Geographic variation

A cultural atlas of vocal variation, yellow-naped amazons exhibit contact call dialects throughout their Mesoamerican range
Vocal dialects are a taxonomically widespread phenomenon which are typically only studied in a portion of a species’ range. Thus, it is …
Molly K. Genes, Marcelo Araya-Salas, Christine R. Dahlin, Timothy F. Wright
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Variación de la estructura del canto del Gorrión de Collar Rufo (Zonotrichia capensis) a lo largo de un gradiente urbano en el suroeste del Perú
Song plays a crucial role in bird ecology and behavior, and understanding the processes that alter the production and transmission of …
Rafael Montes-Rivas, Víctor Gamarra-Toledo, Evaristo López Tejeda, Marcelo Araya-Salas
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Individual signatures outweigh social group identity in contact calls of a communally nesting parrot
Despite longstanding interest in the evolutionary origins and maintenance of vocal learning, we know relatively little about how social …
Grace Smith-Vidaurre, Marcelo Araya-Salas, Timothy F Wright
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Social group signatures in hummingbird displays provide evidence of co-occurrence of vocal and visual learning
Vocal learning, in which animals modify their vocalizations based on social experience, has evolved in several lineages of mammals and …
Marcelo Araya-Salas, Grace Smith-Vidaurre, Daniel J Mennill, James Cahill, Paulina L. Gonzalez-Gomez, Timothy F Wright
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Variación geográfica y posibles mecanismos de evolución cultural en Microcerculus philomela
Investigué la variación del canto en una escala microgeográfica en Microcerculus philomela. Esta ave tiene un repertorio de canto único …
Marcelo Araya-Salas
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Is birdsong music?
The nightingale, the lark ascending; the cuckoo, the dawn chorus; since ancient times man has found beauty in birdsong. It appeals to …
Marcelo Araya-Salas
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Is birdsong music? Evaluating harmonic intervals in songs of a Neotropical songbird
Signals in animal communication are commonly judged as aesthetically appealing by human standards. This is particularly common for …
Marcelo Araya-Salas
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