ArticleBMC research notes2018
Spontaneous rhythms in a harbor seal pup calls.
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- A primer on rhythm quantification for fish sounds: a Mediterranean case study.Royal Society open science · 2021Article
- Rhythm in speech and animal vocalizations: a cross-species perspective.Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences · 2019Review
- Ontogeny of vocal rhythms in harbor seal pups: an exploratory study.Current zoology · 2019Article
- Rhythm and synchrony in animal movement and communication.Current zoology · 2019Article
- Correction to: Spontaneous rhythms in a harbor seal pup calls.BMC research notes · 2018Article
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Abstract
objectivesTiming and rhythm (i.e. temporal structure) are crucial, though historically neglected, dimensions of animal communication. When investigating these in non-human animals, it is often difficult to balance experimental control and ecological validity. Here I present the first step of an attempt to balance the two, focusing on the timing of vocal rhythms in a harbor seal pup (Phoca vitulina). Collection of this data had a clear aim: To find spontaneous vocal rhythms in this individual in order to design individually-adapted and ecologically-relevant stimuli for a later playback experiment. DATA DESCRIPTION: The calls of one seal pup were recorded. The audio recordings were annotated using Praat, a free software to analyze vocalizations in humans and other animals. The annotated onsets and offsets of vocalizations were then imported in a Python script. The script extracted three types of timing information: the duration of calls, the intervals between calls' onsets, and the intervals between calls' maximum-intensity peaks. Based on the annotated data, available to download, I provide simple descriptive statistics for these temporal measures, and compare their distributions.
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