Effect of pitch range on dogs’ response to conspecific vs. heterospecific distress cries

Abstract Distress cries are emitted by many mammal species to elicit caregiving attention. Across taxa, these calls tend to share similar acoustic structures, but not necessarily frequency range, raising the question of their interspecific communicative potential. As domestic dogs are highly respons...

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Autores principales:	Holly Root-Gutteridge, Victoria F. Ratcliffe, Justine Neumann, Lucia Timarchi, Chloe Yeung, Anna T. Korzeniowska, Nicolas Mathevon, David Reby
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Publicado:	Nature Portfolio 2021
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spelling	oai:doaj.org-article:c5a0ac8a6a364175987a31154eaead472021-12-02T17:13:17ZEffect of pitch range on dogs’ response to conspecific vs. heterospecific distress cries10.1038/s41598-021-98967-w2045-2322https://doaj.org/article/c5a0ac8a6a364175987a31154eaead472021-10-01T00:00:00Zhttps://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-021-98967-whttps://doaj.org/toc/2045-2322Abstract Distress cries are emitted by many mammal species to elicit caregiving attention. Across taxa, these calls tend to share similar acoustic structures, but not necessarily frequency range, raising the question of their interspecific communicative potential. As domestic dogs are highly responsive to human emotional cues and experience stress when hearing human cries, we explore whether their responses to distress cries from human infants and puppies depend upon sharing conspecific frequency range or species-specific call characteristics. We recorded adult dogs’ responses to distress cries from puppies and human babies, emitted from a loudspeaker in a basket. The frequency of the cries was presented in both their natural range and also shifted to match the other species. Crucially, regardless of species origin, calls falling into the dog call-frequency range elicited more attention. Thus, domestic dogs’ responses depended strongly on the frequency range. Females responded both faster and more strongly than males, potentially reflecting asymmetries in parental care investment. Our results suggest that, despite domestication leading to an increased overall responsiveness to human cues, dogs still respond considerably less to calls in the natural human infant range than puppy range. Dogs appear to use a fast but inaccurate decision-making process to determine their response to distress-like vocalisations.Holly Root-GutteridgeVictoria F. RatcliffeJustine NeumannLucia TimarchiChloe YeungAnna T. KorzeniowskaNicolas MathevonDavid RebyNature PortfolioarticleMedicineRScienceQENScientific Reports, Vol 11, Iss 1, Pp 1-10 (2021)
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spellingShingle	Medicine R Science Q Holly Root-Gutteridge Victoria F. Ratcliffe Justine Neumann Lucia Timarchi Chloe Yeung Anna T. Korzeniowska Nicolas Mathevon David Reby Effect of pitch range on dogs’ response to conspecific vs. heterospecific distress cries
description	Abstract Distress cries are emitted by many mammal species to elicit caregiving attention. Across taxa, these calls tend to share similar acoustic structures, but not necessarily frequency range, raising the question of their interspecific communicative potential. As domestic dogs are highly responsive to human emotional cues and experience stress when hearing human cries, we explore whether their responses to distress cries from human infants and puppies depend upon sharing conspecific frequency range or species-specific call characteristics. We recorded adult dogs’ responses to distress cries from puppies and human babies, emitted from a loudspeaker in a basket. The frequency of the cries was presented in both their natural range and also shifted to match the other species. Crucially, regardless of species origin, calls falling into the dog call-frequency range elicited more attention. Thus, domestic dogs’ responses depended strongly on the frequency range. Females responded both faster and more strongly than males, potentially reflecting asymmetries in parental care investment. Our results suggest that, despite domestication leading to an increased overall responsiveness to human cues, dogs still respond considerably less to calls in the natural human infant range than puppy range. Dogs appear to use a fast but inaccurate decision-making process to determine their response to distress-like vocalisations.
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author	Holly Root-Gutteridge Victoria F. Ratcliffe Justine Neumann Lucia Timarchi Chloe Yeung Anna T. Korzeniowska Nicolas Mathevon David Reby
author_facet	Holly Root-Gutteridge Victoria F. Ratcliffe Justine Neumann Lucia Timarchi Chloe Yeung Anna T. Korzeniowska Nicolas Mathevon David Reby
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title	Effect of pitch range on dogs’ response to conspecific vs. heterospecific distress cries
title_short	Effect of pitch range on dogs’ response to conspecific vs. heterospecific distress cries
title_full	Effect of pitch range on dogs’ response to conspecific vs. heterospecific distress cries
title_fullStr	Effect of pitch range on dogs’ response to conspecific vs. heterospecific distress cries
title_full_unstemmed	Effect of pitch range on dogs’ response to conspecific vs. heterospecific distress cries
title_sort	effect of pitch range on dogs’ response to conspecific vs. heterospecific distress cries
publisher	Nature Portfolio
publishDate	2021
url	https://doaj.org/article/c5a0ac8a6a364175987a31154eaead47
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Effect of pitch range on dogs’ response to conspecific vs. heterospecific distress cries

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