Mate recognition and expression of affective state in croop calls of Northern Bald Ibis (Geronticus eremita).

Northern Bald Ibis are socially monogamous and year-round colonial birds with a moderate repertoire of calls. Their 'croop', for example, is used during greeting of mates, but also during agonistic encounters, and provides an ideal case to study whether calls are revealing with respect to...

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Autores principales: Georgine Szipl, Markus Boeckle, Sinja A B Werner, Kurt Kotrschal
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spelling oai:doaj.org-article:f556a7651ff2493da580981e51d8bc3d2021-11-18T08:33:35ZMate recognition and expression of affective state in croop calls of Northern Bald Ibis (Geronticus eremita).1932-620310.1371/journal.pone.0088265https://doaj.org/article/f556a7651ff2493da580981e51d8bc3d2014-01-01T00:00:00Zhttps://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/pmid/24505455/pdf/?tool=EBIhttps://doaj.org/toc/1932-6203Northern Bald Ibis are socially monogamous and year-round colonial birds with a moderate repertoire of calls. Their 'croop', for example, is used during greeting of mates, but also during agonistic encounters, and provides an ideal case to study whether calls are revealing with respect to motivational states. We recorded croop calls in a semi-tame and free-roaming flock of Northern Bald Ibis in Austria, and analysed the vocal structure to identify parameters (e.g. call duration, fundamental frequency) potentially differing between social contexts, sexes and individuals. Additionally, we conducted playback experiments to test whether mated pairs would discriminate each other by their greeting croops. Acoustic features showed highly variable temporal and structural parameters. Almost all calls could be classified correctly and assigned to the different social contexts and sexes. Classification results of greeting croops were less clear for individuality. However, incubating individuals looked up more often and longer in response to playbacks of the greeting calls of their mate than to other colony members, indicating mate recognition. We show that acoustic parameters of agonistic and greeting croops contain features that may indicate the expression of affective states, and that greeting croops encode individual differences that are sufficient for individual recognition.Georgine SziplMarkus BoeckleSinja A B WernerKurt KotrschalPublic Library of Science (PLoS)articleMedicineRScienceQENPLoS ONE, Vol 9, Iss 2, p e88265 (2014)
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Georgine Szipl
Markus Boeckle
Sinja A B Werner
Kurt Kotrschal
Mate recognition and expression of affective state in croop calls of Northern Bald Ibis (Geronticus eremita).
description Northern Bald Ibis are socially monogamous and year-round colonial birds with a moderate repertoire of calls. Their 'croop', for example, is used during greeting of mates, but also during agonistic encounters, and provides an ideal case to study whether calls are revealing with respect to motivational states. We recorded croop calls in a semi-tame and free-roaming flock of Northern Bald Ibis in Austria, and analysed the vocal structure to identify parameters (e.g. call duration, fundamental frequency) potentially differing between social contexts, sexes and individuals. Additionally, we conducted playback experiments to test whether mated pairs would discriminate each other by their greeting croops. Acoustic features showed highly variable temporal and structural parameters. Almost all calls could be classified correctly and assigned to the different social contexts and sexes. Classification results of greeting croops were less clear for individuality. However, incubating individuals looked up more often and longer in response to playbacks of the greeting calls of their mate than to other colony members, indicating mate recognition. We show that acoustic parameters of agonistic and greeting croops contain features that may indicate the expression of affective states, and that greeting croops encode individual differences that are sufficient for individual recognition.
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author Georgine Szipl
Markus Boeckle
Sinja A B Werner
Kurt Kotrschal
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Markus Boeckle
Sinja A B Werner
Kurt Kotrschal
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title Mate recognition and expression of affective state in croop calls of Northern Bald Ibis (Geronticus eremita).
title_short Mate recognition and expression of affective state in croop calls of Northern Bald Ibis (Geronticus eremita).
title_full Mate recognition and expression of affective state in croop calls of Northern Bald Ibis (Geronticus eremita).
title_fullStr Mate recognition and expression of affective state in croop calls of Northern Bald Ibis (Geronticus eremita).
title_full_unstemmed Mate recognition and expression of affective state in croop calls of Northern Bald Ibis (Geronticus eremita).
title_sort mate recognition and expression of affective state in croop calls of northern bald ibis (geronticus eremita).
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