Mother–offspring recognition in the domestic cat: Kittens recognize their own mother's call. Issue 5 (3rd March 2016)
- Record Type:
- Journal Article
- Title:
- Mother–offspring recognition in the domestic cat: Kittens recognize their own mother's call. Issue 5 (3rd March 2016)
- Main Title:
- Mother–offspring recognition in the domestic cat: Kittens recognize their own mother's call
- Authors:
- Szenczi, Péter
Bánszegi, Oxána
Urrutia, Andrea
Faragó, Tamás
Hudson, Robyn - Abstract:
- ABSTRACT: Acoustic communication can play an important part in mother‐young recognition in many mammals. This, however, has still only been investigated in a small range mainly of herd‐ or colony‐living species. Here we report on the behavioral response of kittens of the domestic cat, a typically solitary carnivore, to playbacks of "greeting chirps" and "meows" from their own versus alien mothers. We found significantly stronger responses to the chirps from kittens' own mother than to her meows or to the chirps or meows of alien mothers. Acoustic analysis revealed greater variation between vocalizations from different mothers than for vocalizations from the same mother. We conclude that chirps emitted by mother cats at the nest represent a specific form of vocal communication with their young, and that kittens learn and respond positively to these and distinguish them from chirps of other mothers and from other cat vocalizations while still in the nest. © 2016 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Dev Psychobiol 58: 568–577, 2016.
- Is Part Of:
- Developmental psychobiology. Volume 58:Issue 5(2016)
- Journal:
- Developmental psychobiology
- Issue:
- Volume 58:Issue 5(2016)
- Issue Display:
- Volume 58, Issue 5 (2016)
- Year:
- 2016
- Volume:
- 58
- Issue:
- 5
- Issue Sort Value:
- 2016-0058-0005-0000
- Page Start:
- 568
- Page End:
- 577
- Publication Date:
- 2016-03-03
- Subjects:
- vocalization -- vocal recognition -- mother‐offspring communication -- maternal care -- domestic cat -- Felis silvestris catus -- playback -- acoustic analysis
Psychobiology -- Periodicals
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- http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/10.1002/(ISSN)1098-2302 ↗
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/ ↗ - DOI:
- 10.1002/dev.21402 ↗
- Languages:
- English
- ISSNs:
- 0012-1630
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