Temporal call changes and prior experience affect graded signalling in the cricket frog

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作者
Burmeister, S
Wilczynski, W
Ryan, MJ
机构
[1] Univ Texas, Inst Neurosci, Austin, TX 78712 USA
[2] Univ Texas, Dept Psychol, Austin, TX 78712 USA
[3] Univ Texas, Dept Zool, Austin, TX 78712 USA
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10.1006/anbe.1998.1033
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B84 [心理学]; C [社会科学总论]; Q98 [人类学];
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03 ; 0303 ; 030303 ; 04 ; 0402 ;
摘要
We investigated how male cricket frogs, Acris crepitans, alter their advertisement calls in response to broadcasts of synthetic calls that were either 'attractive' or 'aggressive'. The stimulus calls differed in temporal but not spectral characteristics. Male cricket frogs produced a more aggressive call when presented with the aggressive stimulus, indicating that they perceived the temporal differences between the two call categories. The direction and degree of temporal and spectral changes depended on the relative dominant frequency of the resident and opponent. If the resident's dominant frequency was initially higher than the stimulus frequency, the pattern of change in dominant frequency mirrored that seen for the temporal call characters. In contrast, if the resident's initial dominant frequency was below that of the stimulus, then the temporal and spectral changes were in opposite directions. Furthermore, stimulus order influenced whether males responded differently to playbacks of aggressive and attractive calls; males that received the aggressive call first produced more aggressive calls during the aggressive stimulus, while males that received the attractive call first produced similar calls in response to the two stimuli. This suggests that experience with different types of signals influences the subsequent calling behaviour of male cricket frogs. (C) 1999 The Association for the Study of Animal Behaviour.
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