Ursula Kwong-Brown, Martha L Tobias ... Darcy B Kelley
When ancestral Xenopus returned to water ~170mya, they evolved a new method for producing courtship calls underwater without airflow, using vibrations that also preserve essential acoustic information on species identity.
Quantitative behavioral assays and modeling show that acoustic duetting in Drosophila during courtship relies on the detection of precisely timed cues via multiple sensory channels.
Catherine Perrodin, Colombine Verzat, Daniel Bendor
A behavioural paradigm demonstrates that during courtship song preference by female mice relies on the temporal regularity of the male's production of song syllables.
Call-based vocal communication of individually recorded zebra finches changes in social groups across reproductive stages and is related with successful egg laying.
The modulatory neurochemicals acetylcholine and dopamine are released differentially into the basolateral amygdala depending on the emotional content of vocalizations and the sex, hormonal state, and experience of listening animals.
Infants' vocalisations are contingent on their own stress physiology, and alter the inter-personal dynamics of how stress states are shared across the infant-caregiver dyad.
Bird activity during Covid 19 lockdown changed depending on species and site, as well as on environmental parameters and heterospecific (e.g., human) activity, revealing a complex and dynamic urban ecological system.
A computational model of the neuronal network that recognizes mating signals reveals network properties that support and constrain behavioral diversity in a species group.