• Animal communication is the transfer of information from one or a group of animals (sender or senders) to one or more other animals (receiver or receivers) that affects the current or future behavior of the receivers. (wikipedia.org)
  • Animal communication is a rapidly growing area of study in disciplines including animal behavior, sociology, neurology and animal cognition. (wikipedia.org)
  • Many aspects of animal behavior, such as symbolic name use, emotional expression, learning and sexual behavior, are being understood in new ways. (wikipedia.org)
  • Understanding the complicated vocalizations of mice -- and how they relate to their social behavior -- will be crucial to advancing vocal and social communication research, including understanding how genes that affect vocal communication relate to children with developmental disorders including autism,' said Levitt, who is also WM Keck Provost Professor in Neurogenetics at the Keck School of Medicine at USC. (news-medical.net)
  • We will also use this unique gathering to define some of the key questions that need to be posed to address ultimate and proximate hypotheses about behavior, in the context of animal vocal communication systems. (nimbios.org)
  • Social behavior in farm animals: Applying fundamental theory to improve animal welfare. (awionline.org)
  • A fundamental understanding of behavior is essential to improving the welfare of billions of farm animals around the world. (awionline.org)
  • Vocalization and other behavior signals are used as tools to assess animal welfare in beef calves. (awionline.org)
  • Feliway Classic reduces or completely eliminates urinary marking, furniture scratching, excessive vocalization, and other anti-social behavior. (valleyvet.com)
  • WIKIMEDIA, U.S. FISH AND WILDLIFE SERVICE Working to understand the complexities of social behavior, scientists at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center in Seattle have mapped characteristics associated with how and why fish swim in schools to stretches of the three-spined stickleback ( Gasterosteus aculeatus ) genome. (the-scientist.com)
  • Some of the same brain regions and neurological chemicals that control human social behavior are probably involved in fish social behavior as well. (the-scientist.com)
  • FLICKR, ARRANET In the first reported study to investigate nighttime antipredator behavior among wild Asian elephants, researchers from the University of California, Davis, showed that the animals are able to distinguish playback growls of tigers, their occasional predators, from those of leopards, which pose a much greater threat. (the-scientist.com)
  • The resulting painting, "Orca Sea,"captures the highly social behavior and lifetime bonding of these apex hunters in a way that only Wyland can. (wyland.com)
  • They also differ in coloration, behavior, and vocalization. (a-z-animals.com)
  • Yet, their behavior is also very different in two important aspects - their social order and what they hunt. (a-z-animals.com)
  • The object of our study aimed to review and to correlate genes involved in ASD and those related to ultrasonic communication in animal model studies of language-based social behavior at the PubMed database. (bvsalud.org)
  • Social Behavior: Fin Whales are usually solitary animals but sometimes travel in small groups or pairs. (danawharf.com)
  • A study on monk parakeets conducted by the Max Planck Institute of Animal Behavior and Museu de Ciències Naturals de Barcelona might have the answer: individuals have a unique tone of voice , known as a voice print, similar to that in humans. (phys.org)
  • That surprised Smeele, a doctoral researcher at the Max Planck Institute of Animal Behavior who studies how parrots use their exceptional vocal abilities to socialize in large groups. (phys.org)
  • Here is a truly astonishing discovery in the annals of animal behavior: "Only in sperm whales and humans do group identities extend so far beyond kin. (kios.org)
  • Publishing in the Quarterly Review of Biology , researchers Kerrie Graham and Gordon Burghardt wrote, 'Play behavior is a paradox in humans and animals, being ubiquitous yet ambiguous. (icr.org)
  • For example, they showed that studies are finding playful behavior in more animals, even in some insects, according to some biological definitions of the word 'play. (icr.org)
  • Animal play is not a single trait, but a behavior resulting from a host of traits such as certain neural connections and instinctive behavioral habit data. (icr.org)
  • If there were clear survival advantages to animal play, then evolutionists would connect that survival factor with an evolutionary past, even without establishing a heritable basis for such a complicated behavior. (icr.org)
  • 1 Observations from different species showed that adult social interactions were affected by juvenile play activity, but none of these linked any playful behavior to increased survivability. (icr.org)
  • Male mice produce ultrasonic vocalizations in the presence of females and both sexes sing during friendly social encounters. (news-medical.net)
