... Multimodal communication Birdsong Developmental learning Taeniopygia guttata Institut Universitaire de France http://dx.doi.org/10.13039/501100004795 European Research Council http://dx.doi.org/10.13039/100010663 323674 Université Paris Nanterre Chair...

...: Comparison of three components of frog calls (sound, vocal sac size and ripples) showed that integrating across these modalities improved the estimate of the frog's body size. Acoustics Foraging Mate choice Multimodal communication Sexual selection Animals communicate with signals across...

... a substantial cost of multimodal communication, namely increased predation pressure on sexually displaying frogs by the fringe-lipped bat. When given a choice, all bats preferred to attack a model with a vocal sac that was dynamically inflated and deflated in synchrony with acoustic call production...

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... ) 16 4 2008 © The Company of Biologists Limited 2008 2008 multimodal communication audiovisual displays redundancy tidbitting Multimodal communication is exhibited by a wide array of animals. Primates( McGurk and MacDonald, 1976 ),birds ( Partan et al., 2005 ),frogs ( Narins et...