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Shen T, Liu J, Tang X, Peng C, Li S, Feng C, Mu L, Su H. Acoustic difference in advertisement calls among two sympatric Boulenophrys species: A confirmatory case to acoustic niche hypothesis and morphological constraint hypothesis. Ecol Evol 2024; 14:e11318. [PMID: 38654713 PMCID: PMC11036132 DOI: 10.1002/ece3.11318] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/14/2023] [Revised: 03/09/2024] [Accepted: 04/03/2024] [Indexed: 04/26/2024] Open
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In anurans, acoustic communication is the most important form of communication at the interspecific and intraspecific levels. Acoustic diagnostic features may be a potential alternative to morphometric and molecular diagnostics. Here, we assessed the variations in advertisement calls between two sympatric species, Boulenophrys leishanensis and Boulenophrys spinata, that share their breeding season and breeding sites. In addition, we investigated any potential relationships between call parameters and body size. We found that the advertisement calls of both species are simple calls. The two species exhibited significant differences in all call parameters. Both B. leishanensis and B. spinata showed a significant negative correlation with their body size on dominant frequency. These differences in call parameters may play an important role in interspecific recognition. Additionally, because intraspecific acoustic variation reflects body size, calls may be relevant for sexual selection. Our study supports the acoustic niche hypothesis and the morphological constraint hypothesis and calls are a valid tool for distinguishing between the two species of Boulenophrys in the field.
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- Tuo Shen
- College of ForestryGuizhou UniversityGuiyangChina
- Biodiversity and Nature Conservation Research CenterGuizhou UniversityGuiyangChina
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- College of ForestryGuizhou UniversityGuiyangChina
- Biodiversity and Nature Conservation Research CenterGuizhou UniversityGuiyangChina
- Department of Resources and EnvironmentMoutai InstituteRenhuaiChina
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- Leigongshan National Nature Reserve Administration Bureau of GuizhouLeishanChina
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- Leigongshan National Nature Reserve Administration Bureau of GuizhouLeishanChina
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- Biodiversity and Nature Conservation Research CenterGuizhou UniversityGuiyangChina
- College of Life SciencesGuizhou UniversityGuiyangChina
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- College of ForestryGuizhou UniversityGuiyangChina
- Biodiversity and Nature Conservation Research CenterGuizhou UniversityGuiyangChina
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- College of ForestryGuizhou UniversityGuiyangChina
- Biodiversity and Nature Conservation Research CenterGuizhou UniversityGuiyangChina
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- College of ForestryGuizhou UniversityGuiyangChina
- Biodiversity and Nature Conservation Research CenterGuizhou UniversityGuiyangChina
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Aihara I, Kominami D, Hosokawa Y, Murata M. Excitatory and inhibitory interactions affect the balance of chorus activity and energy efficiency in the aggregations of male frogs: Numerical simulations using a hybrid dynamical model. J Theor Biol 2023; 558:111352. [PMID: 36368559 DOI: 10.1016/j.jtbi.2022.111352] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/26/2022] [Revised: 10/23/2022] [Accepted: 11/01/2022] [Indexed: 11/11/2022]
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We numerically study the role of excitatory and inhibitory interactions in the aggregations of male frogs. In most frogs, males produce sounds to attract conspecific females, which activates the calling behavior of other males and results in collective choruses. While the calling behavior is effective for mate attraction, it requires high energy consumption. In contrast, satellite behavior is an alternative mating strategy in which males deliberately stay silent in the vicinity of a calling male and attempt to intercept the female attracted to the caller, allowing the satellite males to reduce their energy consumption while having a chance of mating. Here we propose a hybrid dynamical model in which male frogs autonomously switch among three behavioral states (i.e., calling state, resting state, and satellite state) due to the excitatory and inhibitory interactions. Numerical simulations of the proposed model demonstrated that (1) both collective choruses and satellite behavior can be reproduced and (2) the satellite males can prolong the energy depletion time of the whole aggregation while they split the maximum chorus activity into two levels over the whole chorusing period. This study highlights the importance of the multiple behavioral types and their transitions for the performance of the whole aggregation.
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- Ikkyu Aihara
- Faculty of Engineering, Information and Systems, University of Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305-8573, Japan.
