Unpacking “Honesty”: Vertebrate Vocal Production and the Evolution of Acoustic Signals

By W. Tecumseh Fitch, Marc D. Hauser. 2003

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Subfields: Developmental Biology, Ecology, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics

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The central importance of information in studies of animal communication. (2010, background): “Twoexamples are the relationship between call frequency and body size in frogs and toads (reviewed in Searcy & Nowicki 2005), and between formant spacing and body size in several mammals (reviewed in Fitch & Hauser 2003).”
Individual, age and sex-specific information is contained in yellow-bellied marmot alarm calls (2005, background): “In this case, potential information contained in a call might not have been strongly selected for, per se, but rather may result from individual or systematic variation in vocal track morphology (e.g. Fitch & Hauser 1995, 2003 ).”
Acoustic Features of Female Chacma Baboon Barks (2001, background): “(For a tutorial on the sound production of animal vocalizations, see Fitch & Hauser 2000).”
Individual Acoustic Variation in Fallow Deer (Dama dama) Common and Harsh Groans: A Source-Filter Theory Perspective (2007, positive): “The presence of individual characteristics in mammal vocalizations is not surprising because the individual morphology of their vocal apparatus directly influences the spectral structure of the emitted signal (Fitch & Hauser 1995, 2003; Riede et al. 2005; McElligott et al. 2006).”
Deception as a Derived Function of Language (2016, background): “In summary, studies from developmental psychology similarly indicate an underlying rarity, tendency toward prosociality, and context-sensitive aspect of most cases of lying and deception.”
Vocal signalling of male southern elephant seals is honest but imprecise (2007, background): “…pattern differs from that of nonmammalian species (Morton 1977; Davies & Halliday 1978; Ryan 1980), because mammalian vocal folds are not constrained by the neighbouring bony structures, so their size and shape can be changed easily during vocalization (Fry 1979; Fitch 1997; Fitch & Hauser 2002).”
The Evolution of Language: A Comparative Review (2005, background): “A substantial theoretical literature makes clear that ‘honest’ communication of any sort is difficult to evolve, particularly in sexually selected systems (Fitch and Hauser 2002; Maynard Smith and Harper 2003).”
Sounds and size: identification of acoustic variables that reflect body size in hamadryas baboons, Papio hamadryas (2006, background): “This latter aspect has become of particular interest in the study of acoustic signals (Fitch & Hauser 2003) and has led to the question of which signal features most accurately reflect the anatomy of the caller.”
Size Communication in domestic dog (Canis familiaris) growls. (2010, positive): “…is often reliable or ‘honest’, because vocal production mechanisms impose biophysical constraints on specific acoustic parameters, leading to predictable covariation between these parameters and the physical attributes of the animals that produce them (Fitch 2002; Fitch & Hauser 2002).”
The Evolution, Function, and Meaning of Marmot Alarm Communication (2007, background): “From a proximate standpoint, laryngeal variation will inevitably lead to some acoustic variation (Fitch and Hauser, 1995, 2003).”
Androgen-dependent male vocal performance influences female preference in Neotropical singing mice (2011, neutral): “Frequency bandwidths are much higher in mice (17e30 kHz) than in birds (1e8 kHz; Podos 1997; Ballentine et al. 2004; Illes et al. 2006; Janicke et al. 2008), reflecting divergent mechanisms of vocal production (Fitch & Hauser 2003).”
The contribution of source–filter theory to mammal vocal communication research (2010, background): “Here we update the notion of ‘honest signalling’ (Fitch & Hauser, 2002) with a range of empirical tests conducted within the source–filter framework.”
Chapter 5 Vocal Performance and Sensorimotor Learning in Songbirds (2009, background): “This appears to exaggerate birds’ size, and thus may have evolved as an adaptive ploy for circumventing signal reliability with respect to information transmitted about body size (Fitch and Hauser, 2003).”
Vocal indicators of body size in men and women: a meta-analysis (2014, background): “Decoupling has been demonstrated in several species of birds, anurans, bats and many mammalian species including humans (see Fitch & Hauser, 2003).”