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Carel ten Cate
Researcher at Leiden University
Publications - 137
Citations - 6134
Carel ten Cate is an academic researcher from Leiden University. The author has contributed to research in topics: Zebra finch & Streptopelia. The author has an hindex of 41, co-authored 134 publications receiving 5549 citations. Previous affiliations of Carel ten Cate include University of Groningen & University of Cambridge.
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A noisy spring: the impact of globally rising underwater sound levels on fish
Hans Slabbekoorn,Niels Bouton,Ilse van Opzeeland,Aukje Coers,Carel ten Cate,Arthur N. Popper +5 more
TL;DR: Attention is called on to the urgent need to study the role of sound in the lives of fish and to develop a better understanding of the ecological impact of anthropogenic noise.
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The impact of learning on sexual selection and speciation.
Machteld N. Verzijden,Carel ten Cate,Maria R. Servedio,Genevieve M. Kozak,Jenny W. Boughman,Erik I. Svensson +5 more
TL;DR: It is pointed out that the context of learning, namely how and when learning takes place, often makes a crucial difference to the predicted evolutionary outcome.
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Low-frequency songs lose their potency in noisy urban conditions
Wouter Halfwerk,Sander Bot,Jasper Buikx,Marco van der Velde,Jan Komdeur,Carel ten Cate,Hans Slabbekoorn +6 more
TL;DR: It is experimentally shown that urban noise conditions impair male–female communication and that signal efficiency depends on song frequency in the presence of noise, and that low-frequency songs by males are related to female fertility as well as sexual fidelity.
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Simple rules can explain discrimination of putative recursive syntactic structures by a songbird species
TL;DR: Although this study casts doubts on whether the rules used by starlings and zebra finches really provide evidence for the ability to detect recursion as present in “context-free” syntax, it also provides evidence for abstract learning of vocal structure in a songbird.
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Early learning influences species assortative mating preferences in Lake Victoria cichlid fish.
TL;DR: It is suggested that learning creates favourable conditions for reproductive isolation to evolve, and is provided the first evidence that learning, in the form of sexual imprinting, helps maintain reproductive isolation among closely related cichlid species.