普通长翼蝠福建亚种不同行为状态下回声定位声波研究

普通长翼蝠福建亚种为中国的地方性亚种。采用超声波监听仪和Batsound3 10软件对其回声定位声波进行录制和分析,发现回声定位声波为中等长度的FM型,伴有1～2个谐波,声波主频率为49 35±4 24kHz,一次完整声波的声脉冲时间为3 46±1 63ms,两次声波间的声脉冲间隔为96 09±33 84ms。分析表明,普通长翼蝠福建亚种在飞行和手持状态下的回声定位声波声脉冲时间均小于其悬挂状态,飞行状态下声脉冲间隔时间是各种状态中较小的,而飞行状态下回声定位声波的主频率则为所有状态中最高的,说明蝙蝠在飞行中要面临复杂的环境,辨别较多的障碍物,因此利用高频率声波进行回声定位,才能实现灵活复杂的飞行。     

人工神经网络在蝙蝠回声定位叫声识别方面的应用

近年来,人工神经网络被不断应用于野生动物的声学研究中,本文概括地介绍了人工神经网络的概念以及这项新技术的研究方法,并且重点介绍了它在蝙蝠回声定位叫声识别方面的应用。     

南蝠回声定位叫声的分析

蝙蝠科是翼手目中种类最繁多、分布最广泛、进化最成功的科之一 ,全球共有 42属 35 5种(Ｎｏｗａｋ ,1991)。该类群的大多数物种都以超声波回声定位来进行捕食 ,其回声定位行为的多样性以及捕食策略的多样性 ,一直都是动物生态学中的研究热点。南蝠 (Ｉａｉｏ)属蝙蝠科南蝠属 ,为单型种 ,主要分布于我国 (罗蓉等 ,1993)。它是蝙蝠科中体形最大者 ,以前对其生态学方面的研究非常少 ,而对其回声定位的研究则未见报道。南蝠捕食时的叫声与飞行及悬挂状态下的叫声的基本特征一致 (声谱图及谐波等 ) ,仅在叫声次数上有一定差异。因此本文将录制南…     

Food-associated calls in rhesus macaques (Macaca mulatta): II. Costs and benefits of call production and suppression

In field experiments, free-ranging rhesus macaques (Macaca mulatto)gave food-associated calls in 45% of the trials in which theywere presented with food, either monkey chow or coconut; theydid not call in control trials when sticks were presented. Consistentwith prior naturalistic observations, adult females called ina higher proportion of trials than adult males. Coconut, oneof the most highly preferred food items in the diet, eliciteddifferent call types and a higher rate of calling from "discoverers"than did chow. The call types produced to coconut (warbles,harmonic arches, and chirps) were primarily those that, undernonexperimental conditions, were associated with relativelyrare and preferred foods. In contrast, coos and grunts wereprimarily produced in response to chow. The relative hungerlevel of the discoverer had no significant effect on the calltype produced but did affect the rate of call production; discovererscalled at higher rates when they were hungry. Upon hearing food-associatedcalls, individuals within the vicinity of the discovery respondedby rapidly approaching the caller. A larger number of individualsapproached when discoverers called than when they did not. Discovererswho failed to call received significantly more aggression fromgroup members and, in the case of females, actually consumedless food than discoverers who called. The probability of receivingaggression did not appear to be associated with the discoverer'sdominance rank. Results suggest that food-associated calls are"honest" signals reflecting food possession. Those who failto signal and are caught with food are apparently punished.     

ALLOZYME AND ADVERTISEMENT CALL VARIATION IN THE TÚNGARA FROG,PHYSALAEMUS PUSTULOSUS

We analyzed variation in advertisement calls and allozymes in 30 populations along a 5000-km transect throughout most of the range of the túngara frog, Physalaemus pustulosus. All 12 call variables measured show significant differences among populations despite the importance of the advertisement call in species recognition. Some call variables exhibited clinal variation, whereas most others differed between the two major allozyme groups that have invaded Panama at different times, perhaps 4–4.5 million yr apart. Call variables that primarily affect discrimination among conspecifics tended to exhibit greater variation than call variables that are crucial for species recognition. The proximate mechanism of production underlying a call variable, however, is a better predictor of its variation. Contrary to predictions of some sexual selection models, call variation exhibits predictable patterns of geographical variation, although a substantial portion of variation among populations is not explained by geographic position. Although allozymes, calls, and geography usually covary, closer populations can have more similar calls independent of allozyme similarity.     