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- Graduate School of Information Science and Technology, Osaka University, Osaka 565-0871, Japan
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- Graduate School of Information Science and Technology, Osaka University, Osaka 565-0871, Japan
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- Graduate School of Information Science and Technology, Osaka University, Osaka 565-0871, Japan
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Behavioural context shapes vocal sequences in two anuran species with different repertoire sizes. Anim Behav 2022. [DOI: 10.1016/j.anbehav.2021.12.004] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/18/2022]
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Wang T, Jia L, Zhu B, Chen B, Wang J. Advertisement call of two Liuixalus species (Anura: Rhacophoridae) endemic to Hainan Island, China. Behav Processes 2021; 189:104423. [PMID: 34029624 DOI: 10.1016/j.beproc.2021.104423] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/12/2020] [Revised: 04/01/2021] [Accepted: 05/11/2021] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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Advertisement calls potentially represent honest signals for delimiting species and sexual selection. Quantitative statistics of individual variation in advertisement call properties can be used to predict female preferences for particular signal properties. In this study, advertisement call properties and their individual variation was analyzed in two endemic treefrog species, Liuixalus hainanus and L. ocellatus. Together with the description of the advertisement calls, our goals included determining whether call properties can be used to distinguish between the two species on the field, which acoustic properties are likely play a role in species or individual recognition, and whether they could predict the signaler's body size. We found that the dominant frequency, call duration, inter-call interval, and note number of monosyllabic calls in L. hainanus were significantly higher or longer than those in L. ocellatus. The dominant frequency was classified as a static property; the call duration, inter-call interval, inter-note interval, and note number were classified as dynamic properties in both species. The inter-note interval of multisyllabic calls was correlated with body mass, and the pulse number of monosyllabic calls was correlated with snout-vent length in L. ocellatus. These results indicate that the dominant frequency strongly contributed to species recognition of L. hainanus and L. ocellatus males. Acoustic properties reflected the signaler's body size in L. ocellatus but did not in L. hainanus. The difference in advertisement call characteristics between the two species may be due to the different reproductive strategies associated with different selection pressures and may promote the sharing of similar habitats by the two species.
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- Tongliang Wang
- Ministry of Education Key Laboratory for Ecology of Tropical Islands, Key Laboratory of Tropical Animal and Plant Ecology of Hainan Province, College of Life Sciences, Hainan Normal University, Haikou 571158, China
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- Ministry of Education Key Laboratory for Ecology of Tropical Islands, Key Laboratory of Tropical Animal and Plant Ecology of Hainan Province, College of Life Sciences, Hainan Normal University, Haikou 571158, China; Chengdu Institute of Biology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Chengdu 610041, China; College of Life Sciences, University of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
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- Chengdu Institute of Biology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Chengdu 610041, China
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- Ministry of Education Key Laboratory for Ecology of Tropical Islands, Key Laboratory of Tropical Animal and Plant Ecology of Hainan Province, College of Life Sciences, Hainan Normal University, Haikou 571158, China
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- Ministry of Education Key Laboratory for Ecology of Tropical Islands, Key Laboratory of Tropical Animal and Plant Ecology of Hainan Province, College of Life Sciences, Hainan Normal University, Haikou 571158, China.
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Morais AR, Siqueira MN, Márquez R, Bastos RP. Do male Boana goiana (Lutz, 1968) (Anura: Hylidae) discriminate between the calls of neighbours and strangers? BEHAVIOUR 2021. [DOI: 10.1163/1568539x-bja10082] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/19/2022]
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Neighbour-stranger discrimination is an important mechanism in social behaviour, as it allows the individual to avoid the high energetic costs of repeated agonistic interactions with neighbours. In some anuran species, the owners of territories respond more aggressively towards strangers than neighbours. Here, we investigated whether gladiator frog, Boana goiana, males discriminate between neighbours and strangers. This is a lek-breeding species; therefore, it does not defend fixed territories which are associated with a specific resource. We conducted a playback field experiment with a repeated-measures design, based on three treatments: (i) neighbour’s call in initial position, (ii) stranger’s call in initial position, and (iii) neighbour’s call in new position. We did not observe any systematic modification in the acoustic properties (call duration, dominant frequency, repetition rate) of the advertisement and short aggressive calls of B. goiana males given in response to our playback treatments. Our results indicate that B. goiana males do not exhibit vocally mediated ‘dear enemy’ relationships. We discuss the possible ecological and social factors that may have impeded the evolution of ‘dear enemy’ relationships in this species.
