Barking in domestic dogs: context specificity and individual identification

Yin, Sophia; McCowan, Brenda

doi:10.1016/j.anbehav.2003.07.016

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“…Swift foxes Vulpes velox and Arctic foxes Alopex lagopus , which are closely related to thered fox, use the cackle for communication with their pair mates and pups (Ovsjanikov et al, 1988; Darden and Dabelsteen, 2006). Domestic dogs use the bark and whine to interact with humans (Yin, 2002; Yin and McCowan, 2004; Volodina et al, 2006a). Therefore, the use of a certain call type for communicating with humans might depend not only on domestication, but also on the species.…”

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Kind granddaughters of angry grandmothers: The effect of domestication on vocalization in cross-bred silver foxes

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Volodin

Volodina³

et al. 2009

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The genetic basis of the effects of domestication have previously been examined in relation to morphological, physiological and behavioural traits, but not for vocalizations. According to Belyaev (1979, Journal of Heredity 70, 301-308), directional selection for tame behaviour toward humans resulted in domestication. This hypothesis has been confirmed experimentally on the farm-bred silver fox Vulpes vulpes population that has undergone 45 years of artificial selection for tameness and 35 years of selection for aggressiveness. These foxes, with their precisely known attitudes toward people, provide a means of examining vocal indicators of tameness and aggressiveness to establish the genetic basis for vocal production in canids. We examined vocalizations toward people in foxes selected for tameness and aggressiveness compared to those of three kinds of crosses: Hybrids (Tame X Aggressive), A-Backcrosses (Aggressive X Hybrid) and T-Backcrosses (Tame X Hybrid). We report the effects of selection for tameness on usage and structure of different vocalisations and suggest that vocal indicators for tameness and aggressiveness toward people are discrete phenotypic traits in silver foxes.

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Kind granddaughters of angry grandmothers: The effect of domestication on vocalization in cross-bred silver foxes

Gogoleva

Volodin

Volodina³

et al. 2009

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“…To date, there are only few studies investigating both aspects in the same individuals and behavioural contexts (bats: [44,45]; primates: [30,46]; elephants: [20]; dogs: [47]; tree shrews: [7]) and to our knowledge only three studies are available for mammalian infants (elephants: [37]; bats: [45]; cattle: [48]). To explore the role and potential commonalities of certain acoustic parameters or sets of acoustic parameters encoding prosodic and indexical cues in mammalian infant vocalisations, further studies on infants of various mammalian taxa are needed.…”

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Vocal correlates of sender-identity and arousal in the isolation calls of domestic kitten (Felis silvestris catus)

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IntroductionHuman speech does not only communicate linguistic information but also paralinguistic features, e.g. information about the identity and the arousal state of the sender. Comparable morphological and physiological constraints on vocal production in mammals suggest the existence of commonalities encoding sender-identity and the arousal state of a sender across mammals. To explore this hypothesis and to investigate whether specific acoustic parameters encode for sender-identity while others encode for arousal, we studied infants of the domestic cat (Felis silvestris catus). Kittens are an excellent model for analysing vocal correlates of sender-identity and arousal. They strongly depend on the care of their mother. Thus, the acoustical conveyance of sender-identity and arousal may be important for their survival.ResultsWe recorded calls of 18 kittens in an experimentally-induced separation paradigm, where kittens were spatially separated from their mother and siblings. In the Low arousal condition, infants were just separated without any manipulation. In the High arousal condition infants were handled by the experimenter. Multi-parametric sound analyses revealed that kitten isolation calls are individually distinct and differ between the Low and High arousal conditions. Our results suggested that source- and filter-related parameters are important for encoding sender-identity, whereas time-, source- and tonality-related parameters are important for encoding arousal.ConclusionComparable findings in other mammalian lineages provide evidence for commonalities in non-verbal cues encoding sender-identity and arousal across mammals comparable to paralinguistic cues in humans. This favours the establishment of general concepts for voice recognition and emotions in humans and animals.

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“…Yin and McCowan [25] have shown that dog barks are graded vocalizations that range from harsh, low-frequency calls to harmonically rich, higher frequency calls, and that they can be divided into subtypes (disturbance, isolation, and play) based on context, even within individual dogs. Disturbance barks are harsh, low-pitched barks with little amplitude modulation and little pitch modulation.…”

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Hemispheric Specialization in Dogs for Processing Different Acoustic Stimuli

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Considerable experimental evidence shows that functional cerebral asymmetries are widespread in animals. Activity of the right cerebral hemisphere has been associated with responses to novel stimuli and the expression of intense emotions, such as aggression, escape behaviour and fear. The left hemisphere uses learned patterns and responds to familiar stimuli. Although such lateralization has been studied mainly for visual responses, there is evidence in primates that auditory perception is lateralized and that vocal communication depends on differential processing by the hemispheres. The aim of the present work was to investigate whether dogs use different hemispheres to process different acoustic stimuli by presenting them with playbacks of a thunderstorm and their species-typical vocalizations. The results revealed that dogs usually process their species-typical vocalizations using the left hemisphere and the thunderstorm sounds using the right hemisphere. Nevertheless, conspecific vocalizations are not always processed by the left hemisphere, since the right hemisphere is used for processing vocalizations when they elicit intense emotion, including fear. These findings suggest that the specialisation of the left hemisphere for intraspecific communication is more ancient that previously thought, and so is specialisation of the right hemisphere for intense emotions.

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Barking in domestic dogs: context specificity and individual identification

Cited by 186 publications

References 45 publications

Kind granddaughters of angry grandmothers: The effect of domestication on vocalization in cross-bred silver foxes

Kind granddaughters of angry grandmothers: The effect of domestication on vocalization in cross-bred silver foxes

Vocal correlates of sender-identity and arousal in the isolation calls of domestic kitten (Felis silvestris catus)

Hemispheric Specialization in Dogs for Processing Different Acoustic Stimuli

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