  • Mice have been genetically well characterized and used extensively for research on autism as well as in other areas, but until now there have been limitations to studying their ultrasonic vocalizations. (news-medical.net)
  • The team of investigators developed and demonstrated a signal-processing tool that provides rapid, automated, unsupervised and time/date stamped analysis of the ultrasonic vocalizations of mice. (news-medical.net)
  • Because there is such a wide variation in the types of ultrasonic vocalizations made by mice, in order to analyze the information researchers have had to develop ways of categorizing and combining sounds they perceived to be similar using manual or semi-automated techniques. (news-medical.net)
  • Some rodents produce ultrasonic vocalizations (USVs) for social communication using an aerodynamic whistle, a unique vocal production mechanism not found in other animals. (figshare.com)
  • Rats emit ultrasonic vocalizations in a variety of appetitive and aversive contexts. (uleth.ca)
  • Abstract: Ultrasonic vocalizations (USVs) are one of the evolutionarily oldest forms of animal communication. (preprints.org)
  • Rats emit high-frequency 50-kHz ultrasonic vocalizations (USV) in appetitive situations like social interactions. (nih.gov)
  • Animal Behaviour 87 , 23-29. (upenn.edu)
  • Animal Behaviour 84 , 21-27. (upenn.edu)
  • Animal Behaviour 80 , 3-8. (upenn.edu)
  • Applied Animal Behaviour Science 249, 105606. (awionline.org)
  • This remarkable crow innovation echoes mammal-like behaviour, challenging our understanding of intelligence in the animal kingdom. (birdingtrail.org)
  • Animal Behaviour, Vol. 76, No. 5 (November 2008): 1601-1608. (marquette.edu)
  • Scientists specialising in animal behaviour and welfare devised an experiment to investigate the relationship between personality and the rate of grunting in pigs. (vetscite.org)
  • Understanding how the vocalisations of pigs' relate to their personality will also help animal behaviourists and welfare experts have a clearer picture of the impact those personalities have on communication, and thus its role in the evolution of social behaviour and group dynamics in social species. (vetscite.org)
  • Animals from the cecal ligation and puncture + m-amphetamine (.5 and/or 1.0 mg/kg) group showed an increase in locomotion, exploratory and risk-like behaviour when compared with the Sham + Saline group and with its respective Sham groups. (bvsalud.org)
  • Animal Behaviour, 80, 133-138. (lu.se)
  • 2022. Vocalization and other behaviors indicating pain in beef calves during the ear tagging procedure. (awionline.org)
  • 2022. Vocalization and other behaviors as indicators of emotional valence: The case of cow-calf separation and reunion in beef cattle. (awionline.org)
  • The researchers suggested that understanding how and why fish school could help them pinpoint the genetic characteristics associated with similarly complex social behaviors in other animals, and even humans. (the-scientist.com)
  • When reacting to leopard-growl playbacks, on the other hand, the animals lingered, producing aggressive vocalizations and showing alert and investigative behaviors. (the-scientist.com)
  • We plan each enclosure to provide ample room for the animals to roam, explore, and express natural behaviors . (lionstigersandbears.org)
  • Lions have space to roam and socialize as they would in the wild, promoting natural social behaviors. (lionstigersandbears.org)
  • Orcas are not only powerful, beautiful animals," Wyland says, "t hey pass along behaviors and vocalizations that vary from group to group over generations. (wyland.com)
  • Further, Patel suspects that we should study animals who are known to be vocal mimics and see if they too exhibit behaviors that resemble dancing when exposed to rhythms. (sentientdevelopments.com)
  • Autism spectrum disorders (ASD) are characterized by social interaction deficiencies in the verbal language domain and may incur in repetitive, stereotyped, and restricted gestural behaviors. (bvsalud.org)
  • In the past decade, the communicative, social, and emotional aspects of language have followed a qualitative distribution in 27 observable behaviors. (bvsalud.org)
  • After mentioning that some animals play silently and others noisily, as well as citing some brain activity that accompanies these behaviors, the authors wrote, 'Equivalents of laughter across a variety of species is indicative of play's origins and its evolutionary significance. (icr.org)
  • The review section that discussed possible developmental effects of play resorted to a half-dozen speculations, each marked by the word 'may'-as in, 'that animals play cooperatively may represent a suite of cooperative behaviors relevant to the evolution of sociality. (icr.org)
  • Blue and Yellow Macaws were studied to understand how they reacted to interactions with a familiar animal care taker. (wikipedia.org)
  • Here we show that ravens react differently to playbacks of dominance interactions that either confirm or violate the current rank hierarchy of members in their own social group and of ravens in a neighbouring group. (nature.com)
