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Mammal Sounds and Motivation-Structural Rules: A Test of the Hypothesis
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We tested if mammal sounds given in aggressive and fearful/friendly contexts showed acoustic design characteristics in accordance with the Motivation-Structural (MS) rule hypothesis (Morton, 1977). Our data were taken from literature and consist of 76 aggressive sounds and 75 fearful/friendly sounds from 50 species of mammals. Aggressive sounds are of low-frequency and wide bandwidth and thus support MS rule predictions. Fearful/friendly sounds show a trend toward conforming to MS rule design expectations (high-frequency and tonal) but exhibit considerable variation. This variation may be due to the existence of acoustic parameters other than frequency or bandwidth that might convey motivation information in fearful/friendly contexts. In addition, fear and friendliness represent two very different motivation states in mammals and MS rules may not apply to both.
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- Authors
- August, P. V., & Anderson, J. G. T.
- Venue
- Journal of Mammalogy
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press (OUP)
- Published
- 1987-02-27
- Volume
- 68
- Issue
- 1
- Pages
- 1-9
- ISSN
- 0022-2372 (ISSN-L)
- 1545-1542
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- W2333873577
- Cited by
- 163
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- 0
- FWCI
- 1.25
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- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
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