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The role of vocal individuality in conservation
Identifying the individuals within a population can generate information on life history parameters, generate input data for conservation models, and highlight behavioural traits that may affect management decisions and error or bias within census methods. Individual animals can be discriminated by...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1183234/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15960848 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1742-9994-2-10 |
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author | Terry, Andrew MR Peake, Tom M McGregor, Peter K |
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description | Identifying the individuals within a population can generate information on life history parameters, generate input data for conservation models, and highlight behavioural traits that may affect management decisions and error or bias within census methods. Individual animals can be discriminated by features of their vocalisations. This vocal individuality can be utilised as an alternative marking technique in situations where the marks are difficult to detect or animals are sensitive to disturbance. Vocal individuality can also be used in cases were the capture and handling of an animal is either logistically or ethically problematic. Many studies have suggested that vocal individuality can be used to count and monitor populations over time; however, few have explicitly tested the method in this role. In this review we discuss methods for extracting individuality information from vocalisations and techniques for using this to count and monitor populations over time. We present case studies in birds where vocal individuality has been applied to conservation and we discuss its role in mammals. |
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spelling | pubmed-11832342005-08-06 The role of vocal individuality in conservation Terry, Andrew MR Peake, Tom M McGregor, Peter K Front Zool Review Identifying the individuals within a population can generate information on life history parameters, generate input data for conservation models, and highlight behavioural traits that may affect management decisions and error or bias within census methods. Individual animals can be discriminated by features of their vocalisations. This vocal individuality can be utilised as an alternative marking technique in situations where the marks are difficult to detect or animals are sensitive to disturbance. Vocal individuality can also be used in cases were the capture and handling of an animal is either logistically or ethically problematic. Many studies have suggested that vocal individuality can be used to count and monitor populations over time; however, few have explicitly tested the method in this role. In this review we discuss methods for extracting individuality information from vocalisations and techniques for using this to count and monitor populations over time. We present case studies in birds where vocal individuality has been applied to conservation and we discuss its role in mammals. BioMed Central 2005-06-16 /pmc/articles/PMC1183234/ /pubmed/15960848 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1742-9994-2-10 Text en Copyright © 2005 Terry et al; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0 This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License ( (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0) ), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. |
spellingShingle | Review Terry, Andrew MR Peake, Tom M McGregor, Peter K The role of vocal individuality in conservation |
title | The role of vocal individuality in conservation |
title_full | The role of vocal individuality in conservation |
title_fullStr | The role of vocal individuality in conservation |
title_full_unstemmed | The role of vocal individuality in conservation |
title_short | The role of vocal individuality in conservation |
title_sort | role of vocal individuality in conservation |
topic | Review |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1183234/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15960848 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1742-9994-2-10 |
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