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Vocal mimicry in Corvids

Animal Cognition
Vocal mimicry, the copying of sounds produced by another species or the environment, is commonly described in vocal learners, such as songbirds. Understanding the functions of vocal mimicry can help to uncover the evolutionary drivers of vocal learning ...
Claudia A.F. Wascher, Gemini Waterhouse, Bret A. Beheim   +2 more
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When Mimicry is the Last Song Left

, 2021
What messages are coded through the nonhuman voice? How do animals witness, record, and replay the sounds of anthropogenic incursion? How might their calls pluralize human narratives of extinction and biodiversity loss?
Wright, Mark Peter
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A comparative study of the function of heterospecific vocal mimicry in European passerines [PDF]

, 2007
Although heterospecific vocal imitation is well documented in passerines, the evolutionary correlates of this phenomenon are poorly known. Here, we studied interspecific variation in vocal mimicry in a comparative study of 241 European songbirds.
Eens, Marcel, Avil\ue9s, Jes\ufas Miguel, Pavlova, D. Z., M\uf8ller, Anders Pape, Moller, A. P., Eens, M., Garamszegi, László Zsolt, Aviles, J. M., Garamszegi, L\ue1szl\uf3 Zsolt, Pavlova, Denitza Zaprianova   +9 more
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Short Peptides for Hydrolase Supramolecular Mimicry and Their Potential Applications

Gels, 2023
Hydrolases are enzymes that have found numerous applications in various industrial sectors spanning from pharmaceuticals to foodstuff and beverages, consumers’ products such as detergents and personal care, textiles, and even for biodiesel production and
Paola Alletto, Ana Maria Garcia, Silvia Marchesan   +2 more
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Cognitive dimensions of predator responses to imperfect mimicry? [PDF]

, 2007
Many palatable insects, for example hoverflies, deter predators by mimicking well-defended insects such as wasps. However, for human observers, these flies often seem to be little better than caricatures of wasps – their visual appearance and ...
Daniel Osorio, Lars Chittka, Chittka Lars, Chittka, L, Osorio Daniel, Lars Chittka (27016), Osorio, D, Daniel Colaco Osorio (4460353)   +7 more
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Guillain-Barré Syndrome-related campylobacter jejuni in Bangladesh: ganglioside mimicry and cross-reactive antibodies [PDF]

, 2012
BACKGROUND: <br/> Campylobacter jejuni is the predominant antecedent infection in Guillain-Barré syndrome (GBS). Molecular mimicry and cross-reactive immune responses to C.
Klaij, K, Talukder, K.A. (Kaisar), Tio-Gillen, Anne P., Endtz Hubert P., Gilbert Michel, Klaij, K., Jianjun Li (139837), Anne P. Tio-Gillen (139842), Talukder, K.A., Gilbert, Michel, Klaij, Kevin, Kaisar A Talukder, Gillen, Anne, Islam, Zhahirul, Tio-Gillen Anne P., Quazi D Mohammad, Talukder, KA, Talukder, Kaisar A., Gilbert, M., van Rijs, W., Jacobs, Bart C., Alex van Belkum (38419), Hugh J Willison, Islam, Z. (Zhahirul), van Rijs, Wouter, Kevin Klaij, Jacobs Bart C., Willison, H.J. (Hugh), Quazi D. Mohammad (139834), Li, J. (Jianjun), Klaij Kevin, Talukder Kaisar A., Willison, HJ, Mohammad, Quazi D., Gilbert, M. (Michel), Klaij, K. (Kevin), Jacobs, B.C. (Bart), Bart C. Jacobs (139863), Endtz, Hubert, Jianjun Li, Bart C Jacobs, Li, J., Willison, Hugh J., Willison Hugh J., Kevin Klaij (139835), Rijs, Wouter, Zhahirul Islam, Tio-Gillen, A.P., Willison, H.J., Michel Gilbert (60775), Endtz, H.P., van Belkum Alex, Jacobs, B.C., Endtz, Hubert P., Mohammad, QD, van Belkum, Alex, Hugh J. Willison (139850), Mohammad Quazi D., van Rijs Wouter, Hubert P. Endtz (139857), Li, JJ, Michel Gilbert, Kaisar A. Talukder (139846), Mohammad, Q.D., Wouter van Rijs, Mohammad, Q.D. (Quazi), Zhahirul Islam (139833), Belkum, Alex, Hubert P Endtz, Gilbert, M, Belkum, A.F. (Alex) van, Islam Zhahirul, Islam, Z, Islam, Z., Tio-Gillen, A.P. (Anne), Endtz, H.P. (Hubert), Anne P Tio-Gillen, Wouter van Rijs (139839), Rijs, W. (Wouter) van, van Belkum, A., Li, Jianjun, Li Jianjun, Alex van Belkum   +82 more
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Mimicry in Ted Elemeforo’s Fountain of Betrayal [PDF]

, 2022
This paper examines mimicry as an opportunistic pattern of behavior where women or the oppressed copy or imitate the lifestyle pattern language values dress codes and food of people in power with the hope or desire to have access to that same power ...
Ayebanoa Timibofa
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Morality and Mimicry

, 2019
Analyze how morality affect mimicry in different forms: behavioral mimicry, facial mimicry, language ...
Silvia Moscatelli, Marco Brambilla, MICHELA MENEGATTI, Simona Sacchi   +3 more
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Hidden jewels of Malaysia: two new genera and species of remarkable clearwing moths (Lepidoptera: Sesiidae: Osminiini)

The European Zoological Journal, 2022
A stunning scarlet-coloured clearwing moth was found mud-puddling on a rainforest river bank in Malaysia and is described herein as a new genus and species, Scarlata nirvana gen. et sp. Nov..
Marta Skowron Volponi
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Numbers, neighbors, and hungry predators: What makes chemically defended aposematic prey susceptible to predation?

Ecology and Evolution, 2020
Many chemically defended aposematic species are characterized by relatively low toxin levels, which enables predators to include them in their diets under certain circumstances.
Jan M. Kaczmarek, Mikołaj Kaczmarski, Jan Mazurkiewicz, Janusz Kloskowski   +3 more
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