Acoustic communication and sound degradation: how do the individual signatures of male and female zebra finch calls transmit over distance?

BACKGROUND:Assessing the active space of the various types of information encoded by songbirds' vocalizations is important to address questions related to species ecology (e.g. spacing of individuals), as well as social behavior (e.g. territorial and/or mating strategies). Up to now, most of th...

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Main Authors: Solveig C Mouterde, Frédéric E Theunissen, Julie E Elie, Clémentine Vignal, Nicolas Mathevon
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2014-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC4111290?pdf=render