ArticleProceedings. Biological sciences2018
Acoustic adaptation to city noise through vocal learning by a songbird.
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- Birds of a feather speak together: Understanding the different dialects of animals can help to decipher their communication.EMBO reports · 2021Article
- The impact of anthropogenic noise on individual identification via female song in Black-capped chickadees (Poecile atricapillus).Scientific reports · 2021Article
- Urban birdsongs: higher minimum song frequency of an urban colonist persists in a common garden experiment.Animal behaviour · 2020Article
- Acoustic preadaptation to transmit vocal individuality of savanna nightjars in noisy urban environments.Scientific reports · 2020Article
- Mate choice in a polluted world: consequences for individuals, populations and communities.Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 2019Review
- Acoustic adaptation to city noise through vocal learning by a songbird.Proceedings. Biological sciences · 2018Article
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Abstract
Anthropogenic noise imposes novel selection pressures, especially on species that communicate acoustically. Many animals-including insects, frogs, whales and birds-produce sounds at higher frequencies in areas with low-frequency noise pollution. Although there is support for animals changing their vocalizations in real time in response to noise (i.e. immediate flexibility), other evolutionary mechanisms for animals that learn their vocalizations remain largely unexplored. We hypothesize that cultural selection for signal structures less masked by noise is a mechanism of acoustic adaptation to anthropogenic noise. We test this hypothesis by presenting nestling white-crowned sparrows (
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