Inter-call intervals, but not call durations, adhere to Menzerath’s Law in the submissive vocal bouts of meerkats
Diverse information encoding systems, including human language, the vocal and gestural systems of non-human animals and the structure of DNA and proteins, have been found to conform to ‘Menzerath’s Law’—a negative relationship between the number of units composing a sequence, and the size of those u...
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| Main Authors: | Stuart Kyle Watson, Mara Zali, Nikola Falk, Paul Widmer, Marta B Manser |
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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The Royal Society
2024-12-01
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| Series: | Royal Society Open Science |
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| Online Access: | https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rsos.241351 |
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