Abstract: Vocalization is an important part of animal communication,which can reflect the behavior information of animals in various states. It is very important to collect the sound of livestock and poultry and reflect the state and behavior characteristics of livestock and poultry accurately to realize the monitoring and research of livestock and poultry behavior information. In this paper, the phonation characteristics of different behaviors of livestock and poultry are summarized, and the phonation characteristics extraction and recognition of livestock and poultry are summarized.