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Internal acoustic structuring in pied babbler recruitment cries specifies the form of recruitment

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  • Sabrina Engesser
  • Amanda R Ridley
  • Marta B Manser
  • Andri Manser
  • Simon W Townsend

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Recent work suggests that animals combine sounds in meaning-generating ways. Adding to this body of data, we demonstrate that pied babblers produce 2 variants of a stereotyped structure when recruiting group members during group travel, with internal acoustic variation refining the signal’s meaning, specifying whether receivers should approach or follow the caller (i.e. come to/with me). Ultimately, examples of combinatorial mechanisms in nonhuman vocal systems can provide insights into the evolution of human language’s combinatorial system.

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  • Sabrina Engesser & Amanda R Ridley & Marta B Manser & Andri Manser & Simon W Townsend, 2018. "Internal acoustic structuring in pied babbler recruitment cries specifies the form of recruitment," Behavioral Ecology, International Society for Behavioral Ecology, vol. 29(5), pages 1021-1030.
    • Handle: RePEc:oup:beheco:v:29:y:2018:i:5:p:1021-1030.
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