  • Because of the time and date stamp attached to the vocalizations, the investigators expect that this tool will be useful in correlating vocalizations with video recorded behavioral interactions, allowing additional information to be mined from mouse models relevant to the social deficits experienced by persons with autism. (news-medical.net)
  • The aim of the current study was to investigate the side (left or right) and sagittal preference (front or rear) of adult Barbary macaques ( Macaca sylvanus ) during different types of social interactions. (mdpi.com)
  • These results suggest that a general function of elephant rumbles is to promote spatial cohesion among separated group members, but they may also mediate a variety of other close-distance social interactions. (marquette.edu)
  • Like human beings, many animals produce sounds for communication and social interactions. (edu.sa)
  • Interestingly, in contrast to human vocal learning, most animals can produce species-specific patterns of vocalization without learning them from their parents. (researchgate.net)
  • Vocalization plays a significant role in social communication across species such as speech by humans and song by birds. (news-medical.net)
  • When assessing the intellect within the animal kingdom, one species stands out conspicuously for its exceptional abilities: the crow. (birdingtrail.org)
  • [5] In humans, one of the most social species, social connection is essential to nearly every aspect of health and well-being. (wikipedia.org)
  • The ability to utilize contact calls to facilitate reunions with social partners has been documented in a number of species showing a fission/fusion social organization. (marquette.edu)
  • The grunts made by pigs vary depending on the pig's personality and can convey important information about the welfare of this highly social species, new research has found. (vetscite.org)
  • Contrary to many ape species, adult female gibbons are dominant in their family social structures. (seaworld.org)
  • Both are characterized by similar acoustic parameters and serve a common purpose of long distance communication in natural surroundings in two large brained social species. (frontiersin.org)
  • Could female preferences even work to create new species, given that social choices (and not just classic physical separation of populations) may push groups in different directions over time? (kios.org)
  • We aimed to describe and compare vocalization and other behavioral signs of cow-calf pairs in emotionally negative and positive situations, and the potential influence of genetic. (awionline.org)
  • In order to study the communication architecture in an aversive social situation, we used a behavioral model in which one animal, the observer, is witnessing as his cagemate, the demonstrator, is experiencing a series of mild electrical foot-shocks (aversive stimuli). (preprints.org)
  • The delays and interruptions in the acquisition of phases that are necessary for the maturation of communication may generate consequences that affect a child's cognitive, social, behavioral, and emotional functions and impact his/her progression into adulthood (Liu, Zahrt, & Simms, 2018). (bvsalud.org)
  • We found that the vocalizations of a stranger individual induced a stronger behavioral response than those produced by individuals from either the same or a neighboring group," says one of the study authors, University of Saint-Etienne bioacoustician Nicolas Mathevon. (sciencealert.com)
  • More recently, Dr. Chohan has examined the early postnatal development of neuronal connections involved in the vocalization of infant rats and in social attachment in general, and has applied stem-cell transplantation, in vivo electrophysiology, data-analysis methods, and behavioral-neuroscience tools to query diverse but interrelated hypotheses of cortico-limbic basal ganglia dysfunction in animal models of mental illness. (columbiapsychiatry.org)
  • Counseling and support including cognitive-behavioral therapy and social skills training should also be considered. (medscape.com)
  • All birds produce vocalizations as a form of tcommunication with other individuals. (researchgate.net)
  • However, evidence that birds have an understanding of social dynamics similar to that of mammals is still scarce. (nature.com)
  • It will bring together researchers specializing on key animal taxa (such as cetaceans, bats, song birds, etc), biologists investigating animal communication in general, cognitive psychologists and computational linguists, and mathematicians and computer scientists with specialist knowledge of key algorithms and analytical principles. (nimbios.org)
  • Crows can mimic sounds made by other birds and animals. (earthlife.net)
  • Animal illnesses are reported as single cases of illness or in groups, such as flocks of birds. (cdc.gov)
  • Chickens are social animals, and chicks emit a distress call when they are isolated from the group (Fig. 1b). (researchgate.net)
  • Gestures: Most animals understand communication through a visual display of distinctive body parts or bodily movements. (wikipedia.org)
