2024
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.2316818121
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Puppy whines mediate maternal behavior in domestic dogs

Mathilde Massenet,
Romane Philippe,
Katarzyna Pisanski
et al.

Abstract: In mammals, offspring vocalizations typically encode information about identity and body condition, allowing parents to limit alloparenting and adjust care. But how do these vocalizations mediate parental behavior in species faced with the problem of rearing not one, but multiple offspring, such as domestic dogs? Comprehensive acoustic analyses of 4,400 whines recorded from 220 Beagle puppies in 40 litters revealed litter and individual (within litter) differences in call acoustic structure. By then playing re… Show more

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