Bioacoustics of Canis familiaris

In words

How the sound has been written down. A rendering is of the sound and not a name for the taxon, which is what a vernacular name is.

• bark onomatopoeia verb enrecord at source
• yelp onomatopoeia verb en juvenilerecord at source
• bow-wow imitation en-GBrecord at source
• arf-arf imitation en-USrecord at source
• gnaf-gnaf imitation frrecord at source
• how-how imitation arrecord at source
• gaû-gaû imitation virecord at source
• won-won imitation jarecord at source
• kwee-kwee imitationrecord at source

Recordings

373 in audioBlast.

iNat54723936 Western Domestic Dog (Canis familiaris familiaris)

kltsv 2019-02-01 iNaturalist listen › record

iNat56412664 Western Domestic Dog (Canis familiaris familiaris)

Ivlev-Konstantin-Sergeevith 2020-07-31 iNaturalist listen › record

iNat136063462 Western Domestic Dog (Canis familiaris familiaris)

Марина Горбунова-Ëлкина 2022-08-03 iNaturalist listen › record

iNat163158614 Western Domestic Dog (Canis familiaris familiaris)

faluke 2023-05-19 iNaturalist listen › record

iNat174815317 Western Domestic Dog (Canis familiaris familiaris)

歐陽秀華 2023-07-25 iNaturalist listen › record

iNat292565700 Western Domestic Dog (Canis familiaris familiaris)

Degtyarev Nikolai Ivanovich 2025-06-23 iNaturalist listen › record

iNat380090448 Western Domestic Dog (Canis familiaris familiaris)

lanilen 2026-07-10 iNaturalist listen › record

iNat41100567 Western Domestic Dog (Canis familiaris familiaris)

Santiago Vieto Rodríguez 2020-03-31 iNaturalist listen › record

iNat266226854 Western Domestic Dog (Canis familiaris familiaris)

Diptarko Bandyopadhyaya 2025-03-21 iNaturalist listen › record

iNat287857045 Western Domestic Dog (Canis familiaris familiaris)

Diptarko Bandyopadhyaya 2025-06-08 iNaturalist listen › record

iNat287857045 Western Domestic Dog (Canis familiaris familiaris)

Diptarko Bandyopadhyaya 2025-06-08 iNaturalist listen › record

iNat392688363 Western Domestic Dog (Canis familiaris familiaris)

PoloNes 2026-06-14 iNaturalist listen › record

361 more in the audioBlast browser.

Annotations

Regions of a recording marked as this taxon, by a person or by an algorithm.

Recording	Source	From	To	Type	Annotator	Record
1178872	xeno-canto	5.1151	5.3706	—	Max Noack	view
1178872	xeno-canto	7.0602	7.3911	—	Max Noack	view

Browse

Counts are recordings at or below each taxon, so an empty branch shows as empty before you click it. A dash means the join view holds no column for that rank and cannot roll up to it.

References

Publications audioBlast links to this taxon.

• Parsons, Christine E.; LeBeau, Richard T.; Kringelbach, Morten L.; Young, Katherine S. (2019) Pawsitively sad: pet-owners are more sensitive to negative emotion in animal distress vocalizations
  Royal Society Open Science, 6, 181555
  doi:10.1098/rsos.181555
• Pongrácz, Péter; Gómez, Sara Alvarez; Lenkei, Rita (2019) Separation-related behaviour indicates the effect of functional breed selection in dogs (Canis familiaris)
  doi:10.1016/j.applanim.2019.104884
• Rameau, Anaïs; Andreadis, Katerina; Ganesan, Vinayak; Lachs, Mark S; Rosen, Tony; Wang, Fei; Maddox, Alexandra; Klinck, Holger; Khosla, Sid M.; de Luzan, Charles Farbos; Madhusudhana, Shyam (2022) Acoustic Screening of the “Wet voice”: Proof of Concept in an ex vivo Canine Laryngeal Model
  The Laryngoscope
  doi:10.1002/lary.30525

Sources

The rows audioBlast holds for this taxon, each matched to the same Catalogue of Life node. Where a source classifies it differently, its own classification is kept.

Source	Its name	Its rank	Its family	Record
BAbio.acousti.ca	Canis lupus familiaris	Subspecies	Canidae	bio.acousti.ca/6814
TSATSA	Canis lupus familiaris	Subspecies	—	TSA/Canis lupus familiaris
xeno-canto	Canis familiaris	Species	—	xeno-canto/Canis familiaris
iNaturalist	Canis familiaris	Species	Canidae	iNaturalist/47144

Machine-readable

Bioschemas is in the head of this page. The Darwin Core RDF lives at the API address below, which negotiates JSON-LD and Turtle.

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