Sound analysis hints sirens have an evolutionary link with wolf howls

By Douglas Heingartner

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There’s an uncanny similarity between wolf howls and emergency sirens. The sound of a siren would be effective because we developed to be alerted by howls, imply researchers.

Hynek Burda on the Czech University of Existence Sciences and his colleagues when compared a lot of dozen recordings of wolf howls with the sounds made by diversified emergency sirens, similar to these on ambulances and in twister-warning systems. Their diagnosis regarded on the largest acoustic parts of these sounds – as an instance their initial and closing frequencies or how …