Table 3 Acoustic parameters.

From: Classification of pig calls produced from birth to slaughter according to their emotional valence and context of production

Abbreviation

Description

Category

Reference

Dur (s)

Duration of the call

Duration

17,18,19,20,21,27,30,39,40,41

AmpVar (dB/s)

Amplitude variation; cumulative variation in amplitude divided by the total call duration

Amplitude modulation

20

AmpModRate (s-1)

Amplitude modulation rate; number of complete cycles of amplitude modulation per second

 

21,28

AmpModExtent (dB)

Amplitude modulation extent; mean peak-to-peak variation of each amplitude modulation

 

21,28

Q25% (Hz)

Frequency value at the upper limit of the first quartiles of energy

Spectrum (energy distribution)

18,20,21,27,28,30,39,40

Q50% (Hz)

Spectral center of gravity; frequency value at the upper limit of the second quartiles of energy

 

17,18,19,20,21,27,28,30,39,40

Q75% (Hz)

Frequency value at the upper limit of the third quartiles of energy

 

18,20,21,27,28,30,39,40

FPeak (Hz)

Frequency of peak amplitude

 

17,18,20,30,39,41

Harmonicity

Degree of acoustic periodicity, also called harmonic-to-noise ratio—higher values indicate more tonal calls

Tonality/noise

18,19,20,21,28,30,39,40

WienEntropy

Wiener entropy; spectral flatness of a sound, calculated as the ratio of a power spectrum's geometric mean to its arithmetic mean measured on a logarithmic scale—higher values indicate more noisy calls

 

17,18,27,39,41

  1. Abbreviation and description of the analyzed acoustic parameters, along with the category they were allocated to, which was used to select the best parameters to include in our analyses, as well as examples of references to other studies where these parameters were measured in relation to emotions in pig and wild boars.