Baboon loud calls advertise male quality: acoustic features and their relation to rank, age, and exhaustion

By Julia Fischer, D. Kitchen, R. Seyfarth, D. Cheney. Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology, 2004

286 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Cognitive Neuroscience, Developmental Biology, Signal Processing

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In Cognitive Neuroscience

1. A. McElligott

In Developmental Biology

1. A. McElligott
2. Anna M. Taylor
3. D. Reby
4. Elisabetta Vannoni
5. D. Cheney
6. R. Seyfarth
7. E. Briefer
8. K. McComb

In Signal Processing

1. D. Reby

Citations in the corpus

• Chest Color and Social Status in Male Geladas (Theropithecus gelada) (2009, unknown): “Despite the wealth of data on signals from other taxa, only very recently have quality signals been studied in primates (Fischer et al. 2004; Gerald 2001; Gouzoules and Gouzoules 2002; Kitchen et al. 2003; Setchell 2005; Setchell and Wickings 2005; Setchell et al. 2008).”
• Individual Acoustic Variation in Fallow Deer (Dama dama) Common and Harsh Groans: A Source-Filter Theory Perspective (2007, background): “During the breeding season, fallow deer males feed very little and lose approximately 26% of their body weight (McElligott et al. 2003), and there is some evidence from primates and deer that the acoustic structure of vocalizations can be affected by exhaustion (McComb 1988; Fischer et al. 2004).”
• Vocal signalling of male southern elephant seals is honest but imprecise (2007, background): “The mammalian vocal tract can be modelled as a uniform tube closed at one end (glottis) and open at the other (mouth) (Fitch 1997, 2000; Reby & McComb 2003; Fischer et al. 2004).”
• The contribution of source–filter theory to mammal vocal communication research (2010, background): “For example, male baboons with a high dominance status produce calls with a higher F0 than lower ranked males (Fischer et al., 2004), presumably because they have a high reproductive and territorial motivation and are in a higher state of physiological arousal.”
• Context-Related Variation in the Vocal Growling Behaviour of the Domestic Dog (Canis familiaris) (2009, background): “In many mammal species, call duration and ⁄or calling rate have been linked to physiological arousal (suricates: Manser 2001; Manser et al. 2002; baboons: Fischer et al. 2004; bats: Bastian & Schmidt 2008).”
• Who, me? Can baboons infer the target of vocalizations? (2006, background): “Previous playback experiments (Bergman et al. 2003) indicate that threatgrunts, like other vocalizations given by baboons (Owren et al. 1997; Rendall et al. 1999; Fischer et al. 2001, 2004 ) and many other primates (e.g.”
• Sexual Selection in the Loud Calls of Male Primates: Signal Content and Function (2006, background): “In addition, the pitch of male loud calls changes with dominance status independent of size (Fischer et al., 2004).”
• Vocal Repertoire of Cebus capucinus: Acoustic Structure, Context, and Usage (2008, background): “For example, Fischer et al. (2004) demonstrated that fundamental frequency characteristics of baboon loud calls change with age and changing dominance status.”