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SUBMITTER: Root-Gutteridge H
PROVIDER: S-EPMC8492669 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Oct
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Root-Gutteridge Holly H Ratcliffe Victoria F VF Neumann Justine J Timarchi Lucia L Yeung Chloe C Korzeniowska Anna T AT Mathevon Nicolas N Reby David D
Scientific reports 20211005 1
Distress cries are emitted by many mammal species to elicit caregiving attention. Across taxa, these calls tend to share similar acoustic structures, but not necessarily frequency range, raising the question of their interspecific communicative potential. As domestic dogs are highly responsive to human emotional cues and experience stress when hearing human cries, we explore whether their responses to distress cries from human infants and puppies depend upon sharing conspecific frequency range o ...[more]