "Transfer of Information Concerning Distant Foods in Rats: A Robust Phenomenon." Animal Learning & Behavior 12 (3): 292–296.
- ↑ Galef Jr, Bennett G., and Leslie L. Buckley. 1996. "Use of Foraging Trails By Norway Rats." Animal Behaviour 51 (4): 765–771.
- ↑ Galef, Bennett G. 2013. "Animal Communication: Sniffing Is About More Than Just Smell." Current Biology 23 (7): R272–R273.
- ↑ Wrenn, Craige C. 2004. "Social Transmission of Food Preference in Mice." Current Protocols in Neuroscience 28 (1): 8.5G.1–8.5G.7.
- ↑ Laland, K. N., and H. C. Plotkin. 1993. "Social Transmission of Food Preferences Among Norway Rats By Marking of Food Sites and By Gustatory Contact." Animal Learning & Behavior 21 (1): 35–41.
- ↑ Kawai, Masao. 1965. "Newly-Acquired Pre-Cultural Behavior of the Natural Troop of Japanese Monkeys on Koshima Islet." Primates 6 (1): 1–30.
- ↑ Reader, Simon M., Yfke Hager, and Kevin N. Laland. 2011. "The Evolution of Primate General and Cultural Intelligence." Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 366 (1567): 1017–1027.
- ↑ A. Whiten, J. Goodall, W. C. McGrew, T. Nishida, V. Reynolds, Y. Sugiyama, C. E. G. Tutin, R. W. Wrangham and C. Boesch. 2001. "Charting Cultural Variation in Chimpanzees." Behaviour 138 (11/12): 1481–1516.
- ↑ Whiten, Andrew. 1998 "Imitation of the Sequential Structure of Actions By Chimpanzees (Pan Troglodytes)." Journal of Comparative Psychology 112 (3): 270–281.
- ↑ Myowa‐Yamakoshi, Masako, Masaki Tomonaga, Masayuki Tanaka, and Tetsuro Matsuzawa. 2004. "Imitation in Neonatal Chimpanzees (Pan Troglodytes)." Developmental Science 7 (4): 437–442.
- ↑ Whiten, Andrew. 2017. "Culture Extends the Scope of Evolutionary Biology in the Great Apes." Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 114 (30): 7790–7797.
- ↑ Krützen, Michael, Erik P. Willems, and Carel P. van Schaik. 2011. "Culture and Geographic Variation in Orangutan Behavior." Current Biology 21 (21): 1808–1812.