GREAT TITS CLASSIFY SONGS BY INDIVIDUAL VOICE CHARACTERISTICS

被引:73
作者
WEARY, DM [1 ]
KREBS, JR [1 ]
机构
[1] EDWARD GREY INST FIELD ORNITHOL,OXFORD OX1 3PS,ENGLAND
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10.1016/S0003-3472(05)80223-4
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B84 [心理学]; C [社会科学总论]; Q98 [人类学];
学科分类号
03 ; 0303 ; 030303 ; 04 ; 0402 ;
摘要
The first experimental evidence that birds are able to recognize the general voice characteristics of an individual's song repertoire is reported. Five captive male great tits, Parus major, were taught to discriminate between songs from the repertoires of two individuals. They were then tested with unfamiliar songs from the same two birds, which they were able to assign to the correct individual. These results provide a mechanism by which the well-known phenomenon of individual recognition by voice in birds can be achieved. © 1992 The Association for the Study of Animal Behaviour.
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