Mother-pup recognition mechanisms in Australia sea lion (Neophoca cinerea) using uni- and multi-modal approaches.
Australian sea lion
Communication
Multimodal recognition
Sensory modalities
Journal
Animal cognition
ISSN: 1435-9456
Titre abrégé: Anim Cogn
Pays: Germany
ID NLM: 9814573
Informations de publication
Date de publication:
Oct 2022
Oct 2022
Historique:
received:
14
01
2022
accepted:
23
05
2022
revised:
19
05
2022
pubmed:
17
6
2022
medline:
2
11
2022
entrez:
16
6
2022
Statut:
ppublish
Résumé
Communication is the process by which one emitter conveys information to one or several receivers to induce a response (behavioral or physiological) by the receiver. Communication plays a major role in various biological functions and may involve signals and cues from different sensory modalities. Traditionally, investigations of animal communication focused on a single sensory modality, yet communication is often multimodal. As these different processes may be quite complex and therefore difficult to disentangle, one approach is to first study each sensorial modality separately. With this refined understanding of individual senses, revealing how they interact becomes possible as the characteristics and properties of each modality can be accounted for, making a multimodal approach feasible. Using this framework, researchers undertook systematic, experimental investigations on mother-pup recognition processes in a colonial pinniped species, the Australian sea lion Neophoca cinerea. The research first assessed the abilities of mothers and pups to identify each other by their voice using playback experiments. Second, they assessed whether visual cues are used by both mothers and pups to distinguish them from conspecifics, and/or whether females discriminate the odor of their filial pup from those from non-filial pups. Finally, to understand if the information transmitted by different sensory modalities is analyzed synergistically or if there is a hierarchy among the sensory modalities, experiments were performed involving different sensory cues simultaneously. These findings are discussed with regards to the active space of each sensory cue, and of the potential enhancements that may arise by assessing information from different modalities.
Identifiants
pubmed: 35708854
doi: 10.1007/s10071-022-01641-5
pii: 10.1007/s10071-022-01641-5
doi:
Types de publication
Journal Article
Review
Langues
eng
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1019-1028Informations de copyright
© 2022. The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer-Verlag GmbH Germany, part of Springer Nature.
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