Species directory
Acoustic range, meaningful body-language channels, plausible behaviours and — importantly — an honest note about what a recording device can actually capture.
Canis lupus familiaris
The most studied companion species in behavioural science, and the one where audio, posture and context most reliably combine into an interpretable signal.
Felis catus
Highly individual vocal repertoires make cats the clearest demonstration of why a per-animal baseline matters more than a species-level average.
Equus ferus caballus
A prey species whose most informative channels are postural and facial rather than vocal, and where separation is the dominant driver of calling.
Psittacus erithacus
A vocal-learning species where mimicry must be separated from species-typical calls before any interpretation is attempted.
Bos taurus
A welfare-monitoring species where the value is longitudinal: deviation from an individual or herd baseline matters more than any single call.
Loxodonta africana
Long-distance infrasonic coordination makes elephants the clearest case for treating context and group movement as first-class signals rather than audio alone.
Panthera leo
Territorial broadcast calling and coordinated pride behaviour, where the interesting signal is usually the group response rather than the call.
Macaca mulatta
Dense social signalling with rapid facial expressions, where the value is in the interaction structure rather than any single call.
Pan troglodytes
Structured, multi-phase calls layered over rapid gestural communication — the species where temporal sequence carries the most meaning.
Gorilla gorilla gorilla
Quiet, close-range communication punctuated by rare high-intensity displays — a species where absence of vocalisation is itself informative.
Tursiops truncatus
The clearest illustration of honest capture limits: without a hydrophone the primary communication channel is simply not observed, and the product says so.
Canis lupus
Long-range territorial chorus calling where the group structure of the signal matters far more than any individual howl.
A species is data, not code: a taxonomy entry, an acoustic profile, a list of meaningful body-language channels, the behaviours it can and cannot produce, its safety guidance and its honest limitations. Adding one requires no change to the analysis pipeline. What it does require is someone who knows the species well enough to write those limitations honestly.
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