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ArticlePhilosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences2024

Call combination production is linked to the social environment in Western Australian magpies (

Sarah L Walsh, Simon W Townsend, Sabrina Engesser, Amanda R Ridley

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Article in Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

2 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. The power of sound: unravelling how acoustic communication shapes group dynamics.Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 2024
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  2. Call combination production is linked to the social environment in Western Australian magpies (Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 2024
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors.

Sarah L WalshCentre for Evolutionary Biology, School of Biological Sciences, University of Western Australia , Crawley, Western Australia 6008, Australia.ORCID 0000-0002-2984-2311
Simon W TownsendDepartment of Evolutionary Anthropology, University of Zurich , Zurich 8032, Switzerland.ORCID 0000-0003-1504-1801
Sabrina EngesserDepartment of Biology, University of Copenhagen , Kobenhavn 2100, Denmark.ORCID 0000-0003-0425-2179
Amanda R RidleyCentre for Evolutionary Biology, School of Biological Sciences, University of Western Australia , Crawley, Western Australia 6008, Australia.ORCID 0000-0001-5886-0992

Funding

Ecological Society of Australia IncorporatedHolsworth Wildlife Research EndowmentSchweizerischer Nationalfonds zur Förderung der Wissenschaftlichen Forschung
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

It has recently become clear that some language-specific traits previously thought to be unique to humans (such as the capacity to combine sounds) are widespread in the animal kingdom. Despite the increase in studies documenting the presence of call combinations in non-human animals, factors promoting this vocal trait are unclear. One leading hypothesis proposes that communicative complexity co-evolved with social complexity owing to the need to transmit a diversity of information to a wider range of social partners. The Western Australian magpie (

Indexed as

Vocalization, AnimalAnimalsFemaleMalePasseriformesSocial BehaviorSocial EnvironmentSongbirdsWestern Australiacall combinationscomplex animal signalssocial complexity hypothesisvocal communicationWestern Australian magpies

Identifiers

PMID38768205
PMCPMC11391283

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