Variation in Number of Elements in the Perch-Coo Vocalization of the Collared Dove (Streptopelia Decaocto) and What it May Tell About the Sender

Ballintijn, Mechteld R.; Cate, Carel ten

doi:10.1163/156853999501603

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“…Although pigeons have difficulty with rhythm perception tasks involving artificial stimuli [ 14 ], the natural coo vocalizations of pigeons and doves, neither of which are vocal learners, are rhythmic. The collared dove produces a coo that consists of five elements of different duration: three notes separated by two silences [ 91 ]. Playback experiments in the field show that replacing the second or third note of the coo by silence caused little change in the behavioural response to the coo.…”

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Searching for the origins of musicality across species

Hoeschele¹,

Merchant²,

Kikuchi

et al. 2015

Phil. Trans. R. Soc. B

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In the introduction to this theme issue, Honing et al. suggest that the origins of musicality—the capacity that makes it possible for us to perceive, appreciate and produce music—can be pursued productively by searching for components of musicality in other species. Recent studies have highlighted that the behavioural relevance of stimuli to animals and the relation of experimental procedures to their natural behaviour can have a large impact on the type of results that can be obtained for a given species. Through reviewing laboratory findings on animal auditory perception and behaviour, as well as relevant findings on natural behaviour, we provide evidence that both traditional laboratory studies and studies relating to natural behaviour are needed to answer the problem of musicality. Traditional laboratory studies use synthetic stimuli that provide more control than more naturalistic studies, and are in many ways suitable to test the perceptual abilities of animals. However, naturalistic studies are essential to inform us as to what might constitute relevant stimuli and parameters to test with laboratory studies, or why we may or may not expect certain stimulus manipulations to be relevant. These two approaches are both vital in the comparative study of musicality.

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Section: Importance Of Natural Behaviourmentioning

confidence: 99%

Searching for the origins of musicality across species

Hoeschele¹,

Merchant²,

Kikuchi

et al. 2015

Phil. Trans. R. Soc. B

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“…For instance, the cooing of the collared dove ( Streptopelia decaocto ) consists of a series of repeated “coos,” each consisting of three vocal elements of different duration separated by brief pauses, also of unequal duration. This temporal pattern, and hence the structure of the coo as a unit, is highly stereotyped (Ballintijn and ten Cate, 1999 ), resulting in a characteristic rhythmic pattern for a series of coos. Receivers are very sensitive to the overall regularity of the coo: if the temporal structure is changed, the responses are strongly reduced (Slabbekoorn and ten Cate, 1999 ).…”

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Can Birds Perceive Rhythmic Patterns? A Review and Experiments on a Songbird and a Parrot Species

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While humans can easily entrain their behavior with the beat in music, this ability is rare among animals. Yet, comparative studies in non-human species are needed if we want to understand how and why this ability evolved. Entrainment requires two abilities: (1) recognizing the regularity in the auditory stimulus and (2) the ability to adjust the own motor output to the perceived pattern. It has been suggested that beat perception and entrainment are linked to the ability for vocal learning. The presence of some bird species showing beat induction, and also the existence of vocal learning as well as vocal non-learning bird taxa, make them relevant models for comparative research on rhythm perception and its link to vocal learning. Also, some bird vocalizations show strong regularity in rhythmic structure, suggesting that birds might perceive rhythmic structures. In this paper we review the available experimental evidence for the perception of regularity and rhythms by birds, like the ability to distinguish regular from irregular stimuli over tempo transformations and report data from new experiments. While some species show a limited ability to detect regularity, most evidence suggests that birds attend primarily to absolute and not relative timing of patterns and to local features of stimuli. We conclude that, apart from some large parrot species, there is limited evidence for beat and regularity perception among birds and that the link to vocal learning is unclear. We next report the new experiments in which zebra finches and budgerigars (both vocal learners) were first trained to distinguish a regular from an irregular pattern of beats and then tested on various tempo transformations of these stimuli. The results showed that both species reduced the discrimination after tempo transformations. This suggests that, as was found in earlier studies, they attended mainly to local temporal features of the stimuli, and not to their overall regularity. However, some individuals of both species showed an additional sensitivity to the more global pattern if some local features were left unchanged. Altogether our study indicates both between and within species variation, in which birds attend to a mixture of local and to global rhythmic features.

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“…In some species, there is also evidence of finely tuned sensitivity to specific temporal patterns. Coo production in Collared doves ( Streptopelia decaocto ), for example, is highly stereotyped in time ( Ballintijn and ten Cate, 1999 ) and conspecifics only respond if coos strictly adhere to this form ( Slabbekoorn and ten Cate, 1999 ; see also Doherty and Hoy, 1985 ; Gerhardt, 1988 ).…”

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Sex Differences in Rhythmic Preferences in the Budgerigar (Melopsittacus undulatus): A Comparative Study with Humans

Hoeschele

Bowling

2016

Front. Psychol.

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A variety of parrot species have recently gained attention as members of a small group of non-human animals that are capable of coordinating their movements in time with a rhythmic pulse. This capacity is highly developed in humans, who display unparalleled sensitivity to musical beats and appear to prefer rhythmically organized sounds in their music. Do parrots also exhibit a preference for rhythmic over arrhythmic sounds? Here, we presented humans and budgerigars (Melopsittacus undulatus) – a small parrot species that have been shown to be able to align movements with a beat – with rhythmic and arrhythmic sound patterns in an acoustic place preference paradigm. Both species were allowed to explore an environment for 5 min. We quantified how much time they spent in proximity to rhythmic vs. arrhythmic stimuli. The results show that humans spent more time with rhythmic stimuli, and also preferred rhythmic stimuli when directly asked in a post-test survey. Budgerigars did not show any such overall preferences. However, further examination of the budgerigar results showed an effect of sex, such that male budgerigars spent more time with arrthymic stimuli, and female budgerigars spent more time with rhythmic stimuli. Our results support the idea that rhythmic information is interesting to budgerigars. We suggest that future investigations into the temporal characteristics of naturalistic social behaviors in budgerigars, such as courtship vocalizations and head-bobbing displays, may help explain the sex difference we observed.

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Variation in Number of Elements in the Perch-Coo Vocalization of the Collared Dove (Streptopelia Decaocto) and What it May Tell About the Sender

Cited by 14 publications

References 31 publications

Searching for the origins of musicality across species

Searching for the origins of musicality across species

Can Birds Perceive Rhythmic Patterns? A Review and Experiments on a Songbird and a Parrot Species

Sex Differences in Rhythmic Preferences in the Budgerigar (Melopsittacus undulatus): A Comparative Study with Humans

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