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- Alessandro R. Morais
- Laboratory of Vertebrate Ecology, Evolution, and Systematics, Goiano Federal Institute, Campus Rio Verde, Rio Verde, Goiás, Brazil
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- Faculty of Environmental Engineering, Rio Verde University, Rio Verde, Goiás, Brazil
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- Fonoteca Zoológica, Department of Biodiversity and Evolutionary Biology, National Museum of Natural History (Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales – CSIC), José Gutiérrez Abascal 2, 28006 Madrid, Spain
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- Department of Ecology, Biological Sciences Institute, Federal University of Goiás, Goiânia, Goiás, Brazil
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Awano H, Shirasaka M, Mizumoto T, Okuno HG, Aihara I. Visualization of a chorus structure in multiple frog species by a sound discrimination device. J Comp Physiol A Neuroethol Sens Neural Behav Physiol 2021; 207:87-98. [PMID: 33481121 DOI: 10.1007/s00359-021-01463-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/09/2020] [Revised: 12/22/2020] [Accepted: 01/05/2021] [Indexed: 10/22/2022]
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We developed a sound discrimination device to identify and localize the species of nocturnal animals in their natural habitat. The sound discrimination device is equipped with a microphone, a light-emitting diode, and a band-pass filter. By tuning the center frequency of the filter to include a dominant frequency of the calls of a focal species, we enable the device to be illuminated only when detecting the calls of the focal species. In experiments in a laboratory room, we tuned the sound discrimination devices to detect the calls of Hyla japonica or Rhacophorus schlegelii and broadcast the frog calls from loudspeakers. By analyzing the illumination pattern of the devices, we successfully identified and localized the two kinds of sound sources. Next, we placed the sound discrimination devices in a field site where actual male frogs (H. japonica and R. schlegelii) produced sounds. The analysis of the illumination pattern demonstrates the efficacy of the developed devices in a natural environment and also enables us to extract pairs of male frogs that significantly overlapped or alternated their calls.
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- Hiromitsu Awano
- Graduate School of Information Science and Technology, Osaka University, Suita, Japan.,Graduate School of Informatics, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan
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- Graduate School of Systems and Information Engineering, University of Tsukuba, Tsukuba, Japan
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- Institute for Human-Robot Co-Creation, Waseda University, Tokyo, Japan
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- Graduate School of Informatics, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan.
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Tumulty JP, Bee MA. Ecological and social drivers of neighbor recognition and the dear enemy effect in a poison frog. Behav Ecol 2020. [DOI: 10.1093/beheco/araa113] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/14/2022] Open
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Navigating social relationships frequently rests on the ability to recognize familiar individuals using phenotypic characteristics. Across diverse taxa, animals vary in their capacities for social recognition, but the ecological and social sources of selection for recognition are often unclear. In a comparative study of two closely related species of poison frogs, we identified a species difference in social recognition of territory neighbors and investigated potential sources of selection underlying this difference. In response to acoustic playbacks, male golden rocket frogs (Anomaloglossus beebei) recognized the calls of neighbors and displayed a “dear enemy effect” by responding less aggressively to neighbors’ calls than strangers’ calls. In contrast, male Kai rocket frogs (Anomaloglossus kaiei) were equally aggressive to the calls of neighbors and strangers. This species difference in behavior is associated with key differences in reproductive ecology and characteristics of territories. Golden rocket frogs defend reproductive resources in the form of bromeliads, which is expected to create a threat asymmetry between neighbors and strangers favoring decreased aggression to neighbors. In contrast, Kai rocket frogs do not defend reproductive resources. Further, compared with Kai rocket frog territories, golden rocket frog territories occur at higher densities and are defended for longer periods of time, creating a more complex social environment with more opportunities for repeated but unnecessary aggression between neighbors, which should favor the ability to recognize and exhibit less aggression toward neighbors. These results suggest that differences in reproductive ecology can drive changes in social structure that select for social recognition.
