Ontogeny of vocal rhythms in harbor seal pups: an exploratory study
Puppyhood is a very active social and vocal period in a harbor seal’s life Phoca vitulina. An important feature of vocalizations is their temporal and rhythmic structure, and understanding vocal timing and rhythms in harbor seals is critical to a cross-species hypothesis in evolutionary neuroscience...
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ftpubmed:oai:pubmedcentral.nih.gov:6347067 2023-05-15T16:33:00+02:00 Ontogeny of vocal rhythms in harbor seal pups: an exploratory study Ravignani, Andrea Kello, Christopher T de Reus, Koen Kotz, Sonja A Dalla Bella, Simone Méndez-Aróstegui, Margarita Rapado-Tamarit, Beatriz Rubio-Garcia, Ana de Boer, Bart 2019-02 http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6347067/ http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30697246 https://doi.org/10.1093/cz/zoy055 en eng Oxford University Press http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6347067/ http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30697246 http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/cz/zoy055 © The Author(s) 2018. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of Editorial Office, Current Zoology. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/), which permits non-commercial re-use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. For commercial re-use, please contact journals.permissions@oup.com CC-BY-NC Special Column: Rhythm and Synchrony in Animal Movement and Communication Text 2019 ftpubmed https://doi.org/10.1093/cz/zoy055 2019-02-03T01:37:32Z Puppyhood is a very active social and vocal period in a harbor seal’s life Phoca vitulina. An important feature of vocalizations is their temporal and rhythmic structure, and understanding vocal timing and rhythms in harbor seals is critical to a cross-species hypothesis in evolutionary neuroscience that links vocal learning, rhythm perception, and synchronization. This study utilized analytical techniques that may best capture rhythmic structure in pup vocalizations with the goal of examining whether (1) harbor seal pups show rhythmic structure in their calls and (2) rhythms evolve over time. Calls of 3 wild-born seal pups were recorded daily over the course of 1–3 weeks; 3 temporal features were analyzed using 3 complementary techniques. We identified temporal and rhythmic structure in pup calls across different time windows. The calls of harbor seal pups exhibit some degree of temporal and rhythmic organization, which evolves over puppyhood and resembles that of other species’ interactive communication. We suggest next steps for investigating call structure in harbor seal pups and propose comparative hypotheses to test in other pinniped species. Text harbor seal Phoca vitulina PubMed Central (PMC) Current Zoology 65 1 107 120 |
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Puppyhood is a very active social and vocal period in a harbor seal’s life Phoca vitulina. An important feature of vocalizations is their temporal and rhythmic structure, and understanding vocal timing and rhythms in harbor seals is critical to a cross-species hypothesis in evolutionary neuroscience that links vocal learning, rhythm perception, and synchronization. This study utilized analytical techniques that may best capture rhythmic structure in pup vocalizations with the goal of examining whether (1) harbor seal pups show rhythmic structure in their calls and (2) rhythms evolve over time. Calls of 3 wild-born seal pups were recorded daily over the course of 1–3 weeks; 3 temporal features were analyzed using 3 complementary techniques. We identified temporal and rhythmic structure in pup calls across different time windows. The calls of harbor seal pups exhibit some degree of temporal and rhythmic organization, which evolves over puppyhood and resembles that of other species’ interactive communication. We suggest next steps for investigating call structure in harbor seal pups and propose comparative hypotheses to test in other pinniped species. |
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Ravignani, Andrea Kello, Christopher T de Reus, Koen Kotz, Sonja A Dalla Bella, Simone Méndez-Aróstegui, Margarita Rapado-Tamarit, Beatriz Rubio-Garcia, Ana de Boer, Bart |
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Ontogeny of vocal rhythms in harbor seal pups: an exploratory study |
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Ontogeny of vocal rhythms in harbor seal pups: an exploratory study |
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© The Author(s) 2018. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of Editorial Office, Current Zoology. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/), which permits non-commercial re-use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. For commercial re-use, please contact journals.permissions@oup.com |
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