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Article Dans Une Revue Scientific Reports Année : 2020

Piglets vocally express the anticipation of pseudo-social contexts in their grunts

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Emotions not only arise in reaction to an event but also while anticipating it, making this context a means of accessing the emotional value of events. Before now, anticipatory studies have rarely considered whether vocalisations carry information about emotional states. We studied both the grunts of piglets and their spatial behaviour as they anticipated two (pseudo)social events known to elicit positive emotions of different intensity: arrival of familiar conspecifics and arrival of a familiar human. Piglets spatially anticipated both pseudo-social contexts, and the spectro temporal features of grunts differed according to the emotional context. Piglets produced low-frequency grunts at a higher rate when anticipating conspecifics compared to anticipating a human. Spectral noise increased when piglets expected conspecifics, whereas the duration and frequency range increased when expecting a human. When the arrival of conspecifics was delayed, the grunt duration increased, whereas when the arrival of the human was delayed, the spectral parameters were comparable to those during isolation. This shows that vocal expressions in piglets during anticipation are specific to the expected reward. Vocal expressions—both their temporal and spectral features- are thus a good way to explore the emotional state of piglets during the anticipation of challenging events.
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hal-03025185 , version 1 (26-11-2020)

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Avelyne S Villain, Azélie Hazard, Margot Danglot, Carole Guérin, Alain Boissy, et al.. Piglets vocally express the anticipation of pseudo-social contexts in their grunts. Scientific Reports, 2020, 10 (1), pp.18496. ⟨10.1038/s41598-020-75378-x⟩. ⟨hal-03025185⟩
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