An investigation of the auditory perception of western lowland gorillas in an enrichment study

Authors: Jake S. Brooker

Publication/Journal: Zoo Biology

Keywords: anxiety, auditory perception, gorillas, pitch, tempo, welfare

2016

Faking it: deliberately altered voice pitch and vocal attractiveness

Authors: Paul J. Fraccaro, Jillian J. M. O'Connor, Daniel E. Re, Benedict C. Jones, Lisa M. DeBruine, David R. Feinberg

Publication/Journal: Animal Behaviour

Keywords: functional honesty, honest signal, vocal attractiveness, vocal dominance, voice pitch

2013

Great tits in urban noise benefit from high frequencies in song detection and discrimination

Authors: N.U. Pohl, E. Leadbeater, H. Slabbekoorn, G.M. Klump, U. Langemann

Publication/Journal: Animal Behaviour

Keywords: acoustic communication, anthropogenic noise, birdsong, environmental noise, frequency shift, great tit, parus major, pitch, song detection, song discrimination

2012

Frogs Call at a Higher Pitch in Traffic Noise

Authors: Kirsten M. Parris, Meah Velik-Lord, Joanne M. A. North

Publication/Journal: Ecology and Society

Keywords: acoustic interference, ambient noise, amphibian decline, animal behavior, bioacoustics, crinia signifera, litoria ewingii, road ecology, signal design, traffic noise, urban ecology, vocal communication

2009

Pitch perception in chinchillas (Chinchilla laniger): Stimulus generalization using rippled noise

Authors: William P. Shofner, William A. Yost, William M. Whitmer

Publication/Journal: Journal of Comparative Psychology

Keywords: chinchilla, pitch perception, rippled noise, stimulus generalization

2007

Potential animal-centred indicators of dairy goat welfare

Authors: M. Mazurek, M. Marie, D. Desor

Publication/Journal: Animal Welfare

Keywords: animal welfare, behaviour, dominance, fear, goat, indicators

2007

Frequency-range discriminations and absolute pitch in black-capped chickadees (Poecile atricapillus), mountain chickadees (Poecile gambeli), and zebra finches (Taeniopygia guttata)

Authors: T.T. Lee, I. Charrier, L.L. Bloomfield, R.G. Weisman., C.B. Sturdy

Publication/Journal: Journal of Comparative Psychology

Keywords: animal communication, animal vocalization, animals, auditory perception, female, finches, generalization, male, operant conditioning, pitch discrimination, seasons, songbirds, sound spectrography, species specificity, stimulus, transfer (psychology)

2006

Acoustic systems are adapted to breeding ecologies: individual recognition in nesting penguins

Authors: Pierre Jouventin, Thierry Aubin

Publication/Journal: Animal Behaviour

Keywords: acoustics, adélie penguin, breeding, gentoo penguin, parent-chick recognition, penguins, playback experiments, pygoscelis adeliae, pygoscelis papua

2002

Relative pitch perception in Japanese monkeys (Macaca fuscata)

Authors: A. Izumi

Publication/Journal: Journal of Comparative Psychology

Keywords: animal behavior, animal behaviour, animals, cues, female, macaca/psychology, male, operant conditioning, pitch discrimination, pitch perception

2001