Vocal and Social Learning of Avian Calls

鸟类叫声的声音和社交学习

基本信息

  • 批准号:
    NE/J018694/1
  • 负责人:
  • 金额:
    $ 43.53万
  • 依托单位:
  • 依托单位国家:
    英国
  • 项目类别:
    Fellowship
  • 财政年份:
    2012
  • 资助国家:
    英国
  • 起止时间:
    2012 至 无数据
  • 项目状态:
    已结题

项目摘要

Human language is one of the most impressive outcomes of evolution. We are one of just a few mammals (whales, elephants, seals, and bats, but no other primates) that learn their vocalizations. In contrast, vocal learning is common in birds, with thousands of species requiring social input for learning. Bird songs have become an exceptionally important model system for addressing all aspects of biology, ranging from gene expression and neural function to ecological and evolutionary questions. Just like humans produce different words and languages, many bird species also have diverse vocalizations for communicating a wide variety of information about their environments. However, to date only one of these signals (the sexual signals, or 'songs') has been studied in relation to vocal learning. The proposed work will be the first to examine vocal learning in other types of bird vocalizations ('calls'). I will examine vocal learning of two of the most important types of vocalizations that birds use to communicate about their environments: mobbing calls, and social group calls. The proposed study will focus on two groups of birds, each of which possesses highly developed social and ecological systems: tits (Family Paridae) and parrots (Family Psittacidae). Tits are some of our most beloved back-yard birds in the UK and although many of their behaviours are well studied, we know surprisingly little about their mobbing alarm calls. These calls advertise predators and recruit other flock members to harass, or 'mob' them. First, I will examine the mobbing calls of each species of British tit (great, blue, coal, marsh, willow, and crested tits) with field experiments to look at phylogenetic patterns in mobbing calls and whether they use a similar signalling system to North American chickadees. Chickadees have one of the most sophisticated alarm call systems of any animal, with different calls indicating the type of predator and subtle variations within a call indicating the specific level of threat. Do British tits use a similar vocal system to communicate about predators in their environment? Next, I will examine how birds learn to produce their mobbing alarm calls using a series of laboratory experiments conducted at St Andrews. Last, I will study how birds learn to use the alarm calls of other species to gain information about predators through a series of social learning experiments. The ability of animals to eavesdrop on the vocal signals of other species is one of the most exciting areas of research in bioacoustics and this will be the first study to experimentally examine how they learn this behaviour.Like tits, parrots have complex social systems. Because they often live in fission-fusion societies with ever changing flock composition, they use social calls to communicate with flock members. Recent observations suggest that spectacled parrotlets may go one step further: they use specific vocalizations when engaging with certain individuals. Are these directed calls akin to human names? I will conduct experiments with a colony of spectacled parrotlets at St Andrews and make careful behavioural observations with wild birds in Panama to test how birds use their social calls to communicate with other members of their flock. If these birds use a system similar to humans, it will be the first demonstration of 'names' in an avian species, and will provide the basis for truly comparative work (with humans and dolphins) examining the ecological conditions required for the evolution of 'names.'This combination of work with tits and parrotlets will be some of the first research conducted on social and vocal learning of bird calls, will provide key advances in our understanding of how animals communicate about their environments with members of their own and other species, will lead to important research publications, and will enable me to establish my UK career and develop my reputation as a leading bioacoustics researcher.
人类语言是进化过程中最令人印象深刻的成果之一。我们是为数不多的哺乳动物之一(鲸鱼,大象,海豹和蝙蝠,但没有其他灵长类动物),学习他们的发声。相比之下,声音学习在鸟类中很常见,成千上万的物种需要社会输入才能学习。鸟鸣已经成为解决生物学各个方面的一个非常重要的模型系统,从基因表达和神经功能到生态和进化问题。就像人类产生不同的单词和语言一样,许多鸟类也有不同的发声方式来传达有关其环境的各种信息。然而,到目前为止,这些信号中只有一个(性信号,或“歌曲”)与声乐学习有关。这项工作将是第一个研究其他类型的鸟类发声(“呼叫”)的声音学习。我将研究鸟类用来交流环境的两种最重要的发声方式的声音学习:骚扰叫声和社会群体叫声。拟议的研究将集中在两组鸟类,每一组都具有高度发达的社会和生态系统:山雀(Paridae科)和鹦鹉(Psittacidae科)。山雀是我们在英国最喜爱的后院鸟类之一,尽管它们的许多行为都得到了很好的研究,但我们对它们的骚扰警报却知之甚少。这些叫声为捕食者做广告,并招募其他鸟群成员来骚扰或“围攻”它们。首先,我将研究每个物种的英国山雀(大,蓝,煤,沼泽,杨柳,和冠山雀)的骚扰电话与现场实验,看看在骚扰电话的系统发育模式,以及他们是否使用类似的信号系统北美山雀。山雀有一个最复杂的报警系统的任何动物,不同的呼叫表明类型的捕食者和微妙的变化,在一个呼叫表明具体的威胁程度。英国山雀是否使用类似的声音系统来交流它们环境中的捕食者?接下来,我将通过在圣安德鲁斯进行的一系列实验来研究鸟类是如何学会发出骚扰警报的。最后,我将通过一系列的社会学习实验来研究鸟类是如何学会利用其他物种的警报声来获取捕食者的信息的。动物偷听其他物种声音信号的能力是生物声学研究中最令人兴奋的领域之一,这将是第一项通过实验研究它们如何学习这种行为的研究。因为它们经常生活在裂变融合的社会中,群体的组成不断变化,它们使用社会呼叫与群体成员交流。最近的观察表明,鹦鹉可能会更进一步:它们在与某些人接触时使用特定的发声。这些定向叫声与人类的名字相似吗?我将在圣安德鲁斯用一群小鹦鹉进行实验,并对巴拿马的野生鸟类进行仔细的行为观察,以测试鸟类如何利用它们的社会叫声与群中的其他成员进行交流。如果这些鸟类使用类似于人类的系统,这将是第一次在鸟类物种中展示“名字”,并将为真正的比较工作(与人类和海豚)提供基础,检查“名字”进化所需的生态条件。“这种与山雀和鹦鹉的工作相结合将是对鸟类叫声的社会和声音学习进行的第一次研究,将为我们理解动物如何与自己和其他物种的成员交流环境提供关键进展,将导致重要的研究出版物,并将使我能够建立我的英国职业生涯,并发展我作为领先的生物声学研究人员的声誉。

