... Electrophysiology Plasticity Songbird Species recognition National Institutes of Health R01NS082179 University of Massachusetts Amherst http://dx.doi.org/10.13039/100008975 Our study provides evidence that songbirds are sensitive to species song categories prior to the sensitive...

... have between 0 and 3 white bars present, which has been suggested to be important for species recognition. In the present study, we found that Amphiprion ocellaris (a species that displays three white bars) hatched and reared in aquaria, when faced with an intruder fish, attacked their own species more...

... for the encoding of social signals versus preferences for those signals. Torus semicircularis Mating preferences Preoptic area Norepinephrine Species recognition Social preferences enable animals to selectively interact with some individuals over others and such preferences underpin a range...

... in the plains spadefoot toad ( Spea bombifrons ), a species in which diet affects the developmental emergence of species recognition and body condition affects the expression of adult mating preferences. To do so, we manipulated the diet of juveniles for 6 weeks following metamorphosis and collected...

... the cowbird chatter: a non-learned vocal cue. We explored the neural basis of such password-based species recognition in juvenile and adult male cowbirds. We found that cowbird auditory forebrain regions express greater densities of the protein product of the immediate-early gene ZENK in response...

..., despite both being highly attracted to specimens of other Agrilus species ( Domingue et al., 2011 ). Thus, avoidance of shorter wavelength spectral emissions and preference for longer wavelengths by A. angustulus may promote species recognition and help to avoid landing events upon A. sulcicollis...

...V. Fugère; R. Krahe SUMMARY Gymnotiformes are South American weakly electric fish that produce weak electric organ discharges (EOD) for orientation, foraging and communication purposes. It has been shown that EOD properties vary widely across species and could thus be used as species recognition...

[email protected] ) 12 5 2008 © The Company of Biologists Limited 2008 2008 vocal communication species recognition Australian sea lion Neophoca cinerea Recognition allows animals to distinguish others and may operate at a number of levels. Recognition has been demonstrated between...

... complexity in ant hydrocarbon recognition cues, we studied the species recognition response of two ant species, Linepithema humile and Aphaenogaster cockerelli , and the recognition of conspecifics by L. humile . The cuticular hydrocarbons of ants are composed of molecules of varying chain lengths from three...

... and live in the same habitat ( Jones et al.,1995 ). A comparative study will reveal whether specific movements or morphological characteristics serve as species-recognition cues. Our results will also allow exploration of the role of experience in the development of species recognition in megapodes...