Comparative bioacoustics: a roadmap for quantifying and comparing animal sounds across diverse taxa

KJ Odom, M Araya‐Salas, JL Morano… - Biological …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Animals produce a wide array of sounds with highly variable acoustic structures. It is
possible to understand the causes and consequences of this variation across taxa with …

Species diversity and interspecific information flow

E Goodale, RD Magrath - Biological Reviews, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Interspecific information flow is known to affect individual fitness, population dynamics and
community assembly, but there has been less study of how species diversity affects …

Mobbing in animals: A thorough review and proposed future directions

NV Carlson, M Griesser - Advances in the Study of Behavior, 2022 - Elsevier
Mobbing is an important anti-predator behavior where prey harass and attack a predator to
lower the immediate and long-term risk posed by it, warn others, and communicate about the …

Isochrony as ancestral condition to call and song in a primate

C De Gregorio, M Maiolini, T Raimondi… - Annals of the New …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Animal songs differ from calls in function and structure, and have comparative and
translational value, showing similarities to human music. Rhythm in music is often distributed …

On the sparrowhawk-like calls of female common cuckoos: testing for heterospecific vocal mimicry in a conspecific functional context

C Moskát, ME Hauber - Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology, 2023 - Springer
Mimicry is a widespread phenomenon whereby predatory or parasitic individuals can
access unsuspecting prey or hosts for the former's benefit. For example, brood parasitic …

Higher-order sequences of vocal mimicry performed by male Albert's lyrebirds are socially transmitted and enhance acoustic contrast

F Backhouse, AH Dalziell… - Proceedings of the …, 2022 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Most studies of acoustic communication focus on short units of vocalization such as songs,
yet these units are often hierarchically organized into higher-order sequences and, outside …

Male superb lyrebirds mimic functionally distinct heterospecific vocalizations during different modes of sexual display

AH Dalziell, JA Welbergen, RD Magrath - Animal Behaviour, 2022 - Elsevier
Mimicry has long been a focus of research, but little is known about how and why many
species of bird incorporate imitations of heterospecific sounds into their vocal displays …

Learning mimetic cuckoo call innovations from neighbors in a Chinese songbird

C Fu, X Wang, F Backhouse, Z Li - Scientific Reports, 2024 - nature.com
Some oscine passerines incorporate heterospecific sounds into their repertoires, including
vocalizations of other bird species, sounds of other fauna, and even anthropogenic sounds …

Sensory trap leads to reliable communication without a shift in nonsexual responses to the model cue

SD Fissette, TJ Buchinger, S Tamrakar… - Behavioral …, 2024 - academic.oup.com
The sensory trap model of signal evolution suggests that males manipulate females into
mating using traits that mimic cues used in a nonsexual context. Despite much empirical …

Selective alarm call mimicry in the sexual display of the male superb lyrebird (Menura novaehollandiae)

TL Crisologo, SA Dzielski, JR Purcell, MS Webster… - Evolutionary …, 2023 - Springer
Despite much research on mimicry, little is known about the ecology of dynamic mimetic
signals involving mimicry of multiple species. Some of the most conspicuous examples of …