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- James P Tumulty
- Department of Ecology, Evolution, and Behavior, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities, St. Paul, MN, USA
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- Department of Ecology, Evolution, and Behavior, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities, St. Paul, MN, USA
- Graduate Program in Neuroscience, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities, Minneapolis, MN, USA
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Estrela MDN, Simões CRMA, Vieira GHC, de Araújo CB. Predicting the effects of noise on Anuran spatial distribution: the case of Scinax nebulosus. BIOACOUSTICS 2020. [DOI: 10.1080/09524622.2019.1618394] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/26/2022]
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- Matheus da N. Estrela
- Programa de Pós-graduação em Ciências Biológicas, Universidade Federal da Paraíba (UFPB), Joao Pessoa, Brazil
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- Programa de Pós-graduação em Biodiversidade e Evolução (PPGBioEvo), Universidade Federal da Bahia (UFBA), Salvador, Brazil
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- Programa de Pós-graduação em Ciências Biológicas, Universidade Federal da Paraíba (UFPB), Joao Pessoa, Brazil
- Departamento de Sistemática e Ecologia, Centro de Ciências Exatas e da Natureza, Universidade Federal da Paraíba (UFPB), Joao Pessoa, Brazil
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- Instituto Federal de Educação, Ciência e Tecnologia do Rio Grande do Norte (IFRN), Ipanguaçu, Brazil
- Programa de Pós-graduação em Ciências Biológicas, Universidade Estadual de Londrina, Londrina, Brazil
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Behavioral Responses by Adult Northern Leopard Frogs to Conspecific Chemical Cues. J HERPETOL 2020. [DOI: 10.1670/19-029] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/08/2022]
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Ota K, Aihara I, Aoyagi T. Interaction mechanisms quantified from dynamical features of frog choruses. ROYAL SOCIETY OPEN SCIENCE 2020; 7:191693. [PMID: 32269798 PMCID: PMC7137965 DOI: 10.1098/rsos.191693] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/26/2019] [Accepted: 02/27/2020] [Indexed: 06/11/2023]
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We employ a mathematical model (a phase oscillator model) to describe the deterministic and stochastic features of frog choruses in which male frogs attempt to avoid call overlaps. The mathematical model with a general interaction term is identified using a Bayesian approach, and it qualitatively reproduces the stationary and dynamical features of the empirical data. In addition, we quantify the magnitude of attention paid among the male frogs from the identified model, and then analyse the relationship between attention and behavioural parameters using a statistical approach. Our analysis demonstrates a negative correlation between attention and inter-frog distance, and also suggests a behavioural strategy in which male frogs selectively attend to a less attractive male frog (i.e. a male producing calls at longer intervals) in order to more effectively advertise their superior relative attractiveness to females.
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- Graduate School of Systems and Information Engineering, University of Tsukuba, Tsukuba, Japan
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- JST CREST, Tokyo, Japan
- Graduate School of Informatics, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan
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Brodie S, Yasumiba K, Towsey M, Roe P, Schwarzkopf L. Acoustic monitoring reveals year-round calling by invasive toads in tropical Australia. BIOACOUSTICS 2020. [DOI: 10.1080/09524622.2019.1705183] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/25/2022]
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- Sheryn Brodie
- College of Science and Engineering, James Cook University, Townsville, Australia
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- College of Science and Engineering, James Cook University, Townsville, Australia
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- Ecoacoustics Research Group, Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, Australia
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- Ecoacoustics Research Group, Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, Australia
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- College of Science and Engineering, James Cook University, Townsville, Australia
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Aihara I, Kominami D, Hirano Y, Murata M. Mathematical modelling and application of frog choruses as an autonomous distributed communication system. ROYAL SOCIETY OPEN SCIENCE 2019; 6:181117. [PMID: 30800364 PMCID: PMC6366160 DOI: 10.1098/rsos.181117] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/09/2018] [Accepted: 11/26/2018] [Indexed: 05/16/2023]
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Interactions using various sensory cues produce sophisticated behaviour in animal swarms, e.g. the foraging behaviour of ants and the flocking of birds and fish. Here, we investigate the behavioural mechanisms of frog choruses from the viewpoints of mathematical modelling and its application. Empirical data on male Japanese tree frogs demonstrate that (1) neighbouring male frogs avoid call overlaps with each other over a short time scale and (2) they collectively switch between the calling state and the silent state over a long time scale. To reproduce these features, we propose a mathematical model in which separate dynamical models spontaneously switch due to a stochastic process depending on the internal dynamics of respective frogs and also the interactions among the frogs. Next, the mathematical model is applied to the control of a wireless sensor network in which multiple sensor nodes send a data packet towards their neighbours so as to deliver the packet to a gateway node by multi-hop communication. Numerical simulation demonstrates that (1) neighbouring nodes can avoid a packet collision over a short time scale by alternating the timing of data transmission and (2) all the nodes collectively switch their states over a long time scale, establishing high network connectivity while reducing network power consumption. Consequently, this study highlights the unique dynamics of frog choruses over multiple time scales and also provides a novel bio-inspired technology that is applicable to the control of a wireless sensor network.
