The 'social complexity hypothesis' for communication posits that groups with complex social
systems require more complex communicative systems to regulate interactions and relations …

Vocal learning, the substrate for human language, is a rare trait found to date in only three
distantly related groups of mammals (humans, bats, and cetaceans) and three distantly …

The voices of birds have always been a source of fascination. Nature's Music brings together
some of the world's experts on birdsong, to review the advances that have taken place in our …

In recent years, avian systematics has been characterized by a diminished reliance on
morphological cladistics of modern taxa, intensive palaeornithogical research stimulated by …

The acoustic properties of the environment influence sound propagation. Many previous
studies examined whether various species of anurans, birds and mammals adjust usage …

Systematics and Taxonomy of Australian Birds presents an up-to-date classification of
Australian birds. Building on the authors 1994 book, The Taxonomy and Species of Birds of …

Bioacoustics has become widely used in the study of acoustically active animals, and
machine learning algorithms have emerged as efficient and effective strategies to identify …

Visual signals are shaped by variation in the signaling environment through a process
termed sensory drive, sometimes leading to speciation. However, the evidence for sensory …

Environmental differences influence the evolutionary divergence of mating signals through
selection acting either directly on signal transmission (“sensory drive”) or because …

Yost's (2000) Fundamentals of Hearing provide a concise presentation of the principles of
acoustics for airborne sounds. Jensen et al.'s (1994) Computational Ocean Acoustics offers …