ArticleBehavioral ecology and sociobiology
Acoustic ranging in poison frogs-it is not about signal amplitude alone.
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- Exploring links between personality traits and their social and non-social environments in wild poison frogs.Behavioral ecology and sociobiology · 2022Article
- Repeatable Territorial Aggression in a Neotropical Poison Frog.Frontiers in ecology and evolution · 2022Article
- Females and males respond differently to calls impaired by noise in a tree frog.Ecology and evolution · 2021Article
- Experience shapes accuracy in territorial decision-making in a poison frog.Biology letters · 2020Article
- Field Propagation Experiments of Male African Savanna Elephant Rumbles: A Focus on the Transmission of Formant Frequencies.Animals : an open access journal from MDPI · 2018Article
- The acoustic adaptation hypothesis in a widely distributed South American frog: Southernmost signals propagate better.Scientific reports · 2018Article
- Listening in the bog: I. Acoustic interactions and spacing between males of Sphagniana sphagnorum.Journal of comparative physiology. A, Neuroethology, sensory, neural, and behavioral physiology · 2018Article
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- Evidence of auditory insensitivity to vocalization frequencies in two frogs.Scientific reports · 2017Article
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abstractAcoustic ranging allows identifying the distance of a sound source and mediates inter-individual spacing and aggression in territorial species. Birds and mammals are known to use more complex cues than only sound pressure level (SPL), which can be influenced by the signaller and signal transmission in non-predictable ways and thus is not reliable by itself. For frogs, only SPL is currently known to mediate inter-individual distances, but we hypothesise that the strong territoriality of Dendrobatids could make the use of complex cues for ranging highly beneficial for this family. Therefore, we tested the ranging abilities of territorial males of SIGNIFICANCE STATEMENT: Acoustic ranging allows the distance of vocalizing competitors and mates to be identified. While birds and mammals are known to use complex cues such as temporal degradation, frequency-dependent attenuation and reverberation for ranging, previous research indicated that frogs rely only on signal amplitude (sound pressure level) to assess the distance of other callers. The present study shows for the first time that also poison frogs can make use of more complex cues, an ability which is likely to be highly beneficial in their territorial social organization and probably can also be used for orientation.
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