[PDF][PDF] A review of social recognition in pinnipeds

S Insley, AV Phillips, I Charrier - Aquatic Mammals, 2003 - academia.edu
A substantial amount of research has been carried out on recognition behaviour in natural
populations of pinnipeds. This work includes detailed anecdotal and quantitative …

Designing mate choice experiments

LR Dougherty - Biological Reviews, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
The important role that mate choice plays in the lives of animals is matched by the large and
active research field dedicated to studying it. Researchers work on a wide range of species …

[图书][B] Nature's music: the science of birdsong

PR Marler, H Slabbekoorn - 2004 - books.google.com
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 …

Vocal performance influences female response to male bird song: an experimental test

B Ballentine, J Hyman, S Nowicki - Behavioral Ecology, 2004 - academic.oup.com
Female songbirds are thought to assess males based on aspects of song, such as repertoire
size or amount of singing, that could potentially provide information about male quality. A …

Conceptual semantics in a nonhuman primate.

K Zuberbühler, DL Cheney… - Journal of Comparative …, 1999 - psycnet.apa.org
Some animal vocalizations have been described as referential, or semantic, because
individuals respond to them as if they designate some object or event. Alternatively, subjects …

Directional female preference for an exaggerated male trait in canary (Serinus canaria) song

TI Drăgănoiu, L Nagle… - Proceedings of the …, 2002 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Motor constraints on vocal production impose a trade–off between trill rate and frequency
bandwidth within birdsong. We tested whether domesticated canary (Serinus canaria) …

Quality of song learning affects female response to male bird song

S Nowicki, WA Searcy, S Peters - Proceedings of the …, 2002 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Bird song is unusual as a sexually selected trait because its expression depends on
learning as well as genetic and other environmental factors. Prior work has demonstrated …

Pseudoreplication is a pseudoproblem.

JC Schank, TJ Koehnle - Journal of comparative psychology, 2009 - psycnet.apa.org
Pseudoreplication is one of the most influential methodological issues in ecological and
animal behavior research today. At its inception, the idea of pseudoreplication highlighted …

Birdsong and sound transmission: the benefits of reverberations

H Slabbekoorn, J Ellers, TB Smith - The Condor, 2002 - academic.oup.com
Animal vocalizations used for long-distance communication are shaped by acoustic
properties of the environment. Studies of the relationship between signal design and sound …

The effect of anthropogenic noise on male advertisement call rate in the neotropical treefrog, Dendropsophus triangulum

K Kaiser, JL Hammers - Behaviour, 2009 - JSTOR
Anthropogenic change such as road construction and subsequent traffic noise in pristine
habitats has been shown to be detrimental to a range of vertebrate taxa. The effect of …