I love planning events for children – it’s just fun to make things fun for them! Sometimes I have a party theme in mind and other times I’m inspired to create a theme based on a photo, activity, color scheme, or any other random element that catches my eye. I’ve written before about his nursery and transition to a big boy room (still getting around to that final room reveal post), but at the end of the week he’ll turn three, so right now I’m focused on planning a sweet, simple, and fun afternoon party for family and friends. 2 – one of the sweetest little guys you ever will meet. We’re not necessarily horse whisperers…but it seems we all feel for that little piggy when it goes > to make its emotions known.It’s February! In our house, this means its time to celebrate my No.
That suggests that we may be hardwired to recognize babies in distress. These shifts in pitch are perhaps clearest in the vocalization of infants, such as the piglet > used in this study. The listeners seem to be tuning in on the higher frequency of alarm calls, the researchers say. “The finding thus suggests that humans’ ability to recognize higher levels of emotional intensity in animal vocalizations is biologically universal.” They were also able to tell when actors speaking in Tamil, a language none of them had ever heard before, sounded upset. Participants who spoke English, German or Mandarin all did equally well at pointing out which chirps, squeals, and hoots were emotionally charged. “Interestingly, we did not find any effect of language background on the human’s accuracy.” Piera Filippi of the University of Aix-Marseille in France and the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics in the Netherlands, who led the study. “We found that, yes, humans recognize higher levels of emotional intensity in species which span across all of these classes.” The listeners were then asked to identify which of the paired recordings from each species represented a sound of distress or “emotional arousal.” The recordings included sounds made by animals when they were relatively relaxed…like this hourglass tree frog >…or in some way excited…say, reacting to an aggressor or competing for a mate, like this hourglass tree frog >. To explore this question, researchers asked 75 volunteers to listen to vocalizations produced by nine different species, from black-capped chickadees to American alligators. Of course, for that to happen, the meanings behind those utterances would have to be clearly understood. Now, if producing those seemingly purposeless noises turned out to be beneficial…by warning others of predators, summoning protection, or enticing a mate…the behavior would persist and, over time, become selected for. When the primeval members of this class were strongly excited and their muscles violently contracted, purposeless sounds would almost certainly have been produced." "All the air-breathing Vertebrata necessarily possess an apparatus for inhaling and expelling air. It was Charles Darwin who first mused about the evolution of emotional expression. The findings are communicated in the Proceedings of the Royal Society B. Because a new study shows that humans are actually good at identifying vocalizations that are emotionally intense…even when those outcries come from other species. What does panic sound like? > Like that, for sure.
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