Publication Date:
2014-01-25
Description:
Animal displays are often perceived by intended and unintended receivers in more than one sensory system. In addition, cues that are an incidental consequence of signal production can also be perceived by different receivers, even when the receivers use different sensory systems to perceive them. Here we show that the vocal responses of male tungara frogs (Physalaemus pustulosus) increase twofold when call-induced water ripples are added to the acoustic component of a rival's call. Hunting bats (Trachops cirrhosus) can echolocate this signal by-product and prefer to attack model frogs when ripples are added to the acoustic component of the call. This study illustrates how the perception of a signal by-product by intended and unintended receivers through different sensory systems generates both costs and benefits for the signaler.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Halfwerk, W -- Jones, P L -- Taylor, R C -- Ryan, M J -- Page, R A -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 2014 Jan 24;343(6169):413-6. doi: 10.1126/science.1244812.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, Apartado 0843-03092, Balboa, Ancon, Republic of Panama.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24458640" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
Keywords:
Animals
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Anura/*physiology
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*Auditory Perception
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Chiroptera/*physiology
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*Courtship
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*Echolocation
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Female
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Male
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*Mating Preference, Animal
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Sound
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*Vibration
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*Vocalization, Animal
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Water
Print ISSN:
0036-8075
Electronic ISSN:
1095-9203
Topics:
Biology
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Chemistry and Pharmacology
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Computer Science
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Medicine
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Natural Sciences in General
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Physics
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