  • Facial expression: Another important signal of emotion in animal communication are facial gestures. (wikipedia.org)
  • Gaze-following: Social animals use gaze-following as a form of communication through monitoring head and eye orientation in other mammals. (wikipedia.org)
  • Research into the underlying neurobiological basis and heritable nature of vocalizations in humans and animals has identified promising genes and neural networks involved in vocal production, auditory processing and social communication. (news-medical.net)
  • The central importance of information in studies of animal communication. (upenn.edu)
  • Recent developments in the mathematical analysis of complex animal communication have generated opportunities to understand the functional aspects of animal vocalizations, their role in social organization, and ultimately to explore the origins and evolution of human language. (nimbios.org)
  • Vocalisation is the main form of communication in frogs. (thebhs.org)
  • Road noise has increased over the past few decades to the point where it can mask acoustic signals with impacts for animal communication. (thebhs.org)
  • Although the reason why these calls are emitted is yet unknown, two prominent theories exist, the affective state theory and the social communication theory. (uleth.ca)
  • This thesis will provide evidence to support the theory that these calls are emitted as a form of social communication. (uleth.ca)
  • Four experiments will be presented, each testing a facet of the social communication theory. (uleth.ca)
  • Overall, it is concluded that, although some vocalizations may be an indicator of the rat's affective state, they are also used as a form of social communication. (uleth.ca)
  • However, very few studies directly link animal oral communication and gene expression in cortical areas of language. (bvsalud.org)
  • Although many animals have varied and elaborated communication systems, human communicability allows an array of almost infinite construction of oral sound phrases and meanings, not only to share needs and desires but also to establish an even more complex personal relationship (Werker & Hensch, 2015). (bvsalud.org)
  • Vocalizations: Their vocalizations include a wide range of sounds, from high-frequency clicks used for echolocation to low-frequency songs and calls used for communication. (danawharf.com)
  • Although it's the third largest land mammal, can run a spritely 30 km/h (19 mph) over short distances, and is far more dangerous to humans than a grizzly bear, we know relatively little about its social communication. (sciencealert.com)
  • Understanding social relations of others may be key in those behaviours. (nature.com)
  • This may have had far reaching consequences in shaping the evolution of social behaviours, the researchers believe. (vetscite.org)
  • L-tryptophan is required to create serotonin in the brain which is responsible for mood, appetite, sleep, memory, learning and social behaviours. (vetafarm.com.au)
  • The intention was that each group would generate a draft section of a manuscript that would provide a comprehensive review of the analysis of animal acoustic sequences. (nimbios.org)
  • 2014. Acoustic sequences in non-human animals: A tutorial review and prospectus. (nimbios.org)
  • To date, almost no evidence exists for animals having unique signatures that underlie all calls made by an individual. (phys.org)
  • A great deal of variation is known to underlie the vocalizations of animals. (lu.se)
  • 14 states voluntarily reported 242 harmful algal bloom (HAB) events, 63 human cases of illness, and 367 animal cases of illness to OHHABS for 2019. (cdc.gov)
  • Moreover, the crows exhibit outstanding memory skills in animals . (birdingtrail.org)
  • While the usage of tools by other animals may be instinctual or learned by observation, crows demonstrate a deeper understanding of cause and effect, setting them apart in the spectrum of animal intelligence. (birdingtrail.org)
  • When we review these aspects, it becomes evident that crows are not just intelligent but also possess a highly developed social structure. (birdingtrail.org)
  • Using a digital audio and GPS recording collar system, we documented the production of rumbles and subsequent movements of five adult female African elephants at Disney's Animal Kingdom, Bay Lake, Florida, U.S.A. This recording system allowed us to identify the producer of each rumble and to document the effect of rumbles on the movements of herd members relative to the caller. (marquette.edu)
  • Tics are abnormal movements or vocalizations that are diverse in presentation. (medscape.com)
  • It also considers information that users enter about patients' movements and vocalizations. (medscape.com)
  • As social animals, California sea lions spend much time communicating with each other. (si.edu)
  • By the mid-1970s, the locus of the naval cold war had shifted to the Arctic, where the latest Soviet submarines were secreting themselves under the ice cap, an environment off-limits to animals including dolphins and sea lions used in the Navy Marine Mammal Program (NMMP). (smithsonianmag.com)
