Domestic piglets (Sus scrofa domestica) are attentive to human voice and able to discriminate some prosodic features
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DOI: 10.1016/j.applanim.2018.10.009
Abstract: Vocal communication is of major social importance in pigs. Their auditory sensitivity goes beyond the intraspecific level; studies have shown that domestic pigs are sensitive to and can learn to recognise human voices. The question… read more here.
Keywords: voice; prosodic features; high pitched; human voice ... See more keywords