Mate choice decisions are central in sexual selection theory aimed to understand how
sexual traits evolve and their role in evolutionary diversification. We test the hypothesis that …

As an increasing number of researchers investigate the cognitive abilities of an ever‐wider
range of animals, animal cognition is currently among the most exciting fields within animal …

Investigations on bird vocalizations have largely focused on males. Female vocalizations
are widespread in birds but few studies have investigated female vocal characteristics …

Anesthesia is known to affect the auditory brainstem response (ABR) in mice, rats, birds and
lizards. The present study investigated how the level of anesthesia affects ABR recordings in …

Background: Contemporary bioacoustics is an interdisciplinary science by combining
biology and ecology with acoustics. Through the mutual penetration and integration of …

Artificial light at night (ALAN) is a widespread anthropogenic stimulus that can significantly
alter nocturnal animals' behavior, from migration to foraging to vocal communication. In the …

Background The evolution of exaggerated vocal signals in anuran species is an important
topic. Males and females have both evolved the ability to discriminate communication …

According to Weber's law of proportional processing, perceptual discrimination between
stimuli of different magnitudes is based on their proportional differences in magnitude (not …

Elucidating the factors that influence the evolution of signal complexity is essential in
understanding animal communication. Compared to vocal and color signals, movement …

Mate choice in frogs depends heavily on acoustic communication, and females in many
species possess an inherent preference for longer and/or more complex calls. Recently, it …