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Fin de partie : les larmes des éléphants et la rupture du pacte ludique chez Pline, Histoire naturelle, VIII, 20-21

open access: yesKentron, 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]

open access: yesRoyal 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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ORCA-SPOT: An Automatic Killer Whale Sound Detection Toolkit Using Deep Learning [PDF]

open access: yes, 2019
Large bioacoustic archives of wild animals are an important source to identify reappearing communication patterns, which can then be related to recurring behavioral patterns to advance the current understanding of intra-specific communication of non ...
Barth, Volker   +7 more
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Syntactic modulation of rhythm in Australian pied butcherbird song

open access: yesRoyal 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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Social Robotic Donuts [PDF]

open access: yes, 2019
In order to broaden the design space for social robot design, we created two air-actuated donutshaped social robots: a small uniform silicone version and a more organic latex version.
Bewley, Harvey, Boer, Laurens
core   +1 more source

Signaler-Receiver “Exchangeability” Promotes Information Exchange in Animal Communication [PDF]

open access: yesAnimal Behavior and Cognition
Signals 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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Fundamental Moral Attitudes to Animals and Their Role in Judgment: An Empirical Model to Describe Fundamental Moral Attitudes to Animals and Their Role in Judgment on the Culling of Healthy Animals During an Animal Disease Epidemic [PDF]

open access: yes, 2009
In this paper, we present and defend the theoretical framework of an empirical model to describe people’s fundamental moral attitudes (FMAs) to animals, the stratification of FMAs in society and the role of FMAs in judgment on the culling of healthy ...
Brom, F.W.A., Cohen, N.E., Stassen, E.N.
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Beyond bigrams: call sequencing in the common marmoset (Callithrix jacchus) vocal system

open access: yesRoyal Society Open Science
Over 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

open access: yesFrontiers 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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Animals-assisted therapy: A brief review [PDF]

open access: yes, 2018
In rehabilitative setting, the presence of animals can be considered as an important stimulus for verbal and social communication, and for mood regulation.
Cerroni F.   +22 more
core   +1 more source

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