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Female cats, but not males, adjust responsiveness to arousal in the voice of kittens

BACKGROUND: The infant cry is the most important communicative tool to elicit adaptive parental behaviour. Sex-specific adaptation, linked to parental investment, may have evolutionary shaped the responsiveness to changes in the voice of the infant cries. The emotional content of infant cries may tr...

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Autores principales: Konerding, Wiebke S., Zimmermann, Elke, Bleich, Eva, Hedrich, Hans-Jürgen, Scheumann, Marina
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2016
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4982004/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27514377
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12862-016-0718-9