Highlights•Comparison of vocal individuality between life-history stages allows for
identification of selection pressures and potential strategic use by senders.•Vocal …

Social factors play a key role in the structuring of vocal repertoires at the individual level,
notably in non-human primates. Some authors suggested that, at the species level too …

In the subantarctic fur seal Arctocephalus tropicalis, mothers leave their pups during the
rearing period to make long and frequent feeding trips to sea. When a female returns from …

Highlights•Little auks are very colonial seabirds with strong partner and nest fidelity.•We
investigated identity coding in vocalizations of 29 known individuals.•Calls could be reliably …

In humans, identity is partly encoded in a voice-print that is carried across multiple
vocalizations. Other species also signal vocal identity in calls, such as shown in the contact …

Highlights•We investigated the coding of individual signature in a graded vocal
repertoire.•We compared the strength of individual vocal signature across the bonobo …

The ability to recognize the identity of conspecifics is a key component for survival of many
animal species and is fundamental to social interactions such as parental care, intra-sexual …

Acoustic variability and individual distinctiveness of vocal signals are expected to vary with
both their communicative function and the need for individual recognition during social …

We test relationships between structure of acoustic signal used for individual recognition
and nesting ecology among two gulls: the black-headed gull (Larus ridibundus), in which …

Le chant «chick-a-dee» de la mésange à tête noire, Poecile atricapillus (L., 1766), est
composé de quatre types de notes et il est utilisé dans de nombreux contextes, comme …