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Experimental peripheral administration of oxytocin elevates a suite of cooperative behaviours in a wild social mammal

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Madden, Joah R., Clutton-Brock, Tim H.·2011·Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

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The evolution and expression of different forms of cooperative behaviour (e.g. feeding, guarding, sentinel duties, etc.) are usually studied independently, with few studies considering them as a single syndrome. However, studies investigating individuals' investment across a suite of different behaviours reveal that they are correlated, suggesting a single mechanism determining the evolution and expression of cooperative behaviours. A hormonal mechanism could achieve this, and one possibility is oxytocin (OT), which affects several prosocial or alloparental behaviours independently. We show, using a double-blind experiment, that peripheral administration of OT to social, free-living meerkats Suricata suricatta elevates a suite of cooperative behaviours. Treated individuals increase their contributions to communal, cooperative activities (digging, guarding, pup-feeding and associating with pups) and decrease initiation of aggressive interactions, compared with a saline control. This suggests that different forms of cooperative behaviour form a single syndrome with a common causal basis. If our peripherally administered OT acts in the same way as the naturally released hormone, then a general tendency to prosociality may be modulated by this hormonal system. Therefore, it may be difficult for an individual to decouple expression of cooperative behaviours that provide the practitioner with benefits from those that provide the recipient with benefits. It may also explain why social species typically exhibit a suite of cooperative behaviours, without having to invoke independent evolution of each.

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Authors: Madden, J. R., & Clutton-Brock, T. H.
Affiliations: University of Cambridge (GB)
ORCID: Madden, Joah R.
Clutton-Brock, Tim H.
Venue: Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences
Publisher: The Royal Society
Published: 2010-10-06
Volume: 278
Issue: 1709
Pages: 1189-1194
ISSN: 0080-4649 (ISSN-L)
0962-8452
1471-2954
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2010.1675
PMC: PMC3049071
OpenAlex: W2149573805
Cited by: 144
References: 40
Citations by year: 2026: 2 · 2025: 7 · 2024: 6 · 2023: 5 · 2022: 7 · 2021: 10 · 2020: 8 · 2019: 16 · 2018: 12 · 2017: 11 · 2016: 8 · 2015: 15 · 2014: 13 · 2013: 9 · 2012: 9
FWCI: 10.36
Type: journal article
Language: en
Open access: green
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Licence: royalsociety.org/journals/ethics-policies/data-sharing-mining/ (tdm)
Locations: Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences (publishedVersion)
Europe PMC (PubMed Central) (publishedVersion)
PubMed Central (publishedVersion)
PubMed (publishedVersion)
Funders: University of Pretoria
Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council
Topics: Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Endocrine and Autonomic Systems › Neuroendocrine regulation and behavior
Life Sciences › Agricultural and Biological Sciences › Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics › Animal Behavior and Reproduction
Life Sciences › Agricultural and Biological Sciences › Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics › Primate Behavior and Ecology
Keywords: oxytocin, cooperative behavior, prosocial behavior, MeerKAT, Suricata suricatta, communal feeding, guarding, aggression, social mammals, hormone administration, evolution of cooperation
MeSH terms: Animals, Behavior, Animal, Cooperative Behavior, Biological Evolution, Herpestidae, Oxytocin

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