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- Ikkyu Aihara
- Graduate School of Systems and Information Engineering, University of Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305-8573, Japan
- Author for correspondence: Ikkyu Aihara e-mail:
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- Graduate School of Economics, Osaka University, Osaka 560-0043, Japan
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- Graduate School of Information Science and Technology, Osaka University, Osaka 565-0871, Japan
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- Graduate School of Information Science and Technology, Osaka University, Osaka 565-0871, Japan
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Chang C, Cheng YC, Lin SM. Influence of conspecific and heterospecific cues on phonotaxis behavior in a polyandrous treefrog. Behav Ecol Sociobiol 2018. [DOI: 10.1007/s00265-018-2593-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/28/2022]
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Simple observations with complex implications: What we have learned and can learn about parental care from a frog that feeds its young. ZOOL ANZ 2018. [DOI: 10.1016/j.jcz.2017.11.012] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/03/2023]
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Seshadri KS, Bickford DP. Faithful fathers and crooked cannibals: the adaptive significance of parental care in the bush frog Raorchestes chalazodes, Western Ghats, India. Behav Ecol Sociobiol 2017. [DOI: 10.1007/s00265-017-2420-3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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Alonso Bosch R, Rodríguez A, Quinta MH. Advertisement call variation and individual acoustic distinctiveness in the explosive breeding toad Peltophryne cataulaciceps (Anura: Bufonidae). Acta Ethol 2017. [DOI: 10.1007/s10211-017-0261-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/24/2022]
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Delia J, Bravo-Valencia L, Warkentin KM. Patterns of parental care in Neotropical glassfrogs: fieldwork alters hypotheses of sex-role evolution. J Evol Biol 2017; 30:898-914. [PMID: 28241390 DOI: 10.1111/jeb.13059] [Citation(s) in RCA: 41] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/10/2016] [Revised: 02/11/2017] [Accepted: 02/19/2017] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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Many animals provide parental care to offspring. Parental sex-roles vary extensively across taxa, and such patterns are considered well documented. However, information on amphibians is lacking relative to other vertebrate groups. We combine natural history observations with functional and historical analyses to examine the evolution of egg care in glassfrogs (Centrolenidae). Parental care was considered rare and predominately provided by males. Our field observations of 40 species revealed that care occurs throughout the family, and the caregiving sex changes across lineages. We discovered that a brief period of maternal care is widespread and occurs in species previously thought to lack care. Using a combination of female-removal experiments, prey-choice tests with egg-eating katydids, and parental disturbance-tolerance assays, we confirm the adaptive benefits of short-term maternal care in wild Cochranella granulosa and Teratohyla pulverata. To examine historical transitions between caregiving sexes, we assembled a molecular phylogeny and estimated ancestral care states using our data and the literature. We assessed patterns indicative of sex-specific constraints by testing whether transitions between the sexes are associated with changes in care levels. Our analyses support that male-only care evolved 2-3 times from female-only care, and this change is associated with substantial increases in care levels - a pattern supporting the hypothesis that male-only care evolved via constraints on maternal expenditure. Many groups of amphibians remain poorly studied, with emerging evidence indicating that care patterns are more diverse than currently appreciated. Natural history remains fundamental to uncovering this diversity and generating testable hypotheses of sex-role evolution.
