The ontogeny of acoustic individuality in the nasal calls of captive goitred gazelles, Gazella subgutturosa

Lapshina, Ekaterina N.; Volodin, Ilya A.; Volodina, Elena V.; Frey, Roland; Efremova, Kseniya O.; Soldatova, Natalia V.

doi:10.1016/j.beproc.2012.03.011

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“…Low‐frequency vocalizations were also reported for neonate and juvenile reindeer (Espmark, ; Teichroeb et al., ), domestic pigs Sus scrofa (Illmann et al., ), eland Taurotragus oryx (Teichroeb et al., ), domestic cattle Bos taurus (Weary & Chua, ) and in earlier studies of goitred gazelle (Efremova, Volodin, Volodina, Frey, Lapshina, et al., ; Efremova, Volodin, Volodina, Frey, Soldatova, et al., ) and saiga (Volodin, Volodina, & Efremova, ; Volodin, Sibiryakova, et al., ). The important role of formants in encoding individual identity of the young was previously reported for the low‐frequency calls of both the juvenile reindeer (Espmark, ) and goitred gazelles (Lapshina et al., ; Volodin et al., ).…”

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“…All sex and age classes of goitred gazelle and saiga vocalize (goitred gazelle: Volodin, Lapshina, Volodina, Frey, & Soldatova, ; Efremova, Volodin, Volodina, Frey, Lapshina, et al., ; Efremova, Volodin, Volodina, Frey, Soldatova, et al., ; Lapshina et al., ; saiga: Frey, Volodin, & Volodina, ; Volodin, Volodina, & Efremova, ; Volodin, Sibiryakova, Kokshunova, Frey, & Volodina, ). Both goitred gazelles and saigas produce calls through the nose (nasal calls) and through the mouth (oral calls).…”

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“…As the acoustics of the oral and nasal calls differ, analyses of the effects of individuality and arousal on the acoustics should be conducted separately for the nasal and oral calls. In captive 3‐ to 6‐week‐old goitred gazelles, acoustic individuality is more strongly expressed in the oral than in the nasal contact calls (Volodin et al., ) and individuality of the nasal contact calls increases between 3–6 weeks and 6 months of age (Lapshina et al., ). In goitred gazelles, neonate vocalizations have not yet been studied to date.…”

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“…It is unclear why the calls of young goitred gazelles and saiga are very low‐frequency (Efremova, Volodin, Volodina, Frey, Lapshina, et al., ; Efremova, Volodin, Volodina, Frey, Soldatova, et al., ; Lapshina et al., ; Volodin et al., ; Volodin, Sibiryakova, et al., ) compared to the calls of many other neonate ruminants (Briefer & McElligott, 2011b; Lingle, Rendall, & Pellis, ; Lingle et al., ; Sibiryakova et al., ; Teichroeb et al., ). These ‘bass voices’ of the young clearly highlight formants, similar to the low‐frequency distress calls of 10‐ to 32‐day‐old reindeer Rangifer tarandus (Espmark, ).…”

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Individuality of distress and discomfort calls in neonates with bass voices: Wild‐living goitred gazelles (Gazella subgutturosa) and saiga antelopes (Saiga tatarica)

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Neonate ruminants produce distress calls when captured by a predator and discomfort milk begging calls when hungry. In many neonate ruminants, the distress and discomfort calls are high‐frequency vocalizations, in which the fundamental frequency is the key variable for recognition of their emotional arousal by caregivers. In contrast, in this study, we examine the low‐frequency open‐mouth distress and discomfort calls in the neonates of two species of wild‐living ungulates, which clearly highlight vocal tract resonances (formants). In the goitred gazelle (Gazella subgutturosa), the distress calls were higher in fundamental frequency (f0) and in the first and third formants than the discomfort calls. The accuracy of classifying individuals by variables of distress calls with discriminant function analysis (67%) was significantly lower than that of discomfort calls (85%). In the saiga (Saiga tatarica), only the third formant was higher in the distress calls than in the discomfort calls. The accuracy of classifying individuals by variables of distress calls (89%) did not differ significantly from that of discomfort calls (94%). Thus, the use of acoustic cues to vocal identity and to the degree of arousal differs between the two species. Calls were significantly more individualistic in the saiga, probably because this species lives in large herds and neonates use a ‘following’ antipredatory strategy, in which vocal individuality is crucial for mother–offspring communication. In contrast, goitred gazelles live in smaller groups and neonates use a ‘hiding’ antipredatory strategy. Accordingly, mothers can rely on additional environmental cues for spotting their young and this may decrease the necessity for individualization of the calls of neonates.

