... of female preference nor support the hypothesis that female choosiness towards song patterns changes with age. Acoustic communication Female phonotaxis Track ball No-choice experiment Gryllus bimaculatus Animals make choices over their adult life span that directly affect...

...–120 Hz) of the buzzing sounds they are known to produce, supporting their use in intraspecific communication. Marine invertebrate Crustacean Hearing Auditory evoked potential Acoustic communication Sound is an essential and widespread sensory cue for many marine organisms. It has...

... (Alligator mississippiensis) . J. Exp. Biol.   217 , 1094 - 1107 . 10.1242/jeb.092866 Brzoska , J. , Walkowiak , W. and Schneider , H. ( 1977 ). Acoustic communication in the grass frog (Rana t. temporaria L.): calls, auditory thresholds and behavioral responses . J. Comp. Physiol...

... ). By contrast, there is currently no evidence that the Lombard effect in animals can be dynamically modulated at the syllable level within single vocalizations. Acoustic communication Echolocation Lombard effect Vocal production control Summary: Echolocating bats dynamically modulate...

... calls produced by type I males ( Rohmann and Bass, 2011 ; Sisneros, 2009a ; Sisneros and Bass, 2003 ; Sisneros et al., 2004b ). The detection of the dominant high-frequency components of midshipman vocalizations is important for acoustic communication because primarily only the higher acoustic...

...-matched pairs (<5 mm carapace length difference), the results of the analysis did not permit us to infer that the processes underlying these sequences could be differentiated from random ones. Thus, such results prevented any conclusions about acoustic communication. This concurs with both the high...

...., 2016 ), where noise interferes with the detection or discrimination of acoustic communication signals. The impact of acoustic masking on communication can be estimated based on signal characteristics of the communication signal, hearing threshold, masking noise and reference background noise conditions...

.../ Summary: In grasshoppers, the localization of sounds with ambiguous or conflicting directional cues depends on the magnitude and temporal position of each cue. This gives insight into general principles of directional hearing. Directional hearing Orthopteran Acoustic communication Precedence...

...Andrew D. Brown; Ruiyu Zeng; Joseph A. Sisneros ABSTRACT The plainfin midshipman ( Porichthys notatus ) is an acoustically communicative teleost fish. Here, we evaluated auditory evoked potentials (AEPs) in reproductive female midshipman exposed to tones at or near dominant frequencies of the male...

...-1/ Highlighted Article: Low-output infrequent calls in baleen whale mother–calf pairs may mediate contact between mother and calf, while decreasing the risk of detection by potential predators. Acoustic communication Ambient noise Baleen whales Australia Maternal investment...

... emitting the /Kwa/ sound. Bioacoustics Passive acoustic monitoring Sound production Acoustic communication Scorpaenidae Passive acoustic monitoring (PAM) of fish populations (i.e. the monitoring of vocal fish by means of hydrophones) has been used for analysing fish presence, distribution...

...Maria Clara P. Amorim; Raquel O. Vasconcelos; Marta Bolgan; Silvia S. Pedroso; Paulo J. Fonseca ABSTRACT Acoustic communication is an important part of social behaviour of fish species that live or breed in shallow noisy waters. Previous studies have shown that some fish species exploit a quiet...

..., which vary in their temporal sensitivity. Hearing Anuran Sensory processing Amphibian papilla Basilar papilla Acoustic communication Even the simplest animal signals vary in multiple dimensions ( Hebets et al., 2016 ). For instance, all acoustic signals, even those characterized...

... for acoustic communication may have fitness consequences, although natural history information is lacking for estimation of the costs and benefits of hearing conspecific calls, predator cues or prey sounds. All four species that displayed immature middle ear structures had poor hearing sensitivity in the 0.9...

... ). Adaptive sounds and silences: acoustic anti-predator strategies in insects . In Insect Hearing and Acoustic Communication. Animal Signals and Communication , Vol. 1 . (ed. B.   Hedwig ), pp. 65 - 79 . Berlin , Heidelberg : Springer . Gerhardt , H. C. and Huber , F. ( 2002...

... interests. 8 4 2015 7 7 2015 © 2015. Published by The Company of Biologists Ltd 2015 Highlighted Article: Vocal differentiation and parallel development between vocal–motor control and saccular sensitivity in toadfish. Hearing Vocal differentiation Acoustic communication...

...Eileen Gabel; Janine Kuntze; R. Matthias Hennig ABSTRACT Multiple attributes usually have to be assessed when choosing a mate. Efficient choice of the best mate is complicated if the available cues are not positively correlated, as is often the case during acoustic communication. Because of varying...

.... Summary: Experiments with trained animals help understanding of how song birds perceive signals in their natural environment. We tested how background noise affects the perception of acoustic cues that aid assessing the distance of a sound source. Acoustic communication Ranging Great tit Parus...

... 2014 Acoustic communication Bioacoustics Distress sounds Ictaluridae Predator–prey Pectoral spine Anti-predator adaptation Catfishes are one of the most successful groups of fishes, with over 3000 species ( Ferraris, 2007 ). They have highly modified pectoral spines that can be bound...

... and interpretation from all authors. Competing interests The authors declare no competing financial interests. 23 2 2014 16 6 2014 © 2014. Published by The Company of Biologists Ltd 2014 Acoustic communication Vocal recognition Perceptual plasticity Propagation-induced...