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- J Delia
- Department of Biology, Boston University, Boston, MA, USA
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- Profesional Universitaria, Equipo Fauna, Corantioquia, Santa Fe de Antioquia, Colombia
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- Department of Biology, Boston University, Boston, MA, USA.,Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, Panamá, República de Panamá
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Lengagne T, Voituron Y, Gomez D. Male within-individual variability in a sexual signal component and its impact on female choice. Behav Ecol 2016. [DOI: 10.1093/beheco/arw120] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/12/2022] Open
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Valencia LB, Delia J. Maternal care in a glassfrog: care function and commitment to offspring in Ikakogi tayrona. Behav Ecol Sociobiol 2015. [DOI: 10.1007/s00265-015-2022-x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/22/2022]
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Seshadri KS, Gururaja KV, Bickford DP. Breeding in bamboo: a novel anuran reproductive strategy discovered in Rhacophorid frogs of the Western Ghats, India. Biol J Linn Soc Lond 2014. [DOI: 10.1111/bij.12388] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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- Kadaba Shamanna Seshadri
- Department of Biological Sciences; National University of Singapore; 14 Science Drive 4, Block S3 Singapore 117543
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- Centre for Infrastructure; Sustainable Transportation and Urban Planning (CiSTUP); Indian Institute of Science; Bangalore 560 012 India
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- Department of Biological Sciences; National University of Singapore; 14 Science Drive 4, Block S3 Singapore 117543
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Starnberger I, Preininger D, Hödl W. From uni- to multimodality: towards an integrative view on anuran communication. J Comp Physiol A Neuroethol Sens Neural Behav Physiol 2014; 200:777-87. [PMID: 24973893 PMCID: PMC4138437 DOI: 10.1007/s00359-014-0923-1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 73] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/25/2014] [Revised: 06/06/2014] [Accepted: 06/08/2014] [Indexed: 11/27/2022]
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Undeniably, acoustic signals are the predominant mode of communication in frogs and toads. Acoustically active species are found throughout the vast diversity of anuran families. However, additional or alternative signal modalities have gained increasing attention. In several anurans, seismic, visual and chemical communications have convergently evolved due to ecological constraints such as noisy environments. The production of a visual cue, like the inevitably moving vocal sac of acoustically advertising males, is emphasized by conspicuously coloured throats. Limb movements accompanied by dynamic displays of bright colours are additional examples of striking visual signals independent of vocalizations. In some multimodal anuran communication systems, the acoustic component acts as an alert signal, which alters the receiver attention to the following visual display. Recent findings of colourful glands on vocal sacs, producing volatile species-specific scent bouquets suggest the possibility of integration of acoustic, visual and chemical cues in species recognition and mate choice. The combination of signal components facilitates a broadened display repertoire in challenging environmental conditions. Thus, the complexity of the communication systems of frogs and toads may have been underestimated.
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- Iris Starnberger
- Department of Integrative Zoology, University of Vienna, Althanstraße 14, 1090, Vienna, Austria,
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Bee MA. Treefrogs as animal models for research on auditory scene analysis and the cocktail party problem. Int J Psychophysiol 2014; 95:216-37. [PMID: 24424243 DOI: 10.1016/j.ijpsycho.2014.01.004] [Citation(s) in RCA: 57] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/08/2013] [Revised: 11/10/2013] [Accepted: 01/01/2014] [Indexed: 01/18/2023]
Abstract
The perceptual analysis of acoustic scenes involves binding together sounds from the same source and separating them from other sounds in the environment. In large social groups, listeners experience increased difficulty performing these tasks due to high noise levels and interference from the concurrent signals of multiple individuals. While a substantial body of literature on these issues pertains to human hearing and speech communication, few studies have investigated how nonhuman animals may be evolutionarily adapted to solve biologically analogous communication problems. Here, I review recent and ongoing work aimed at testing hypotheses about perceptual mechanisms that enable treefrogs in the genus Hyla to communicate vocally in noisy, multi-source social environments. After briefly introducing the genus and the methods used to study hearing in frogs, I outline several functional constraints on communication posed by the acoustic environment of breeding "choruses". Then, I review studies of sound source perception aimed at uncovering how treefrog listeners may be adapted to cope with these constraints. Specifically, this review covers research on the acoustic cues used in sequential and simultaneous auditory grouping, spatial release from masking, and dip listening. Throughout the paper, I attempt to illustrate how broad-scale, comparative studies of carefully considered animal models may ultimately reveal an evolutionary diversity of underlying mechanisms for solving cocktail-party-like problems in communication.
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Affiliation(s)
- Mark A Bee
- Department of Ecology, Evolution and Behavior, University of Minnesota, 100 Ecology, 1987 Upper Buford Circle, St. Paul, MN 55108, USA.
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Loughry WJ, McDonough CM. Beyond Natural History: Some Thoughts About Research Priorities in the Study of Xenarthrans. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2013. [DOI: 10.5537/020.014.0102] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/03/2022]
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Pettitt BA, Bourne GR, Bee MA. Advertisement Call Variation in the Golden Rocket Frog (Anomaloglossus beebei): Evidence for Individual Distinctiveness. Ethology 2013. [DOI: 10.1111/eth.12058] [Citation(s) in RCA: 38] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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- Beth A. Pettitt
- Department of Ecology; Evolution and Behavior; University of Minnesota; St. Paul; MN; USA
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- Department of Ecology; Evolution and Behavior; University of Minnesota; St. Paul; MN; USA
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