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M$1 February 04, 2009 05:03 AM

Are there any animals that make sounds (like singing lullabies) to soothe their offspring?

Obviously humans sing songs to their children. Are there any other animal that make sounds for the benefit of their children?
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February 04, 2009 05:21 AM
This is a tough one, but Yes, I found that the Striped Hyena (found in asia) use their whooping sounds to soothe their young as well as in combat. It should be noted that the Striped Hyena is ironically the least vocal of all of the family hyaenidae.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Striped_Hyena
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February 04, 2009 05:19 AM
While you will not find animals that actually sing to their young to soothe them, as most animals do not feel emotion(only prime mates show some signs). Though many animals call to their young as a signal to do something - or to find them.

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February 04, 2009 05:36 AM
Are you aware that you yourself are one of the prime mates?

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February 04, 2009 10:23 AM - Fact Refuted
Virtually all animals feel emotion, certainly mammals, birds, and reptiles. This is because the parts of the brain which create emotions are very old. The structure and chemistry has remained the same through the course of vertebrate evolution. Probably because it works so well to guide behavior.

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February 04, 2009 06:34 AM
If you consider humans to be animals, then of course.

Dolphins and whales also sing songs to imprint on their babies so the babies always know who their mom is. That could be considered a lullaby.
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February 04, 2009 06:44 AM
Mother birds do indeed sing to their young and nearly every species seems to have some way of communicating with their young. A cat's purring or a dog mother's soft whining or moaning is comforting to their newborn. Female rhesus monkeys attract other mothers' newborns with a form of "baby talk" that serves a similar function to the high-pitched babbling sounds humans make around babies.
Alligators and elephants make rumbling (vibrating) sounds for everything from sending warning signals, to calming youngsters, to mating calls...! Some non-human primates, such as rhesus macaques and squirrel monkeys, make unusual sounds, particularly grunts and nasal whines known as "girneys", in the presence of their infants.

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http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/sites/entrez?cmd=Retrieve&db;=PubMed&list;_uids=2792572&dopt;=AbstractPlus


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February 04, 2009 07:03 AM
Your evidence link doesn't seem to pull up anything specific. Is there something that you searched for on NCBI to find this info?

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February 04, 2009 07:44 AM
The evidence link is to a report that u need to purchase, in order to read it....
I got the link from another article which cited the evidence contained in the report as a scientific proof of this fact!
Lemme see if I can get my hands on that article again....

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February 05, 2009 08:54 PM
Have you been able to find that article? It would be nice to find a subject matter expert that I can talk to. Based on this article, which was 20 years old, I can't track down the authors.

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