Vocal feel

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As Stimmfühlungslaute in are behavioral biology those vocalizations of animals and - figuratively - referred to the people who are primarily maintaining social contact with other dogs, so are "serving the group formation". Vocal feeling sounds are used in particular "in confusing living spaces to inform the partner or group members about their own stay." This purpose , which is attributed to them on the basis of behavioral observations, distinguishes voice feeling, for example, from warning and emergency calls and intraspecific threatening signals, as well as begging sounds and courtship calls .

As the smallest possible group, this can only be two individuals, for example father and child, mother and child or males and females, but also larger associations such as a flock of birds or a larger group of guinea pigs or bats . Particularly noticeable are the loud and incessantly generated vocal sounds of migrating cranes , in which even absolute laypeople can distinguish the rather croaking sounds of adult animals from the clearly lighter sounds of young birds.

Many young animals report with special voice-sensitive sounds (with so-called calls of abandonment ) when they can no longer perceive their parent animals, which in turn regularly prompts them to produce special voice-sensitive sounds ( answers ).

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Irenäus Eibl-Eibesfeldt : Outline of Comparative Behavioral Research. Piper, Munich and Zurich, 7th edition 1987, p. 255.
  2. Lexicon of Biology in eight volumes. Volume 8. Herder Verlag, Freiburg, Basel and Vienna 1987, p. 65.
  3. ^ Irenäus Eibl-Eibesfeldt: Outline of Comparative Behavioral Research. Piper, Munich and Zurich, 7th edition 1987, pp. 257-273.
  4. Singing, chattering, trilling: this is how zebra finches talk. On: ivh-online.de from July 15, 2010.