ArticleScientific reports2017
Individual recognition of opposite sex vocalizations in the zebra finch.
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- Lesions to Caudomedial Nidopallium Impair Individual Vocal Recognition in the Zebra Finch.The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience · 2023Article
- Among-individual differences in auditory and physical cognitive abilities in zebra finches.Learning & behavior · 2022Article
- Long-distance vocalizations of spotted hyenas contain individual, but not group, signatures.Proceedings. Biological sciences · 2022Article
- Transcriptomics of Parental Care in the Hypothalamic-Septal Region of Female Zebra Finch Brain.International journal of molecular sciences · 2022Article
- Distinct timescales for the neuronal encoding of vocal signals in a high-order auditory area.Scientific reports · 2021Article
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- High-capacity auditory memory for vocal communication in a social songbird.Science advances · 2020Article
- Auditory learning in an operant task with social reinforcement is dependent on neuroestrogen synthesis in the male songbird auditory cortex.Hormones and behavior · 2020Article
- Inhibition within a premotor circuit controls the timing of vocal turn-taking in zebra finches.Nature communications · 2020Article
- Life-Stage Dependent Plasticity in the Auditory System of a Songbird Is Signal and Emitter-Specific.Frontiers in neuroscience · 2020Article
- Monogamy in a Moment: How do Brief Social Interactions Change Over Time in Pair-Bonded Zebra Finches (Integrative organismal biology (Oxford, England) · 2020Article
- (Under)water love-linking mate choice and cognition in fish and frogs.Current zoology · 2019Article
- Zebra finches identify individuals using vocal signatures unique to each call type.Nature communications · 2018Article
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Abstract
Individual vocal recognition plays an important role in the social lives of many vocally active species. In group-living songbirds the most common vocalizations during communal interactions are low-intensity, soft, unlearned calls. Being able to tell individuals apart solely from a short call would allow a sender to choose a specific group member to address, resulting in the possibility to form complex communication networks. However, little research has yet been carried out to discover whether soft calls contain individual identity. In this study, males and females of zebra finch pairs were tested with six vocalization types - four different soft calls, the distance call and the male song - to investigate whether they are able to distinguish individuals of the opposite sex. For both sexes, we provide the first evidence of individual vocal recognition for a zebra finch soft unlearned call. Moreover, while controlling for habituation and testing for repeatability of the findings, we quantify the effects of hitherto little studied variables such as partners' vocal exchange previous to the experiment, spectral content of playback calls and quality of the answers. We suggest that zebra finches can recognize individuals via soft vocalizations, therefore allowing complex directed communication within vocalizing flocks.
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