Field crickets are best known for the loud calling songs produced by males to attract
conspecific females. This review aims to summarize the current knowledge of the …

Across the animal kingdom, social interactions rely on sound production and perception.
From simple cricket chirps to more elaborate bird songs, animals go to great lengths to …

From human language to birdsong and the chirps of insects, acoustic communication is
based on amplitude and frequency modulation of sound signals. Whereas frequency …

Males and females often produce distinct responses to the same sensory stimuli. How such
differences arise—at the level of sensory processing or in the circuits that generate behavior …

The temporal organization of sounds used in social contexts can provide information about
signal function and evoke varying responses in listeners (receivers). For example, music is a …

This review addresses the history of neuroethological studies on acoustic communication in
insects. One objective is to reveal how basic ethological concepts developed in the 1930s …

Intraspecific acoustic communication requires filtering processes and feature detectors in the
auditory pathway of the receiver for the recognition of species-specific signals. Insects like …

For the purpose of orientation, echolocating bats emit highly repetitive and spatially directed
sonar calls. Echoes arising from call reflections are used to create an acoustic image of the …

Categorizing the bioacoustic and ecoacoustic properties of animals is great interest to
biologists and ecologists. Also, multidisciplinary studies in engineering have significantly …

Highlights•How do animals recognize complex signals from conspecifics?•We tested how
females of field cricket sister species evaluate male song.•The species used a mix of shared …