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Acoustic communication in insects and anurans

by H. Carl Gerhardt, Franz Huber

Animal communicationAnuraBehaviorInsectsInsects, behavior

Walk near woods or water on any spring or summer night and you will hear a chorus of frog, toad, and insect calls. How are these calls produced? What messages are encoded within the sounds, and how do their intended recipients receive and decode these signals? How does acoustic communication affect and reflect behavioral and evolutionary factors such as sexual selection and predator avoidance?

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