Segmental concatenation of individual signatures and context cues in banded mongoose (Mungos mungo) close calls

摘要: Background All animals are anatomically constrained in the number of discrete call types they can produce. Recent studies suggest that by combining existing calls into meaningful sequences, increase information content their vocal repertoire despite these constraints. Additionally, signalers use signatures or cues correlated to other individual traits contexts encoded vocalizations. However, encoding multiple using same components vocalizations usually reduces signals' reliability. Segregation could effectively circumvent this trade-off. In study we investigate how banded mongooses (Mungos mungo) encode frequently emitted graded single syllable close calls.