Exploring the causes and consequences of cooperative behaviour in wild animal populations using a social network approach

S Gokcekus, EF Cole, BC Sheldon… - Biological Reviews, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Understanding why individuals carry out behaviours that benefit others, especially
genetically unrelated others, has been a major undertaking in many fields and particularly in …

Who you live with and what you duet for: a review of the function of primate duets in relation to their social organization

C De Gregorio, D Valente, V Ferrario… - Journal of Comparative …, 2024 - Springer
Duets are one of the most fascinating displays in animal vocal communication, where two
animals fine-tune the timing of their emissions to create a coordinated signal. Duetting …

There you are! Automated detection of indris' songs on features extracted from passive acoustic recordings

D Ravaglia, V Ferrario, C De Gregorio, F Carugati… - Animals, 2023 - mdpi.com
Simple Summary Identifying vocalisations of given species from passive acoustic recordings
is a common step in bioacoustics. While manual labelling and identification are widespread …

Notes on a tree: reframing the relevance of primate choruses, duets, and solo songs

C De Gregorio, F Carugati, D Valente… - Ethology Ecology & …, 2022 - Taylor & Francis
The complexity of primates' singing behavior has long gathered the attention of researchers
interested in understanding the selective pressures underpinning the evolution of language …

Isochrony as ancestral condition to call and song in a primate

C De Gregorio, M Maiolini, T Raimondi… - Annals of the New …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Animal songs differ from calls in function and structure, and have comparative and
translational value, showing similarities to human music. Rhythm in music is often distributed …

Linguistic laws of brevity: conformity in Indri indri

D Valente, C De Gregorio, L Favaro, O Friard… - Animal cognition, 2021 - Springer
Vocal and gestural sequences of several primates have been found to conform to two
general principles of information compression: the compensation between the duration of a …

Parent-offspring turn-taking dynamics influence parents' song structure and elaboration in a singing primate

C De Gregorio, A Zanoli, F Carugati… - Frontiers in Ecology …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Parent-offspring interactions are essential to interpret animal social evolution and behavior,
but their role in mediating acoustic communication in animals that interact vocally is still …

Comparative Analysis of the Vocal Repertoires of the Indri (Indri indri) and the Diademed Sifaka (Propithecus diadema)

D Valente, L Miaretsoa, A Anania, F Costa… - International Journal of …, 2022 - Springer
Strepsirrhine vocalisations are extraordinarily diverse and cross-species comparisons are
needed to explore how this variability evolved. We contributed to the investigation of primate …

First evidence of contagious yawning in a wild lemur

D Valente, V Torti, C De Gregorio, M Gamba… - Behavioral Ecology and …, 2023 - Springer
Contrary to spontaneous yawning, yawn contagion occurs when yawning in a subject
(responder) is elicited by the yawns of others (triggers). Yawn contagion has been …

Not your private tête-à-tête: leveraging the power of higher-order networks to study animal communication

I Iacopini, JR Foote, NH Fefferman… - Philosophical …, 2024 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Animal communication is frequently studied with conventional network representations that
link pairs of individuals who interact, for example, through vocalization. However, acoustic …