Animal acoustic communication often takes the form of complex sequences, made up of
multiple distinct acoustic units. Apart from the well‐known example of birdsong, other …

The most commonly heard vocalizations of frogs are advertisement calls, which attract
gravid females and mediate aggressive interactions between males. Frog vocalizations are …

Sex is as fascinating to scientists as it is to the rest of us. A vast pool of knowledge, therefore,
has been gleaned from research into the nature of sex, from the contentious problem of why …

The function of bird song is closely linked to sexual selection. A fundamental question
regarding the evolution of sexually selected male signals is how their honesty is maintained …

Animal communication studies often use analogies to human language and related
constructs such as information encoding and transfer. This commonality is evident even …

Oxytocin-and vasopressin-related systems are present in invertebrate and vertebrate
bilaterian animals, including humans, and exhibit conserved neuroanatomical and …

We investigated patterns of mating call preference and mating call recognition by examining
phonotaxis of female túngara frogs, Physalaemus pustulosus, in response to conspecific …

SUMMARY (i) To find out whether a mating preference could have initially evolved for
adaptive reasons, one must determine whether the preferred trait could have provided …

Our view of the evolution of sexually selected traits and preferences was influenced radically
in the 1990s by studies that emphasized how signals interact with sensory properties of …

This book will be a landmark text for all those interested in animal communication. Animal
Vocal Communication explicitly avoids human-centred concepts and approaches and links …