Variation in communicative complexity has been conceptually and empirically attributed to
social complexity, with animals living in more complex social environments exhibiting more …

Social living goes hand in hand with communication, but the details of this relationship are
rarely simple. Complex communication may be described by attributes as diverse as a …

Social factors play a key role in the structuring of vocal repertoires at the individual level,
notably in non-human primates. Some authors suggested that, at the species level too …

Complex societies are suggested to generate complex communication. However, tests of
this hypothesis rarely go beyond a superficial examination of social and communicative …

Many gregarious species require complex patterns of communication for maintaining
coordinated behaviors, articulated social structure and group cohesion. In mammal species …

The endemic lemurs of Madagascar (Lemuriformes: Primates) exhibit great social and
communicative diversity. Given their independent evolutionary history, lemurs provide an …

Twenty years ago, Dominy and colleagues published “The sensory ecology of primate food
perception,” an impactful review that brought new perspectives to understanding primate …

Although signal characteristics and sensory systems are predicted to co-evolve according to
environmental constraints, this hypothesis has not been tested for acoustic signalling across …

Previous studies of the vocalization frequencies of mammals have suggested that it is either
body mass or environment that drives these frequencies. Using 193 species across the …

Few mammals—cetaceans, domestic cats and select bats and rodents—can send and
receive vocal signals contained within the ultrasonic domain, or pure ultrasound (greater …