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Aggression, territoriality, and mating behaviour in North American treefrogs
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The behaviour described for H. versicolor is compared with that seen in eight other species of North American Hyla and indicates that dominant males that lose vocal interactions or fights sometimes cease calling and remain silent within the territory of other, dominant males.About:
This article is published in Animal Behaviour.The article was published on 1979-02-01. It has received 187 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Amplexus & Mating call.read more
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Sexual selection and the evolution of song
TL;DR: The question of why listeners have evolved to respond to song in the contexts of female choice and male contest is examined, and ideas and evidence on the evolution of relationships betweensong and female choice, and between song and success in male contests are reviewed.
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Female mate choice in treefrogs : static and dynamic acoustic criteria
TL;DR: Playback experiments showed that females exhibit patterns of preferences that should result in selection that is stabilizing or weakly directional on static properties, and highly directional on dynamic properties; and the overall attractiveness of a signal is affected by variation in both static and dynamic properties.
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The evolution of vocalization in frogs and toads
TL;DR: Parsimony analysis supports the idea that auditory biases preceded the evolutionary appearance of call elements that enhance the attractiveness of advertisement calls in one species group of neotropical frogs.
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Owners and satellites: the economics of territory defence in the Pied Wagtail, Motacilla alba
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Energetics of vocalization by an anuran amphibian (Hyla versicolor)
TL;DR: Data indicate that acoustic advertisement byHyla versicolor is among the most energetically expensive activities regularly undertaken by any anuran, and indeed, is the most demanding yet measured in an ectothermic vertebrate.
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Sociobiology: The New Synthesis
TL;DR: Ressenya de l'obra d'E. O. Wilson apareguda el 1975, Sociobiology. The New Synthesis.The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press.
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Distance to Nearest Neighbor as a Measure of Spatial Relationships in Populations
Philip J. Clark,Francis C. Evans +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors studied the vulnerability of several species to trapping on the islands and found that the islands appeared to lag behind the mainland in the development of their populations and the populations of small mammals fluctuate quite widely and the several populations appear to be somewhat independent of each other.
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The social behaviour of anuran amphibians
TL;DR: Temporal patterns of anuran reproduction fall into two broad categories: prolonged breeding and explosive breeding, and many aspects of vocal behaviour and chorus organization can be viewed as consequences of intrasexual competition.
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Functional Aspects of Anuran Middle Ear Structures
R. Eric Lombard,Ian R. Straughan +1 more
TL;DR: Experimental determinations of acoustic perception in amphibians must be controlled for anaesthesia and forelimb disposition, and the presence of anaesthesia or unnatural limb position can affect the animal's ability to perceive low frequency sounds by preventing normal opercularis function.