Sounds of the forest, and beyond: A tour of acoustic communication in animals

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Webb, Wesley

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2023-11

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Conference Contribution - Oral Presentation

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New Zealand
birdsongs
sound recordings
animal sound science

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Webb, W. H. (2023, November). Sounds of the forest, and beyond: A tour of acoustic communication in animals [Paper presentation]. Royal Forest and Bird Protection Society of New Zealand. South Auckland Branch 2023 (non-conference), Howick, Auckland, New Zealand https://hdl.handle.net/10652/6557

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New Zealand bellbird (Anthornis melanura) Fish sounds: Do fish talk to each other? Fish have been recorded singing a dawn chorus: Just like birds Why make sounds? Sound spectrogram: birth of bioacoustics (animal sound science) World's weirdest bird sounds Northern lapwing (Vanellus vanellus) Capuchinbird (Perissocephalus tricolor) Common potoo (Nyctibius griseus) Chorus cicada (Amphipsalta zelandica) Why crickets just won't shut up White-collared manakin (Manacus candel) Club-wing manakin (Machaeropterus deliciosus) Tui (Prosthermadera novaseelandiae) Laysan albatross ( Phoebastria immutabilis) Great sage-grouse (Centrocercus urophasianus) Tick-trefoil treehopper Male thornbug treehopper Ants (Pheiddole pallidula) Paussus favieri - ant eating beatle Walnut sphinx moth caterpillar Giant wētā (Deinarcrida spp.) Only 8 taxa reported learning vocalisations Woof Woof the talking tui Genetic transmission - Cultural transmission Unlike genes Vocal learning leads to geographic variation in song Very little know about song culture in females NZ bell bird / korimako (Anthornis melanura) The syrinx Using Raven Pro https://koe.io.ac.nz/ 1 Do the sexes differ in syllable repertoire size? 2 How much repertoire overlap between males & females? 3 Which syllable types are shared between sites? Decoupled cultures [YouTube links for sounds throughout]

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