  • Lions Tigers & Bears is a no contact, no kill, no breed animal rescue/sanctuary and educational facility based in east San Diego County. (lionstigersandbears.org)
  • At Lions Tigers & Bears, our mission is deeply rooted in rescuing and providing a nurturing home for animals that have endured the hardships of abuse, abandonment, or exploitation. (lionstigersandbears.org)
  • Beyond our primary mission of providing a safe haven for animals, Lions Tigers & Bears actively engages with the public to foster a deeper understanding of our mission and its broader significance. (lionstigersandbears.org)
  • California sea lions communicate with numerous vocalizations, notably with barks and mother-pup contact calls . (marinemammalscience.org)
  • The majority (90%) of animal illnesses involved wildlife, of which 56% were marine mammals such as sea lions and dolphins. (cdc.gov)
  • A core feature of social intelligence is the understanding of third-party relations, which has been experimentally demonstrated in primates. (nature.com)
  • Social housing for dairy calves has a range of benefits for social development, yet there is limited understanding of how social bonds form early in life. (awionline.org)
  • This might seem simple, but it is a clear indicator of their understanding of social structures and the importance of maintaining order within the group. (birdingtrail.org)
  • Two theories are functional, suggesting that singing and dancing either serves to attract mates or foster social cohesion and collaboration. (sentientdevelopments.com)
  • They focused on the 'wheeze honk' - the most common hippo vocalization, which can be heard over long distances and is thought to be part of the animals' social cohesion communications. (sciencealert.com)
  • These signals have different social structures and functions. (thebhs.org)
  • The evolution of language from social cognition. (upenn.edu)
  • Animal Cognition 13 , 861-870. (upenn.edu)
  • One of the often-underestimated aspects of crow intelligence is their complex social dynamics, which can be compared with the complexity of social structures found in primate groups. (birdingtrail.org)
  • According to Allison Knoll, PhD, of CHLA, first co-author on the study, researchers in the field have been aware of and working to interpret the meaning of mouse vocalization by categorizing the sounds using a syllable classification system - with discrete sounds defined as syllables. (news-medical.net)
  • A practical guide to the study of social relationships. (upenn.edu)
  • The study indicated that pigs with more proactive personality types produced grunts at a higher rate than the more reactive animals. (vetscite.org)
  • Armed with shotgun microphones, Smeele and colleagues recorded the calls of hundreds of individuals, collecting over 5000 vocalizations in total, making it the largest study of individually-marked wild parrots to date. (phys.org)
  • The proposed method is applied to the motivating vocalization study to examine the effect of Methyl-CpG binding protein 2 gene on the vocalizations of mice during courtship. (edu.sa)
  • The vocalizations of mice have the characteristics of songs, consisting of syllables of different types determined by the frequency modulations and structure variations. (edu.sa)
  • Regarding animal models in ASD, many studies focus on gene expression, cortical neuronal migration and cell maturation, and neural network deficits. (bvsalud.org)
  • Their loud roars can be heard by humans even three miles away through the dense jungle, and they have been called the loudest animals in the New World (Dunn 2008). (newworldencyclopedia.org)
  • Whether other social animals also have this capacity, and whether they can use this capacity flexibly to, for example, also assess the relations of neighbouring conspecifics, remains unknown. (nature.com)
  • Individual distinctiveness is likely to attract social support from conspecifics, and knowledge of these individuality cues could assist farmers in detecting individual cattle for welfare or production purposes. (bigthink.com)
  • Nicole Davies and her colleagues tracked 21 koalas ( Phascolarctos cinereus ) living in southwest Queensland, looking for differences among animals that lived at different distances from the area's center. (the-scientist.com)
  • on the other hand, they form and maintain affiliate social relations aside from reproduction and engage in primate-like social strategies like support during conflicts 32 , and reconciliation and consolation after conflicts 33 . (nature.com)
  • Female chacma baboons form strong, equitable, and enduring social bonds. (upenn.edu)
  • They form tight, social colonies , calling to each other during emergencies and at flock roosting times at night. (earthlife.net)
  • Although cats are not as outwardly expressive in their emotions as humans or other animals, they still form strong bonds with their humans and grieve when they are gone. (liquidimageco.com)
  • Although cats are not as social as dogs, they can still form strong bonds with their owners. (liquidimageco.com)
