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Exploring Animal Behavior Through Sound: Volume 2. Chapter 6 – Birds
Birds are among the most vocal of taxa and there is a wealth of research investigating how birds produce, sense, and use sounds. In thi...
How deep is their lunch: Inshore South African Bryde’s whales shift attack mode at different depths
Understanding animal foraging behaviour can answer pertinent questions in behavioural ecology and help conservation efforts. Baleen wha...
“Why keep your mouth shut?” Inshore South African Bryde’s whales abort lunges within feeding dives.
Rorqual whales exhibit foraging plasticity to maximize their energy intake and reduce the cost of feeding manoeuvres. Bryde’s whales ar...
Threatened synanthropes depend on intact forests: a critical evaluation of Moore et al. (2023).
Synanthropes are known for their remarkable adaptability to coexist with humans, yet increased visibility exposes them to significant t...
Size-specific strategies of sympatric cetaceans to reduce heat loss.
Maintaining a stable core body temperature is essential for endotherms. Cetaceans live in a highly thermally conductive medium, requiri...
MacaqueNet: Advancing comparative behavioural research through large-scale collaboration.
There is a vast and ever‐accumulating amount of behavioural data on individually recognised animals, an incredible resource to shed lig...
Biphonation in animal vocalizations: insights into communicative functions and production mechanisms.
Biphonation, defined as the simultaneous production of two distinct, non-harmonically related fundamental frequencies, has traditionall...
Nonlinear phenomena in vertebrate vocalizations: mechanisms and communicative functions.
Nonlinear phenomena (NLP) are acoustic irregularities that are widespread in animal and human vocal repertoires, as well as in music. T...
Machine learning algorithms can predict emotional valence across ungulate vocalizations
Vocalizations can vary as a function of their context of production and provide an immediate measure of an animal’s affective states. I...
Emotion in Nonverbal Communication: Comparing Animal and Human Vocalizations and Human Text Messages
Humans and other animals communicate a large quantity of information vocally through nonverbal means. Here, we review the domains of an...