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      Acoustic communication in the Kittiwake Rissa tridactyla: potential cues for sexual and individual signatures in long calls

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      Polar Biology
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              Different animals use widely different frequencies for sound communication, and it is reasonable to assume that evolution has adapted these frequencies to give greatest conspecific communication distance for a given vocal effort. Acoustic analysis shows that the optimal communication frequency is inversely proportional to about the 0.4 power of the animal's body mass. Comparison with observational data indicates that this prediction is well supported in practice. For animals of a given class, for example mammals, the maximum communication distance varies about as the 0.6 power of the animal's mass. There is, however, a wide spread of observed results because of the different emphasis placed upon vocal effort in the evolution of different animal species.
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                Journal
                Polar Biology
                Polar Biol
                Springer Nature
                0722-4060
                1432-2056
                June 5 2007
                February 22 2007
                : 30
                : 8
                : 1027-1033
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                10.1007/s00300-007-0262-6
                d6b2937c-7bd3-4a0e-be20-693e2598f2d2
                © 2007
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