  • Color change: Color change can be separated into changes that occur during growth and development, and those triggered by mood, social context, or abiotic factors such as temperature. (wikipedia.org)
  • The study's authors offered a mixture of interesting observations from recent studies of animal play along with confused, unscientific 'explanations' within an evolutionary context. (icr.org)
  • 2 However, animal and human play make sense in the context of creation, where a powerful and benevolent God wove both aesthetic and survival traits together into each of His creatures. (icr.org)
  • She tells University of Sydney News , "We hope that through gaining knowledge of these vocalizations, farmers will be able to tune into the emotional state of their cattle, improving animal welfare. (bigthink.com)
  • Vocalization may communicate the emotional state in vocal animals. (awionline.org)
  • without it, social animals experience distress and face severe developmental consequences. (wikipedia.org)
  • This database, created in 2000, is updated every three months with newly published scientific articles, books, and other publications related to improving or safeguarding the welfare of animals used in research. (awionline.org)
  • The findings also suggest personality needs to be kept in mind when using vocalisation as a measure of the animals' welfare status. (vetscite.org)
  • 207 (56%) animal deaths were reported. (cdc.gov)
  • These experiments provide evidence that the calls are linked to social stimuli over non-social reward, and are emitted in divergent patterns depending on strain, regardless of depressive state. (uleth.ca)
  • To characterize the impact of social environments and genotypes on vocalizations, it is important to identify the patterns of syllables based on the shapes of frequency contours. (edu.sa)
  • For both human and animal illnesses, gastrointestinal and generalized signs and symptoms were most commonly reported. (cdc.gov)
  • Using existing hypothesis testing methods to determine the shape classes would require testing various null and alternative hypotheses for each curve, and is impractical for vocalization studies where the interest is on a large number of frequency contours. (edu.sa)
  • Social bonds in female baboons: The interaction between personality, kinship, and rank. (upenn.edu)
  • LTB also creates opportunities for social interaction and enrichment activities that are tailored to the specific needs of each animal resident. (lionstigersandbears.org)
  • Other social animals also use vocal cues to be recognized. (phys.org)
  • They communicate their territorial boundaries with elaborate and prolonged vocalizations that can be heard from great distances throughout the forest. (seaworld.org)
  • We understand that the well-being of our animal residents depends on the environments they call home. (lionstigersandbears.org)
  • Joining field researchers as they observe sperm whales in the Caribbean, scarlet macaws in Amazonian Peru, and chimpanzees in Uganda's Budongo Forest, Safina explains how we know that many animals make use of that social flow, instead of only instinct or gene encodings. (kios.org)
  • With a variety of crafts and activities, kids can learn about dolphins and other ocean animals while having fun. (craftgossip.com)
  • dolphins are a fascinating and beloved animal that makes for a great theme for kids' crafts. (craftgossip.com)
  • In the vast universe of the animal kingdom, we often marvel at the intelligence of dolphins, praise the problem-solving abilities of primates, or admire how an octopus can use tools. (birdingtrail.org)
  • Strong and consistent social bonds enhance the longevity of female baboons. (upenn.edu)
  • The benefits of social capital: Close social bonds among female baboons enhance offspring survival. (upenn.edu)
  • PROCEDURES: State and territorial public health departments and USDA Wildlife Services provided data on animals submitted for rabies testing in 2021. (cdc.gov)
  • Members are our strongest champions of animal conservation and wildlife research. (si.edu)
  • Data were analyzed temporally and geographically to assess trends in domestic animal and wildlife rabies cases. (cdc.gov)
  • This cooperation is supported by their ability to share knowledge within the group, a rare trait in the animal kingdom. (birdingtrail.org)
  • Our findings provide the first empirical evidence that spontaneously produced elephant rumble vocalizations function in part to mediate the spatial relationships of group members. (marquette.edu)
  • However, cecal ligation and puncture animals that received m-amphetamine (1 mg/kg) increased even more, these inflammatory parameters compared with the Sham + Sal and the cecal ligation and puncture + saline group. (bvsalud.org)
  • This fact, combined with a high fraction of very high-pitched 50-kHz calls (over 75-kHz), suggests the presence of the phenomenon of social buffering. (preprints.org)
  • Firstly, although hippos look pretty relaxed and zoned out in their watering holes, their quick responses to the calls mean the animals are still paying close attention to their surroundings. (sciencealert.com)
