A5115684506- Animal Vocal Communication and Behavior
- Bat Biology and Ecology Studies
- Veterinary Equine Medical Research
- Animal Behavior and Reproduction
- Robotic Locomotion and Control
- Mechanics and Biomechanics Studies
Sapienza University of Rome
2024-2025
University of Turin
2024-2025
Health First
2024
Abstract Anecdotally, horses' gaits sound rhythmic. Are they really? In this study, we quantified the motor rhythmicity of horses across three different (walk, trot, and canter). For first time, adopted quantitative tools from bioacoustics music cognition to quantify locomotor rhythmicity. Specifically, tested whether kinematics data contained rhythmic categories; these occur when adjacent temporal intervals are categorically, rather than randomly, distributed. We extracted motion cycle...
Abstract What makes animal gaits so audibly rhythmic? To answer this question, we recorded the footfall sound of 19 horses and quantified rhythmic differences in temporal structure three natural gaits: walk, trot, canter. Our analyses show that each gait displays a strikingly specific pattern all are organized according to small‐integer ratios, those found when adjacent intervals related by mathematically simple relationship integer numbers. Walk trot exhibit an isochronous (1:1)—similar...