The importance of visual markings in night birds. The case of the Eagle Owl, Bubo bubo
Rivista Italiana di Ornitologia - Research in Ornithology, 2012 This work brings together the results of a series of researches on the importance of the visual communication for nocturnal birds, carried out using the Eagle Owl as a model species.
Vincenzo Penteriani +2 more
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Higher social tolerance is associated with more complex facial behavior in macaques
eLife, 2023 The social complexity hypothesis for communicative complexity posits that animal societies with more complex social systems require more complex communication systems. We tested the social complexity hypothesis on three macaque species that vary in their
Alan V Rincon +6 more
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Kentron, 2022 Resorting to violence on animals, particularly in socially organized forms in public settings for the sole purpose of entertaining a human audience, has been considered a real cultural taboo in modern Western society for some decades.
Marco Vespa
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Shared songs are of lower performance in the dark-eyed junco [PDF]
Royal Society Open Science, 2016 Social learning enables the adjustment of behaviour to complex social and ecological tasks, and underlies cultural traditions. Understanding when animals use social learning versus other forms of behavioural development can help explain the dynamics of ...
Gonçalo C. Cardoso +1 more
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Syntactic modulation of rhythm in Australian pied butcherbird song
Royal Society Open Science, 2022 The acoustic structure of birdsong is spectrally and temporally complex. Temporal complexity is often investigated in a syntactic framework focusing on the statistical features of symbolic song sequences.
Jeffrey Xing +3 more
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Signaler-Receiver “Exchangeability” Promotes Information Exchange in Animal Communication [PDF]
Animal Behavior and CognitionSignals that inform prospective receivers of potential contingencies associated with the signaler or its environment may be innate, or may rely upon repeated association between signal production and a context relevant to the receiver, or theory of mind,
Gabriel Francescoli, James F. Hare
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Beyond bigrams: call sequencing in the common marmoset (Callithrix jacchus) vocal system
Royal Society Open ScienceOver the last two decades, an emerging body of research has demonstrated that non-human animals exhibit the ability to combine context-specific calls into larger sequences.
Alexandra B. Bosshard +5 more
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Music and Language in Social Interaction: Synchrony, Antiphony, and Functional Origins
Frontiers in Psychology, 2019 Music and language are universal human abilities with many apparent similarities relating to their acoustics, structure, and frequent use in social situations.
Nathan Oesch, Nathan Oesch
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Influencing Elimination Location in the Domestic Cat: A Semiochemical Approach
Animals, 2022 In the domestic cat, elimination at an inappropriate location is considered by cat owners and non-cat owners as an undesirable behaviour. The aim of the study was to assess the effect of a semiochemical formulation, reconstituted volatile fraction of cat
Naïma Kasbaoui +6 more
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Darwin’s finches in human-altered environments sing common song types and are more aggressive
Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 2023 Human-altered landscapes may act as an environmental filter benefiting species or individuals with specific sets of capacities or behaviors. Yet the effects of human activity on culturally transmitted traits in animals are still poorly understood ...
Diane Colombelli-Négrel +4 more
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