  • Vocalizations were also recorded when these social animals were individually isolated from their herd. (bigthink.com)
  • Field observations and playback experiments suggest that African elephants use low-frequency rumble vocalizations to reunite with their herd members following periods of fission. (marquette.edu)
  • ADRIENNE WOOD: Many mammals have evolved this vocalization that is kind of an early version of human laughter that is this rapid panting. (nhpr.org)
  • Each of these elements - family ties, cooperation, shared knowledge, language-like call systems, and conflict resolution - is a testament to their cognitive capabilities, making them one of the underrated geniuses in the animal kingdom. (birdingtrail.org)
  • Social housing has been shown to improve those aspects, whereas physical environmental enrichment has. (awionline.org)
  • What makes any vocalization in an animal an equivalent to human laughter? (icr.org)
  • Currently, the main social media account of COSN (i.e., the WeChat Official Account) has more than 23,000 subscribers, and more than 1,000 researchers/students actively participate in the discussions on Open Science. (mpi.nl)
  • Animals that communicate using sound are found throughout the animal kingdom. (researchgate.net)
  • They communicate with each other using body language, scent marking, and vocalization, including howling. (skullsunlimited.com)
  • They use a variety of vocalizations, including whistles and clicks, to communicate with one another. (craftgossip.com)
  • The ability to understand and to communicate is essential for the adapted social and cultural development of children. (bvsalud.org)
  • In exploring the long-held 'belief that play is significant in the development of young animals,' the authors cited some experiments that showed no developmental difference between young that did not play and those that did. (icr.org)
  • In his influential theory on the hierarchy of needs , Abraham Maslow proposed that our physiological needs are the most basic and necessary to our survival, and must be satisfied before we can move on to satisfying more complex social needs like love and belonging. (wikipedia.org)
  • This workshop that will take a first step towards building a coherent community of researchers of animal vocal sequences, with a well-defined framework for collaborative research and consistent hypothesis-driven paradigms. (nimbios.org)
  • For her research, she recorded 333 vocalizations of 13 Holstein-Friesian heifers. (bigthink.com)
  • Even after renewed research efforts, animal play continues to defy evolutionary origins. (icr.org)
  • We are approaching this goal using a variety of techniques, from animal models to research in adults with ASD. (columbiapsychiatry.org)
  • Smeele wondered if parrots, possessing the right anatomy coupled with a need to navigate complex social lives, might have evolved voice prints, too. (phys.org)
  • Animals think, feel and learn from each other in complex ways that finally are coming to be recognized. (kios.org)
  • Complex phonic tics are vocalizations of words and/or complex phrases. (medscape.com)
  • At LTB, our mission is to provide a safe and loving home for animals rescued from various situations and shape their habitats in a way that allows them to live with dignity, comfort, and as naturally as possible. (lionstigersandbears.org)
  • Weight: Fin whales are massive animals, with adults weighing around 50 to 80 tons (100,000 to 160,000 pounds or 45,000 to 72,000 kilograms). (danawharf.com)
  • Becoming Wild is Safina's seventh book for adults, and it extends this new awareness of animal intelligence and emotion to questions of animal culture. (kios.org)
  • Further studies by his team have revealed that other vocalizing animals have similar capacities, including 14 different types of parrots and even elephants. (sentientdevelopments.com)
  • This review collects the currently available data from animal and human studies and discusses the potential mechanisms of action of resveratrol in prevention and therapy for psychiatric disorders. (bvsalud.org)
  • Although human data are preferred, MRLs often must be based on animal studies because relevant human studies are lacking. (cdc.gov)
  • The exceptions are primates, possibly because their social life requires them to deal not only with one but several long-term relationships at a time 3 . (nature.com)
  • In discussions regarding tool usage in the animal kingdom, it's common to envision primates creating tools from sticks or stones. (birdingtrail.org)
  • We are one of the few exotic animal sanctuaries in the US and provide rescue and rehabilitative care for big cats, bears, and other exotic animals. (lionstigersandbears.org)
  • Most likely, it's because cats are incredibly social creatures and they just want to be near you. (liquidimageco.com)
  • This creates a strong bond between cats and their primary caregiver, which can also be seen in other animals. (liquidimageco.com)
  • FLICKR, MIKAKU Planning is widely considered a uniquely human trait, but other animals have also shown an ability to plan for future needs. (the-scientist.com)