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Elevated recognition accuracy for low-pitched male voices in men with higher threat potential: Further evidence for the retaliation-cost model in humans
2021, Evolution and Human BehaviorCitation Excerpt :Signals of aggressive-intent abound in animals. Examples include skin-darkening of cuttlefish and octopuses (Adamo & Hanlon, 1996; Scheel, Godfrey-Smith, & Lawrence, 2016), the postural and weaponry displays by hermit crabs and goldfinches (Laidre, 2009; Popp, 1987), song-type matching by song sparrows (Vehrencamp, 2001), soft calls of swamp sparrows (Akçay, Anderson, Nowicki, Beecher, & Searcy, 2015), low-pitched howling in wolves (Harrington, 1987), musth in African elephants (Poole, 1989), and the “rounded-mouth threat face” of macaques (Kuester, Paul, & Preuschoft, 1998). The wide distribution of aggressive-intent signals suggests that they are honest on average (otherwise, animals would not respond to them and the signals would disappear), and one possible mechanism that has maintained their honesty is retaliation cost (Searcy & Nowicki, 2005).
Using acoustic indices to estimate wolf pack size
2019, Ecological IndicatorsCitation Excerpt :Additionally, a SNR measurement of the files containing a known number of wolves could be made in order to applying a correction to the estimation of howling wolves related to these SNR values. Finally, not all pack members participate in choruses (Harrington, 1987) and they could be temporarily and/or spatially separated from each other (Holt, 1998), so it is important to emphasize that the chorus size estimated using acoustic indices is not an exact estimate of the wolf pack size. In order to maximize the likelihood of recording choruses containing all pack members, summer is the best period for obtaining field recordings because of the high and frequent howling activity (Gazzola et al., 2002; Harrington and Mech, 1979) in restricted areas called “rendezvous sites” during pup rearing (Harrington and Mech, 1978).
Wolf howls encode both sender- and context-specific information
2018, Animal BehaviourDisentangling canid howls across multiple species and subspecies: Structure in a complex communication channel
2016, Behavioural ProcessesCitation Excerpt :Most are apex predators, and although some hunt in packs and others alone, all species are strongly social, living in groups ranging in size from a handful of close family members, e.g. coyotes Canis latrans (Bekoff, 1977), to large groups of 20 or more animals, e.g. Ethiopian wolves Canis simensis (Sillero-Zubiri and Gottelli, 1994). For humans, one of the most familiar canid behaviours is the howl, a long-range communication channel (i.e., a mode through which communication can occur) thought to play a role both in territorial advertising and in group cohesion (Theberge and Falls 1967; Harrington and Mech, 1979; Harrington, 1987). Howling is most familiar in grey wolves Canis lupus (Harrington et al., 2003), but all species in the genus produce howl-like vocalisations in addition to other, shorter range communication, such as barks, yips, and growls (Cohen and Fox, 1976).
Behavioural and physiological responses of domestic dogs (Canis familiaris) to agonistic growls from conspecifics
2014, Applied Animal Behaviour ScienceCitation Excerpt :As Morton (1977) states, “Harsh, low-frequency sounds indicate that the sender is likely to attack if the receiver comes closer to the sender or remains at the same distance.” This relationship between acoustic structure of a vocalisation and an aggressive motivational context has been supported in numerous studies (e.g. Harrington, 1987; Gouzoules and Gouzoules, 2000; Compton et al., 2001; Feighny et al., 2006). However, an assumption behind this rule, that the receiver will avoid or retreat from the sender in response to the vocalisation's acoustic structure (i.e. wide bandwidth and low frequency), has largely been unexplored.
Are higher-frequency sounds brighter in color and smaller in size? Auditory-visual correspondences in 10-month-old infants
2012, Infant Behavior and DevelopmentCitation Excerpt :Thus, the results of the present and previous research suggest that pitch-size correspondences may be learned after birth. This observation may be surprising considering that some animal species (e.g., frogs, wolves) use vocalization frequency to make their apparent body size larger (e.g., Bee, Perrill, & Owen, 2000; Harrington, 1987). They produce lower-frequency vocal sounds in the presence rather than in the absence of competitive conspecifics.