Goat Bleatings

Abstract

This dataset, composed of 4147 sounds, contains bleatings that have been spontaneously emitted by goats in different farming contexts. Each sound file is in WAV format and is 2 seconds long.

Vocalizations were collected in four goat farms belonging to the European innovation partnership called VOCAPRA, in the frame of the EIP-AGRI project “Multidisciplinary approach for setting up a continuous monitoring system in dairy goat farms by means of animal vocalisations”), financed within the operation 16.1.01 “Cooperation” of the Rural Development Programme 2014 - 2020 of Lombardy Region. For further information about the VOCAPRA project, please refer to the project website (https://vocapra.lim.di.unimi.it/).

The dataset is a selection of vocalizations recorded continuously during a whole year, classed into the following contexts of emission:

heat

feed distribution

parturition

injury or death

social isolation

mother-kid reunion

mother-kid separation

presence of unknown visitors

The ZIP archive contains two directories, "testing" and "training", and each directory is structured in subdirectories that contain files referrable to a given emission context.

Terms of use

The dataset is open access for scientific research and non-commercial purposes.

The authors require to acknowledge their work and, in the case of scientific publication, cite the following paper:

Ntalampiras, S., Ludovico, L.A., Presti, G., Celozzi, S., Battini, M., Mattiello, S.: An Integrated System for the Acoustic Monitoring of Goat Farms. Ecological Informatics, vol. 75, 102043. Elsevier (2023).
ISSN: 1574-9541