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Darwin’s finches in human-altered environments sing common song types and are more aggressive
Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 2023 Human-altered landscapes may act as an environmental filter benefiting species or individuals with specific sets of capacities or behaviors. Yet the effects of human activity on culturally transmitted traits in animals are still poorly understood ...
Diane Colombelli-Négrel +4 more
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The Pastoral Origin of Semiotically Functional Tonal Organization of Music
Frontiers in Psychology, 2020 This paper presents a new line of inquiry into when and how music as a semiotic system was born. Eleven principal expressive aspects of music each contains specific structural patterns whose configuration signifies a certain affective state.
Aleksey Nikolsky
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Robust rhythm reporting will advance ecological and evolutionary research
Methods in Ecology and Evolution, 2023 Rhythmicity in the millisecond to second range is a fundamental building block of communication and coordinated movement. But how widespread are rhythmic capacities across species, and how did they evolve under different environmental pressures ...
Taylor A. Hersh +2 more
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Frontiers in Psychology, 2021 In 1980, Robert Seyfarth, Dorothy Cheney and Peter Marler published a landmark paper in Science claiming language-like semantic communication in the alarm calls of vervet monkeys.
Drew Rendall
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A primer on information and influence in animal communication [PDF]
, 2013 U. Stegmann
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Categorical perception in animal communication and decision-making
Behavioral Ecology, 2020 The information an animal gathers from its environment, including that associated with signals, often varies continuously. Animals may respond to this continuous variation in a physical stimulus as lying in discrete categories rather than along a ...
P. Green +2 more
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The importance of visual markings in night birds. The case of the Eagle Owl, Bubo bubo
Rivista Italiana di Ornitologia - Research in Ornithology, 2012 This work brings together the results of a series of researches on the importance of the visual communication for nocturnal birds, carried out using the Eagle Owl as a model species.
Vincenzo Penteriani +2 more
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Behavioural Analysis of Dogs’ Response to Threatening and Neutral Conspecific Video Stimuli
Applied Sciences, 2023 Dogs’ displacement behaviours and some facial expressions have been suggested to function as appeasement signals, reducing the occurrences of aggressive interactions.
Giulia Pedretti +4 more
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Systems biology in animal sciences [PDF]
, 2011 Systems biology is a rapidly expanding field of research and is applied in a number of biological disciplines. In animal sciences, omics approaches are increasingly used, yielding vast amounts of data, but systems biology approaches to extract ...
Pas, M.F.W., te +11 more
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Singing silver‐haired bats (Lasionycteris noctivagans)
Wildlife Society Bulletin, 2023 Characterizing sounds produced by animals can lead to better understanding of their behavioral ecology and conservation. While considerable focus has been on signals used by bats for echolocation, there has been less emphasis on nonecholocation sounds ...
Cori L. Lausen +6 more
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