Honest Lovers? Fallow Buck Groans Reveal Their Status And Size D...

Courtesy ScienceDaily  Fri, 09/05/2008 - 17:15

Researchers have show for the first time that sexually selected vocalizations can signal social dominance in mammals other than primates, and reveal that the independent acoustic components -- fundamental frequency (pitch) and formant frequencies -- encode information on dominance status and body size, respectively.


 

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