PARAMETERS USED FOR RECOGNITION OF DISTRESS CALLS IN TWO SPECIES:LARUS ARGENTATUSANDSTURNUS VULGARIS
- 1 January 1989
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Taylor & Francis in Bioacoustics
- Vol. 2 (1) , 23-33
- https://doi.org/10.1080/09524622.1989.9753111
Abstract
Distress calls are signals effective over a long distance. They are well known to evoke interspecific reactions. We suggest that the interspecificity phenomenon results from the use of similar laws of decoding by the species concerned. These laws must take into account the transmission channel which always has a great influence on long-range communication. We tested our hypothesis by broadcasting simplified synthetic calls to two species of birds: the herring gull and the starling. The various calls differed in terms of frequency modulation (FM). Two main conclusions emerged from this series of tests:Keywords
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