ArticlePhilosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences2021
Vocal plasticity in harbour seal pups.
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- Individual variation in animal communication: from species averages to unique voices.Biological reviews of the Cambridge Philosophical Society · 2025Review
- A harbor seal (Phoca vitulina) shows extensive respiratory control in sound production.BMC ecology and evolution · 2025Article
- Vocal usage learning and vocal comprehension learning in harbor seals.BMC neuroscience · 2024Article
- Measuring rhythms of vocal interactions: a proof of principle in harbour seal pups.Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 2023Article
- Spontaneous vocal coordination of vocalizations to water noise in rooks (Ecology and evolution · 2023Article
- Multimodal imitative learning and synchrony in cetaceans: A model for speech and singing evolution.Frontiers in psychology · 2023Review
- Spontaneous rhythm discrimination in a mammalian vocal learner.Biology letters · 2022Article
- Vocal tract allometry in a mammalian vocal learner.The Journal of experimental biology · 2022Article
- Vocal plasticity in harbour seal pups.Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 2021Article
- Voice modulation: from origin and mechanism to social impact.Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 2021Article
- Can harbor seals (PeerJ · 2021Article
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Abstract
Vocal plasticity can occur in response to environmental and biological factors, including conspecifics' vocalizations and noise. Pinnipeds are one of the few mammalian groups capable of vocal learning, and are therefore relevant to understanding the evolution of vocal plasticity in humans and other animals. Here, we investigate the vocal plasticity of harbour seals (
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