Simple Summary Identifying vocalisations of given species from passive acoustic recordings
is a common step in bioacoustics. While manual labelling and identification are widespread …

The complexity of primates' singing behavior has long gathered the attention of researchers
interested in understanding the selective pressures underpinning the evolution of language …

In animal vocal communication, the development of adult-like vocalization is fundamental to
interact appropriately with conspecifics. However, the factors that guide ontogenetic …

Information compression is a general principle of human language: the most frequent words
are shorter in length (Zipf's Law of Brevity) and the duration of constituents decreases as the …

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 …

Contextual variation in the loud calls of strepsirhine primates is poorly understood. To
understand whether songs given by indris in different contexts represent acoustically distinct …

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 …

Among the behavioral traits shared by some nonhuman primate species and humans there
is singing. Unfortunately, our understanding of animals' rhythmic abilities is still in its infancy …

Animal acoustic communication often takes the form of complex sequences, composed of
multiple distinct acoustic units, which can vary in their degree of stereotypy. Studies of …

The increasing interest in the evolution of human language has led several fields of
research to focus on primate vocal communication. The 'singing primates', which produce …