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“…; Lapshina et al. ). In accordance with the source–filter framework (Fant ; Titze ; Taylor & Reby ), the voice fundamental frequency, generated by ‘source’ in the larynx, is filtered subsequently by the ‘filter’ of the vocal tract, selectively accentuating certain resonance frequencies (formants) and attenuating antiresonances.…”

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Small Mammals Ignore Common Rules: A Comparison of Vocal Repertoires and the Acoustics between Pup and Adult Piebald Shrews Diplomesodon pulchellum

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Ilchenko³

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A common rule for mammals vocalizing in the human audible frequency range (20 Hz–20 kHz) suggests that calls are higher in fundamental frequency (f0) in the young than in adults, because of the smaller sound‐producing structures of the young. Exclusions are rare, for example the pups of Asian house shrews (Suncus murinus) make some call types of the same or higher pitch than adults. In this study, calls from 62 piebald shrews (Diplomesodon pulchellum), 37 1 to 10‐d‐old pups from 10 litters and 25 adults were acoustically investigated in captivity. We found eight call types, all within the human audible frequency range: short and long low‐frequency squeaks with nearly flat contour, high‐frequency squeaks with modulated contour, high‐frequency squeaks with fractured contour, short and long screeches, clicks and whimpers. Seven call types were shared by pups and adults, suggesting that this vocal repertoire commences at birth. Against the common rule, the f0 of squeaks was the same in pups and adults, and the f0 of clicks and screeches was even higher in adults than in pups. These results suggest a non‐descending ontogenetic pathway that not follows the common physical relationship, of the lower f0 for the larger vocal folds.

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Individuality in the vocalizations of infant and adult coppery titi monkeys (Plecturocebus cupreus)

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Bales

2020

American J Primatol

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As social animals, many primates use acoustic communication to maintain relationships. Vocal individuality has been documented in a diverse range of primate species and call types, many of which have presumably different functions. Auditory recognition of one's neighbors may confer a selective advantage if identifying conspecifics decreases the need to participate in costly territorial behaviors. Alternatively, vocal individuality may be nonadaptive and the result of a unique combination of genetics and environment. Pair-bonded primates, in particular, often participate in coordinated vocal duets that can be heard over long distances by neighboring conspecifics. In contrast to adult calls, infant vocalizations are shortrange and used for intragroup communication. Here, we provide two separate but complementary analyses of vocal individuality in distinct call types of coppery titi monkeys (Plecturocebus cupreus) to test whether individuality occurs in call types from animals of different age classes with presumably different functions. We analyzed 600 trill vocalizations from 30 infants and 169 pulse-chirp duet vocalizations from 30 adult titi monkeys. We predicted that duet contributions would exhibit a higher degree of individuality than infant trills, given their assumed function for long-distance, intergroup communication. We estimated 7 features from infant trills and 16 features from spectrograms of adult pulse-chirps, then used discriminant function analysis with leave-one-out cross-validation to classify individuals. We correctly classified infants with 48% accuracy and adults with 83% accuracy. To further investigate variance in call features, we used a multivariate variance components model to estimate variance partitioning in features across two levels:within-and between-individuals. Between-individual variance was the most important source of variance for all features in adults, and three of four features in infants. We show that pulse-chirps of adult titi monkey duets are individually distinct, and infant trills are less individually distinct, which may be due to the different functions of the vocalizations. K E Y W O R D S discriminant function analysis, pair bonding, vocal duetting, vocalization individuality

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The ontogeny of acoustic individuality in the nasal calls of captive goitred gazelles, Gazella subgutturosa

Cited by 26 publications

References 47 publications

Individuality of distress and discomfort calls in neonates with bass voices: Wild‐living goitred gazelles (Gazella subgutturosa) and saiga antelopes (Saiga tatarica)

Individuality of distress and discomfort calls in neonates with bass voices: Wild‐living goitred gazelles (Gazella subgutturosa) and saiga antelopes (Saiga tatarica)

Small Mammals Ignore Common Rules: A Comparison of Vocal Repertoires and the Acoustics between Pup and Adult Piebald Shrews Diplomesodon pulchellum

Individuality in the vocalizations of infant and adult coppery titi monkeys (Plecturocebus cupreus)

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