12/15/2023 0 Comments Donkey sound![]() ![]() But it also depends on the social status of the animal because dominant stallions have a much lower pitch voice than subordinate stallions. For instance, you can have a much higher pitch voice in mares than in geldings which are also higher pitched than stallions. And we found that duration or frequency parameters change. So in order to be sure that this has a social function, we studied the acoustic structures of weenie calls to see if we can find acoustic differences between individuals. So it's a kind of long distance contact call. It's the weenie call that we have studied more intensively and this is a particular call that they often produce when they are far from each other. Alban - They have a very small vocal repertoire of a few calls and one call is particularly interesting. Horses actually have a number of different calls as Alban describes. So it could be something the modern horse hasn't inherited, or they might differ because of the social organisation of their species. Now donkeys and zebras are thought to be more closely related. So let's hear how different these noises are and here's a horse: A donkey: And a zebra: There is a sort of similarity between them all with both the zebra and the donkey doing that sort of hiccup with their braying. Diana - Believe it or not, no one has worked on comparing the noises of these animals properly. It has something to do with phylogeny and anatomy. ![]() But we really don't know this has to be studied more systematically. My only experience is when I was working in the fields, I often listened to zebras and it sounds like in between mules and horses. We don't know anything between mules and donkeys, or zebras for instance. We posed this Question to Dr Alban Lemasson from University of Rennes in France.Īlban - So to this question, I really can't say because there's just very few work done on equine vocal communications. ![]()
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