Theme: Biodiversity, Ecology & Conservation
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Project Description:Like humans, chimpanzees exhibit a fluid social organisation. Individuals from the same community never congregate and instead, form temporally and spatially ephemeral sub-groups, sometimes going days or weeks without seeing each other. When they do re-group, they rely on their long call – the pant hoot – to coordinate reunions. Whilst there is evidence of referentially specific calls (e.g. a “travel call” and “food call”), there is also evidence to suggest that chimpanzees exhibit signature calls, i.e. those that are individually specific. However, this has not been assessed using machine learning, a powerful and increasingly common tool in signal processing and pattern recognition. |
Policy Impact of Research:The research has implications to influence not only great ape survey methods, but also those for any other loud calling species, e.g. wild dogs, lion, gibbons, etc. |
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