Recognition of familiarity on the basis of howls: a playback experiment in a captive group of wolves
Playback experiments were conducted with a pack of captive Iberian wolves. We used a habituation–discrimination paradigm to test wolves’ ability to discriminate howls based on: (1) artificial manipulation of acoustic parameters of howls and (2) the identity of howling individuals. Manipulations in f...
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ftcsic:oai:digital.csic.es:10261/117244 2024-02-11T10:02:46+01:00 Recognition of familiarity on the basis of howls: a playback experiment in a captive group of wolves Palacios, Vicente Font, Enrique Márquez, Rafael Carazo, P. 2015 http://hdl.handle.net/10261/117244 https://doi.org/10.1163/1568539X-00003244 en eng Brill Academic Publishers #PLACEHOLDER_PARENT_METADATA_VALUE# TATANKA CGL2011-25062 CGL2010-09700 ACOURA CGL2008-04814 http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/1568539X-00003244 sí Behaviour 152: 593-614 (2015) 1568-539X http://hdl.handle.net/10261/117244 doi:10.1163/1568539X-00003244 none Playback Acoustic structure Individual discrimination Howls Canis lupus artículo http://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_6501 2015 ftcsic https://doi.org/10.1163/1568539X-00003244 2024-01-16T10:08:17Z Playback experiments were conducted with a pack of captive Iberian wolves. We used a habituation–discrimination paradigm to test wolves’ ability to discriminate howls based on: (1) artificial manipulation of acoustic parameters of howls and (2) the identity of howling individuals. Manipulations in fundamental frequency and frequency modulation within the natural range of intra-individual howl variation did not elicit dishabituation, while manipulation of modulation pattern did produce dishabituation. With respect to identity, across trials wolves habituated to unfamiliar howls by a familiar wolf (i.e., no direct contact, but previous exposure to howls by this wolf), but not to unfamiliar howls from unfamiliar wolves (i.e., no direct contact and no previous exposure to howls by these wolves). Modulation pattern seems to be an important bioacoustic feature for individual recognition. Overall, our results provide the first experimental evidence that wolves can discriminate individuals based on the acoustic structure of their howls. Sound analysis and playback test training and equipment was funded by the Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación (Spain), projects TATANKA CGL2011-25062, CGL2010-09700 and ACOURA CGL2008-04814 (PI R. Márquez). This is scientific paper no. 4 from the Iberian Wolf Research Team (IWRT). Peer Reviewed Article in Journal/Newspaper Canis lupus Digital.CSIC (Spanish National Research Council) Behaviour 152 5 593 614 |
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Playback experiments were conducted with a pack of captive Iberian wolves. We used a habituation–discrimination paradigm to test wolves’ ability to discriminate howls based on: (1) artificial manipulation of acoustic parameters of howls and (2) the identity of howling individuals. Manipulations in fundamental frequency and frequency modulation within the natural range of intra-individual howl variation did not elicit dishabituation, while manipulation of modulation pattern did produce dishabituation. With respect to identity, across trials wolves habituated to unfamiliar howls by a familiar wolf (i.e., no direct contact, but previous exposure to howls by this wolf), but not to unfamiliar howls from unfamiliar wolves (i.e., no direct contact and no previous exposure to howls by these wolves). Modulation pattern seems to be an important bioacoustic feature for individual recognition. Overall, our results provide the first experimental evidence that wolves can discriminate individuals based on the acoustic structure of their howls. Sound analysis and playback test training and equipment was funded by the Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación (Spain), projects TATANKA CGL2011-25062, CGL2010-09700 and ACOURA CGL2008-04814 (PI R. Márquez). This is scientific paper no. 4 from the Iberian Wolf Research Team (IWRT). Peer Reviewed |
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Palacios, Vicente Font, Enrique Márquez, Rafael Carazo, P. |
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Recognition of familiarity on the basis of howls: a playback experiment in a captive group of wolves |
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Recognition of familiarity on the basis of howls: a playback experiment in a captive group of wolves |
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Recognition of familiarity on the basis of howls: a playback experiment in a captive group of wolves |
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