... calling behaviour and playback experiments, we investigated acoustic synchrony and the mechanisms underlying it in the katydid Mecopoda sp. ‘Two-part caller’. This katydid has a complex call consisting of a long trill followed by two or more chirps. We found that individual males synchronized trills...

... in arthropods . In Flow Sensing in Air and Water (ed. H.   Bleckmann , J.   Mogdams and S.   Coombs ), pp. 169 - 196 . Berlin : Springer . Beranek , L. L. ( 1954 ). Acoustics . New York, NY : McGraw-Hill Book Company . Bushbeck , E. K. and Strausfeld , N. J. ( 1997...

... evidence for the mechanics of elytro-tergal stridulation, and provide insight into how an insect can incorporate variability into its acoustic repertoire using a spring-loaded mechanism. * Author for correspondence ( [email protected] ) Competing interests The authors declare...

...Conrado A. Rosi-Denadai; Melanie L. Scallion; Craig G. Merrett; Jayne E. Yack ABSTRACT Insects have evolved a great diversity of sound-producing mechanisms largely attributable to their hardened exoskeleton, which can be rubbed, vibrated or tapped against different substrates to produce acoustic...

...Eric Parmentier; Maud Petrinisec; Paulo J. Fonseca; Maria Clara P. Amorim ABSTRACT Fish acoustic signals play a major role during agonistic and reproductive interactions. Among the sound-generating fish, Gobiidae, a large fish family with 1866 valid species, is one of the most studied groups...

... recoil of the swimbladder wall. Acoustic Communication Swimbladder Agence Nationale de la Recherche 10.13039/501100001665 Fonds De La Recherche Scientifique - FNRS 10.13039/501100002661 In the field of fish acoustic communication, triggerfishes (Balistidae...

...Timothy C. Tricas; Kelly S. Boyle ABSTRACT Fish produce context-specific sounds during social communication, but it is not known how acoustic behaviors have evolved in relation to specializations of the auditory system. Butterflyfishes (family Chaetodontidae) have a well-defined phylogeny...

... system differs from other Chaetodontidae in terms of sound characteristics, associated body movements and, consequently, mechanism. * Author for correspondence ( [email protected] ) 12 5 2011 © 2011. 2011 acoustic electromyography sonic muscle swimbladder...

...Eric Parmentier; Kenneth Mann; David Mann SUMMARY The air-filled swimbladder acts as an acoustic amplifier for some fish by converting sound pressure into particle motion, which is transmitted to the inner ear. Here, we describe in detail the specialized connection between the swimbladder and ear...

.../relaxation of the ventral muscle to form each pulse. * Author for correspondence ( [email protected] ) 18 5 2010 © 2010. 2010 acoustic Ophidiiforme rocker bone sonic muscles swim bladder Classically, swimbladder sound production in many fish is evoked as a forced...

...Sarah L. Bush; Oliver M. Beckers; Johannes Schul SUMMARY Acoustic pattern recognition is important for bringing together males and females in many insect species. We used phonotaxis experiments on a walking compensator to study call recognition in the katydid Neoconocephalus affinis , a species...

.... We exposed the ears of five noctuoid moth species to the pre-recorded echolocation calls of an attacking bat ( Eptesicus fuscus ) to observe the acoustic encoding of the receptors at this critical time in their defensive behaviour. The B cell is a non-tympanal receptor common to all moths that has...

...Bruce A. Young; Amie Aguiar SUMMARY In order to test the hypothesis that snakes can not only perceive airborne sounds, but also respond to them, an acoustic isolation chamber was designed and constructed to perform best within the 150-450 Hz range in which snakes perceive sound. Suspended within...