Cats will use
vocalisation for a number of reasons: to greet their owners after a period of absence, communicate mood, alert their owner to danger or to request something.
Not exact matches
From an early age, human infants are able to produce
vocalisations in a wide range of emotional states and situations — an ability felt to be one of the factors required
for the development of language.
«This connection between an innate call and the activity of a brain area important to learned
vocalisations suggests that during the evolution of songbirds, the role of the song area in the brain changed from being a simple
vocalisation system
for innate calls to a specialised neural network
for learned songs,» concludes Manfred Gahr, coordinator of the study.
This relationship between unlearned calls and an area of the brain responsible
for learned
vocalisations is important
for understanding the evolution of song learning in songbirds.
People had earlier speculated that giraffes are unable to produce any substantial sounds because it is physically difficult
for them to generate sufficient airflow through their long necks to produce
vocalisations.
A specific area is dedicated to the
vocalisations of their congeners, making it possible to distinguish them from (
for example) environmental noises.