Wolf Howling and Emergency Sirens: A Hypothesis of Natural and Technical Convergence of Aposematic Signals
The result's identifiers
Result code in IS VaVaI
<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F60460709%3A41320%2F20%3A85139" target="_blank" >RIV/60460709:41320/20:85139 - isvavai.cz</a>
Result on the web
<a href="https://doi.org/10.1007/s10441-020-09389-6" target="_blank" >https://doi.org/10.1007/s10441-020-09389-6</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10441-020-09389-6" target="_blank" >10.1007/s10441-020-09389-6</a>
Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Wolf Howling and Emergency Sirens: A Hypothesis of Natural and Technical Convergence of Aposematic Signals
Original language description
Acoustic signals serving intraspecific communication by predators are perceived by potential prey as warning signals. We analysed the acoustic characteristics of howling of wolves and found a striking similarity to the warning sounds of technical sirens. We hypothesize that the effectivity of sirens as warning signals has been enhanced by natural sensory predisposition of humans to get alerted by howling of wolves, with which they have a long history of coexistence. Psychoacoustic similarity of both stimuli seems to be supported by the fact that wolves and dogs perceive the sound of technical sirens as a relevant releasing supernormal stimulus and reply to it with howling. Inspiration by naturally occurring acoustic aposematic signals might become an interesting example of biomimetics in designing new warning sound systems.
Czech name
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Czech description
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Classification
Type
J<sub>imp</sub> - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
10602 - Biology (theoretical, mathematical, thermal, cryobiology, biological rhythm), Evolutionary biology
Result continuities
Project
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Continuities
S - Specificky vyzkum na vysokych skolach
Others
Publication year
2020
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Name of the periodical
ACTA BIOTHEORETICA
ISSN
0001-5342
e-ISSN
1572-8358
Volume of the periodical
2020
Issue of the periodical within the volume
1
Country of publishing house
CZ - CZECH REPUBLIC
Number of pages
13
Pages from-to
1-13
UT code for WoS article
000565490400001
EID of the result in the Scopus database
2-s2.0-85090115023