... communication Audio-vocal integration Echolocation Environmental noise Signal plasticity Auditory feedback is widely used among birds and mammals for fine-tuning the spectro-temporal features and to guide the adjustments of the loudness of their vocalizations (Lombard, 1911 ; Brumm and Zollinger...

... areas for such `passive listening'bats. * Author for correspondence (e-mail: [email protected]) 14 8 2008 © The Company of Biologists Limited 2008 2008 environmental noise anthropogenic noise traffic noise foraging road ecology Myotis myotis gleaning bats passive...

...Henrik Brumm; Katrin Voss; Ireen Köllmer; Dietmar Todt SUMMARY This study on common marmosets Callithrix jacchus is the first to examine noise-dependent mechanisms of vocal plasticity in a New World monkey. Since acoustic communication can be considerably impaired by environmental noise, some...