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What animals can be individually identified through their vocalisations? And to what extent?

I see two aspects animals emit signature call (as do bottlenose dolphins) then you can easily identify them by the call. … This may also be the case for the wolf playback experiment in the OP. animals generate sound with a apparatus that can show individual anatomic differences so that humans can recognize a difference in …
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What is the best way to determine the function and context of animal calls?

The best way is to correlate the sound with visually observed behaviour. Obviously number of observation must be such that cause and effect can be deduced and not only correlation. For me an example c …
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