Wolf species have ‘howling dialects’
Monday, February 8, 2016 - 12:39
in Biology & Nature
The largest ever study of howling in the ‘canid’ family of species — which includes wolves, jackals and domestic dogs — has shown that the various species and subspecies have distinguishing repertoires of howling, or “vocal fingerprints”: different types of howls are used with varying regularity depending on the canid species. Researchers used computer algorithms […]