| Behavioural variables influence contact call rate more than characteristics of the vegetation in a group-living passerine species | |
Meaux, Estelle; Peabotuwage, Indika; Mammides, Christos; Malykhina, Katsiaryna; Quan, Rui-Chang ; Goodale, Eben
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| 2021 | |
| Source Publication | BEHAVIOURAL PROCESSES
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| ISSN | 0376-6357 |
| Volume | 185Issue:-Pages:- |
| Abstract | Although the contact calls of birds have been studied for their acoustic properties, limited research has investigated their repetitive nature. The rate of contact calls could be related to movement, with recruiting birds signalling their location, or it could help maintaining spacing between group mates, or give information about the environment where both signaller and receiver are located. If maintaining spacing, higher call rates would be expected in denser vegetation; alternatively, if birds gain information about predation risk from the cessation of contact calling, then open areas might elicit higher call rate. We studied how contact call rate in groups of Swinhoe's White-eyes (Zosterops simplex) was influenced by vegetation, collecting a total of 800 recordings. After statistically controlling for group size, the vegetation effect was weak and inconsistent. However, flying individuals produced a distinct flight call consisting of repeated notes similar to contact calls, and group-level contact call rate increased before flights, particularly when birds flew into the group. Therefore, we believe that contact call rate indicates information about individual or group movements, and could function as a continuous signal about the need for recruitment. We encourage further studies investigating how habitat, risk and audience influence contact call rate. |
| Keyword | Acoustic adaptation hypothesis Animal sociality Group size Recruitment signal Risk perception Vocal communication |
| Subject Area | Psychology ; Behavioral Sciences ; Zoology |
| DOI | 10.1016/j.beproc.2021.104345 |
| Indexed By | SCI |
| Language | 英语 |
| WOS ID | WOS:000624680300008 |
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| Document Type | 期刊论文 |
| Identifier | https://ir.xtbg.ac.cn/handle/353005/12166 |
| Collection | 2012年后新成立研究组 |
| Affiliation | 1.Guangxi Univ, Coll Forestry, Guangxi Key Lab Forest Ecol & Conservat, Nanning, Peoples R China 2.Chinese Acad Sci, Ctr Integrat Conservat, Xishuangbanna Trop Bot Garden, Mengla, Yunnan, Peoples R China |
| Recommended Citation GB/T 7714 | Meaux, Estelle,Peabotuwage, Indika,Mammides, Christos,et al. Behavioural variables influence contact call rate more than characteristics of the vegetation in a group-living passerine species[J]. BEHAVIOURAL PROCESSES,2021,185(-):-. |
| APA | Meaux, Estelle,Peabotuwage, Indika,Mammides, Christos,Malykhina, Katsiaryna,Quan, Rui-Chang,&Goodale, Eben.(2021).Behavioural variables influence contact call rate more than characteristics of the vegetation in a group-living passerine species.BEHAVIOURAL PROCESSES,185(-),-. |
| MLA | Meaux, Estelle,et al."Behavioural variables influence contact call rate more than characteristics of the vegetation in a group-living passerine species".BEHAVIOURAL PROCESSES 185.-(2021):-. |
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