Purring and similar vocalizations in mammals
Purring and similar vocalizations in mammals
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哺乳动物的咕噜声和类似的发声
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2002
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G. Peters
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G. Peters
咕噜声和咕噜声这两个词曾被用来指各种哺乳动物以不同的顺序发出的声音。文献中也描述了其他一些哺乳动物的发声，它们在结构上与猫科动物的呼噜声有些相似，但被赋予了另一个术语。因为使用相同的术语意味着“相同的”，这在进化意义上只能意味着这样命名的发音是同源的(=分享相同的祖先发声类型)，术语咕噜声和咕噜声应仅限于与猫科动物的呼噜声同源的发声，任何与猫科动物的呼噜声同源的哺乳动物发声应相应地命名。根据目前的知识，“真正的”呼噜声只存在于食肉动物的变形科和猫科动物中。在结构上非常相似的发声发生在食肉目和其他几个哺乳动物目的其他家族中匹配的行为背景中。这些发声类型中的大多数很可能是收敛地进化的。
The terms purr and purring have been used for vocalizations produced by a variety of mammalian species in different orders. A few other mammalian vocalizations that are structurally somewhat similar to felid purring but have been given another term have also been described in the literature. Because use of the same term implies ‘sameness’, which in an evolutionary sense can only mean that the vocalizations so named are homologous (= share the same ancestral vocalization type), the terms purr and purring ought to be restricted to vocalizations homologous with felid purring, and any mammalian vocalization homologous with felid purring ought to be named accordingly. According to present knowledge ‘true’ purring is established only in the families Viverridae and Felidae of the Carnivora. Vocalizations very similar in structure occur in matching behavioural contexts in other families of the Carnivora and several other mammalian orders. Most of these vocalization types are likely to have evolved convergently.