Guinea pig's courtship call: cues for identity and male dominance status?

Verzola-Olivio, Paula; Ferreira, Bruna Lima; Frei, Fernando; Monticelli, Patrícia Ferreira

doi:10.1016/j.anbehav.2021.01.023

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“…The author related the foot tapping (named trembling in T. yonenagae, Manaf, and Spinelli Oliveira, 2000) to reproduction. It was not the case in which we registered T. setosus trembling, but it may be the behavior that could have been modified and ritualized to form the rumba of Cavia (Monticelli and Ades, 2011;Verzola-Olivio and Monticelli, 2017;Verzola-Olivio et al, 2021). In the T. setosus, the body movement was not laterally oriented but dorso-ventrally, more like the foot-drumming of Kerodon rupestris and Galea spixii (Alencar and Monticelli, 2021, in prep.).…”

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Behavioral repertoire of the Brazilian spiny-rats, Trinomys setosus and Clyomys laticeps: different levels of sociality

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Behavior is a useful trait for comparative studies that provide the comprehension of phylogenetic relationships among species. Here, we present a description of two spiny-rats species’ behavioral repertoire, Clyomys laticeps and Trinomys setosus (Rodentia: Echimyidae). The affiliative and agonistic behavioral patterns were sampled during a three-year study of captive populations of wild animals. Observational data were collected in two phases under different arrangements of individuals in groups. We also compare the behavioral traits of T. setosus and C. laticeps with the known behavioral patterns of Trinomys yonenagae. We add categories to the previous descriptions of T. setosus and a standard ethogram for C. laticeps. Trinomys setosus showed a visual and vocal display we called foot-trembling, which was not described in this form and function for other species studied until now. We discuss the differences in their sociality levels and similarities and differences among behavior patterns and repertoires.

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Behavioral repertoire of the Brazilian spiny-rats, Trinomys setosus and Clyomys laticeps: different levels of sociality

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“…As MFCC have been developed for the study of human language, in the past, parameters related to the spectral envelope of a wave have been primarily used for studying individual identity encoding in primates (e.g., Clink et al, 2020, 2021; Coye et al, 2022; Fedurek et al, 2016; Mielke and Zuberbühler, 2013). Now, filter-related measures have become an increasingly popular metric for determining individual identity encoding in calls of other mammals, e.g., bats (Prat et al, 2016), elephants (Stoeger and Baotic, 2016), mongooses (Rubow et al, 2017), and guinea pigs (Verzola-Olivio et al, 2021). However, few studies incorporate both source- and filter-related parameters into their analyses to look at the relative importance of these for encoding identity (but see: Owren et al, 1997; Stoeger and Baotic, 2016; Vannoni and Mcelligott, 2007).…”

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Robust encoding of acoustic identity in alpaca hums - a basis for individual recognition

Wierucka,

Leu

2024

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Individual recognition is an important element of social interactions among animals. While the presence of individually distinct vocalisations (providing a basis for individual recognition) has been widely tested across species, information about which components of a call encode this information is lacking. We investigated whether female alpaca (Vicugna pacos) vocalisations, particularly their hums, encode information about individual identity and explored which parameters contribute to this encoding. We recorded vocalisations from 9 adult female alpaca and extracted both spectro-temporal features (frequencies and duration) and mel-frequency cepstral coefficients (MFCC). Random forest analyses revealed clear individual differences in both datasets, with the spectro-temporal features allowing for slightly more accurate classification than MFCC (71% and 66.5% accuracy for spectro-temporal features and MFCC, respectively). These robust acoustic identities have the potential to provide a basis for individual recognition in alpaca, which could have important flow on effects for alpaca communication, as it allows receivers to modulate their response to the caller’s identity. Alpaca, as herd-living and vocal animals, provide an excellent model system for better understanding the mechanisms, causes and consequences of recognition and inter-individual communication.

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“…Crowing vocalization is one of the most characteristic courtship behaviors exhibited by male Japanese quail (Coturnix japonica), and conclusions from field data suggest that male quail crow primarily in the absence of females [6]. This is in contrast to the courtship vocalizations of some rodents and songbirds, which are emitted in the presence of females [3,[7][8][9]. In captivity, crowing, which can reach 95 dB, consists of two to three syllables [10] and is performed by sexually mature, individually housed males that are at least 32 days old [11].…”

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Noradrenergic alpha-2A receptor activation suppresses courtship vocalization in male Japanese quail

Tobari

Masuzawa

Harada

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Guinea pig's courtship call: cues for identity and male dominance status?

Cited by 9 publications

References 73 publications

Behavioral repertoire of the Brazilian spiny-rats, Trinomys setosus and Clyomys laticeps: different levels of sociality

Behavioral repertoire of the Brazilian spiny-rats, Trinomys setosus and Clyomys laticeps: different levels of sociality

Robust encoding of acoustic identity in alpaca hums - a basis for individual recognition

Noradrenergic alpha-2A receptor activation suppresses courtship vocalization in male Japanese quail

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