Emotions play a crucial role in an animal's life because they facilitate responses to external
or internal events of significance for the organism. In social species, one of the main …

In animal communication natural selection favors callers who vocalize to affect the behavior
of listeners and listeners who acquire information from vocalizations, using this information …

Literature Cited to accompany Animal Communication, 2e Page 1 Principles of Animal
Communication, Second Edition Jack W. Bradbury and Sandra L. Vehrencamp Chapter 14 …

Recent work on human vocal production demonstrates that certain irregular phenomena
seen in human pathological voices and baby crying result from nonlinearities in the vocal …

The field of animal vocal communication has benefited greatly from improved understanding
of vocal production mechanisms and specifically from the generalization of the source–filter …

The alarm calls of vervet monkeys (Chlorocebus pygerythrus) constitute the classic textbook
example of semantic communication in nonhuman animals, as vervet monkeys give …

The discriminant function analysis (DFA) is a multivariate method that is frequently used in
bioacoustic research to examine, for instance, whether calls from different species, contexts …

In this study we sought to determine whether dog barks could be divided into subtypes
based on context. We recorded barking from 10 adult dogs, Canis familiaris, of six breeds in …

We present results of a 10-year study of free-ranging gray-footed chacma baboons (Papio
ursinus griseipes) in the Okavango Delta of Botswana. The majority of deaths among adult …

The focus of acoustic communication studies differs between birds and primates due to
differences between the avian and primate social structures. Contact calls exist in almost all …