项目成果

期刊论文数量(10)
专著数量(0)
科研奖励数量(0)
会议论文数量(0)
专利数量(0)
Sparrowhawk movement, calling, and presence of dead conspecifics differentially impact blue tit (Cyanistes caeruleus) vocal and behavioral mobbing responses.
  • DOI:
    10.1007/s00265-017-2361-x
  • 发表时间:
    2017
  • 期刊:
  • 影响因子:
    2.3
  • 作者:
    Carlson NV;Pargeter HM;Templeton CN
  • 通讯作者:
    Templeton CN
American Crow Brain Activity in Response to Conspecific Vocalizations Changes When Food Is Present.
  • DOI:
    10.3389/fphys.2021.766345
  • 发表时间:
    2021
  • 期刊:
  • 影响因子:
    4
  • 作者:
    Pendergraft LT;Marzluff JM;Cross DJ;Shimizu T;Templeton CN
  • 通讯作者:
    Templeton CN
Riverside wren pairs jointly defend their territories against simulated intruders
河滨鹪鹩对共同保卫自己的领地,抵御模拟入侵者
  • DOI:
    10.1111/eth.12694
  • 发表时间:
    2017
  • 期刊:
  • 影响因子:
    1.7
  • 作者:
    Quirós-Guerrero E
  • 通讯作者:
    Quirós-Guerrero E
Wild fledgling tits do not mob in response to conspecific or heterospecific mobbing calls
野生雏鸟不会响应同种或异种的围攻叫声
  • DOI:
    10.1111/ibi.12754
  • 发表时间:
    2019
  • 期刊:
  • 影响因子:
    2.1
  • 作者:
    Carlson N
  • 通讯作者:
    Carlson N
Stress hormones, social associations and song learning in zebra finches.
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Christopher Templeton其他文献

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RUI: Effects of Traffic Noise on Avian Cognition
RUI:交通噪音对鸟类认知的影响
  • 批准号:
    2207395
  • 财政年份:
    2022
  • 资助金额:
    $ 43.53万
  • 项目类别:
    Standard Grant
International Research Fellowship Program: Song Learning in Duetting Birds
国际研究奖学金计划:鸟类二重唱中的歌曲学习
  • 批准号:
    0902284
  • 财政年份:
    2010
  • 资助金额:
    $ 43.53万
  • 项目类别:
    Fellowship

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