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Animal Signals, Music and Emotional Well-Being

open access: yesAnimals, 2021
Playing music or natural sounds to animals in human care is thought to have beneficial effects. An analysis of published papers on the use of human-based music with animals demonstrates a variety of different results even within the same species.
Charles T. Snowdon
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ANIMAL COMMUNICATION AND EVOLUTION [PDF]

open access: yesEvolution, 1997
The study of Animal Communication is a diverse endeavor encompassing disciplines from physics and chemistry to psychology and linguistics, traversing neurobiology, behavior and evolution along the way. No one treatment of this field could be definitive.
openaire   +2 more sources

Processing and visualising association data from animal-borne proximity loggers [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
The authors thank the BBSRC (Grants BB/G023913/1 and/2 to CR) and the University of Bath (studentship to EMB) for funding.Background With increasing interest in animal social networks, field biologists have started exploring the use of advanced tracking ...
Bettaney, Elaine   +3 more
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Animal Suffering and Public Relations [PDF]

open access: yes, 2023
Animal Suffering and Public Relations conducts an ethical assessment of public relations, mainly persuasive communication and lobbying, as deployed by some of the main businesses involved in the animal-industrial complex—the industries participating in ...

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How Subtle Protocol Choices Can Affect Biological Conclusions: Great Tits' Response to Allopatric Mobbing Calls

open access: yesAnimal Behavior and Cognition, 2021
In the last ten years, numerous replicated studies showed divergent results from the original papers, leading to the recognition that science may be facing a replication crisis.
Ambre Salis   +2 more
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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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Structure and function of the vocal repertoire of the Rifleman ( Acanthisitta chloris ), a member of the earliest diverging passerine suborder, Acanthisitti

open access: yesJournal of Field Ornithology, 2023
Birds communicate primarily using vocal signals. These signals undergo strong selection for effective transmission, which is often critical for survival.
Yen Yi Loo   +5 more
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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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Acoustic communication in plant–animal interactions

open access: yes, 2016
Acoustic communication is widespread and well-studied in animals but has been neglected in other organisms such as plants. However, there is growing evidence for acoustic communication in plant–animal interactions.
Schöner, M.G.   +3 more
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