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subject: animal communication date: 2021

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Prey exploits the auditory illusions of eavesdropping predators

10.4231/TYHF-XJ20

Claire T Hemingway, Henry D Legett, 0000-0001-9005-8641, Ximena E Bernal, 0000-0001-6155-5980

03/04/2021

We show that male tree frogs reduce their attractiveness to eavesdropping enemies (bats and midges) by overlapping their calls at near-perfect synchrony with the calls of neighboring conspecifics taking advantage of an auditory illusion.

animal communication biological sciences communication network eavesdroppers illusion sensory exploitation synchrony

Signal synchrony and alternation among neighbor males in a Japanese Stream Breeding Treefrog, Buergeria japonica

10.4231/7M5G-FZ96

Henry D Legett, 0000-0001-9005-8641, Ikkyu Aihara, Ximena E Bernal, 0000-0001-6155-5980

03/04/2021

We examined call timing strategies of the Ryukyu Kajika frog showing variation in temporal signaling strategies within a species with a call type that is synchronized with neighbors and another one that is produced alternating.

acoustic communication animal communication biological sciences Buergeria japonica call timing synchronized signals synchrony

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