Recursive self-embedded vocal motifs in wild orangutans

  1. Adriano R Lameira  Is a corresponding author
  2. Madeleine E Hardus
  3. Andrea Ravignani
  4. Teresa Raimondi
  5. Marco Gamba
  1. Department of Psychology, University of Warwick, United Kingdom
  2. Independent Researcher, United Kingdom
  3. Comparative Bioacoustics Group, Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, Netherlands
  4. Center for Music in the Brain, Department of Clinical Medicine, Aarhus University & The Royal Academy of Music Aarhus/Aalborg, Denmark
  5. Department of Human Neurosciences, Sapienza University of Rome, Italy
  6. Department of Life Sciences and Systems Biology, University of Turino, Italy
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Organization and rhythmic features of orangutans’ long calls.

(A) Top: the spectrogram of a full pulse and its organization in sub-pulses (e.g., grumble sub-pulses). Below are the spectrograms of the three other sub-element types: sub-pulse transitory

Isochrony nested within isochrony.

Three acoustically distinct sub-pulse calls occurring at three distinct tempi nested within the same pulse-level tempo in wild flanged male orangutan long calls.

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