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... of Biologists Ltd 2022 Summary: Plant vibrations excited by frog calls prove highly important to the function of those calls. Sexual selection Animal communication Multimodal Substrate vibration Biotremology Anura Smithsonian Institution http://dx.doi.org/10.13039/100000014...

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... selection Colour signal Animal communication Animal colouration is not as fixed as is often assumed. Indeed, many animals change colour during their development ( Booth, 1990 ) and/or in response to environmental variation, including season ( Küderling et al., 1984 ), food availability ( Hill et...

... and the possibility of linguistic parameters in animal communication. It suggests the presence of song-like syntax in the social vocalizations emitted within a non-breeding context in a bat species. * Author for correspondence ( [email protected] ) Competing interests The authors declare no competing...

... that chemical cues relevant to reproductive behaviour in a songbird, the dark-eyed junco, are produced by bacteria associated with uropygial gland secretions. Microbiome Symbiosis Animal communication Chemical signalling Fermentation hypothesis Avian Animals are inhabited by microbial...

... for understanding the potential impact of anthropogenic noise on terrestrial invertebrates. Noise pollution Near-field sound Far-field sound Substrate-borne sound Biotremology Animal communication Masking Plasticity Constraints Behavior Anthropogenic acoustic noise (see Glossary) is widely...

... with informational needs. Because sender and receiver are the same individual in bat echolocation systems, there is rapid and tight coordination between call production and echo processing. It follows that the level of coordination between sender and receiver in other animal communication systems should impact both...

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...: Differences in the sensory system that mediates electric communication correlate with differences in social behavior between two sympatric species of African mormyrid fishes. Electroreception Animal communication Sensory processing Sensory ecology Brain evolution Social behavior...

... in juveniles and signal production throughout ontogeny, reinforcing the notion that environmental light has the capacity to influence animal communication, and suggesting that the characteristics of environmental light should be considered in models of ecological speciation. * These authors contributed...

...Sat Gavassa; Anna Goldina; Ana C. Silva; Philip K. Stoddard; Rüdiger Krahe; Eric Fortune Summary The balance between the costs and benefits of conspicuous animal communication signals ensures that signal expression relates to the quality of the bearer. Signal plasticity enables males to enhance...

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... structures outside of the breeding season could conserve metabolic costs [for discussion of sensory costs, see Niven and Laughlin (Niven and Laughlin, 2008)]. However, seasonal variation in auditory performance remains relatively unexplored. animal communication auditory brainstem response (ABR...

... thresholds of these species were used to estimate idealized propagation distances of sciaenid vocalizations in coastal and estuarine environments. * Author for correspondence (e-mail: [email protected] ) 5 3 2008 © The Company of Biologists Limited 2008 2008 animal communication...

... 92037-0116, USA. 21 10 1996 © The Company of Biologists Limited 1997 active space animal communication bioacoustics calling area calling range infrasound elephants Many animal species use long-range calls to establish their use of space and their relationships...