Distress Calls of Birds in a Neotropical Cloud Forest1

Distress calls are loud, harsh calls given by some species of birds when they are captured by a predator or handled by humans. We recorded the frequency of distress calls and struggling behavior in 40 species of birds captured in mist nets during the dry season in a Costa Rica cloud forest. We tested the following hypotheses proposed to explain the function of distress calls: (1) calling for help from kin or reciprocal altruists; (2) warning kin; (3) eliciting mobbing behavior; (4) startling the predator; and (5) distracting the predator through attraction of additional predators. Our results did not support the calling‐for‐help, warning kin, or mobbing hypotheses. Indeed, genera that regularly occurred with kin or in flocks were not more likely to call than non‐flocking genera. There was no relationship between calling frequency and struggling behavior as predicted by the predator startle hypothesis. Genera of larger birds tended to call more than smaller birds, providing some support for both the predator distraction hypothesis and predator startle hypotheses. Calls of higher amplitude may be more effective in startling the predator. Distress calls of larger birds may also travel greater distances than those of smaller birds, supporting the predator manipulation hypothesis, but this requires further testing.     

Towards the automated detection and occupancy estimation of primates using passive acoustic monitoring

Recent advancements in technology have made possible the use of novel, cost-efficient biomonitoring techniques which facilitate monitoring animal populations at larger spatial and temporal scales. Here, we investigated using passive acoustic monitoring (PAM) for wild primate populations living in the forest of Taï National Park, Côte d’Ivoire. We assessed the potential of using a customized algorithm for the automated detection of multiple primate species to obtain reliable estimates of species occurrence from acoustic data. First, we applied the algorithm on continuous rainforest recordings collected using autonomous recording units (ARUs) to detect and classify three sound signals: chimpanzee buttress drumming, and the loud calls of the diana and king colobus monkey. Using an occupancy modelling approach we then investigated to what extent the automated, probabilistic output needs to be listened to, and thus manually cleaned, by a human expert, to approach occupancy probabilities derived from ARU data fully verified by a human. To do this we explored the robustness of occupancy probability estimates by simulating ARU datasets with various degrees of cleaning for false positives and false negative detections. We further validated the approach by comparing it to data collected by human observers on point transects located within the same study area. Our study demonstrates that occurrence estimates from ARU data, combined with automated processing methods such as our algorithm, can provide results comparable to data collected by humans and require less effort. We show that occupancy probabilities are quite robust to cleaning effort, particularly when occurrence is high, and suggest that for some species even naïve occupancy, as derived from ARU data without any cleaning, could provide a quick and reliable indicator to guide monitoring efforts. We found detection probabilities to be most influenced by time of day for chimpanzee drums while temperature and, likely, poaching pressure, affected detection of diana monkey loud calls. None of the covariates investigated appeared to have strongly affected king colobus loud call detection. Finally, we conclude that the semi-automated approach presented here could be used as an early-warning system for poaching activity and suggest additional techniques for improving its performance.     

Contact calls of common marmosets (Callithrix jacchus): influence of age of caller on antiphonal calling and other vocal responses

Marmosets, as do many other primates, live in forest environments, are group living and constantly at risk of predation. Retaining contact with one another is therefore a matter of survival. We ask here whether their contact calls (phee and twitter vocalizations) are in some way ordered acoustically by sex or age and whether the calls of older marmosets elicit different responses than those of younger marmosets. In our study, marmosets (2–14 years) were visually isolated from conspecifics and the vocal responses to each isolated caller by other marmosets in the colony were recorded. Vocal responses to phee calls largely consisted of phee calls and, less commonly, twitter calls. No differences between the responses to calls by males and females were apparent. However, we found a strong positive and significant correlation between the caller's age and the percentage of its phee calls receiving a phee response, and a significant negative correlation between the caller's age and the percentage of its phee calls receiving a twitter response. The older the marmoset, the more antiphonal calling occurred. Two‐syllable phee calls were emitted more often by older marmosets (10–14 years) than by younger ones (2–6 years). Hence, we have found age‐dependent differences in phee‐call production and a consistent change in the response received across the adult life‐span. This age‐dependent effect was independent of kinship relations. This is the first evidence that marmosets distinguish age by vocal parameters alone and make social decisions based on age. Am. J. Primatol. 71:165–170, 2009. © 2008 Wiley‐Liss, Inc.