Male spacing behaviour and acoustic interactions in a field cricket: implications for female mate choice
Male spacing behaviour and acoustic interactions in a field cricket: implications for female mate choice
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10.1016/j.anbehav.2006.02.022
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2006-11-01
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2.5
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Balakrishnan, Rohini
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作者：
Mhatre, Natasha;Balakrishnan, Rohini
几种直翅目昆虫的雄性在空间和时间上形成结构化的合唱。我们调查了是否男性领域蟋蟀的物种Plebeiogryllus guttiventris形成合唱团在该领域。男性形成的空间聚集，并表现出忠诚的呼叫网站在一夜之间，形成稳定的合唱。在聚集，男性的声学范围重叠相当大。我们测试了在听觉范围内的男性是否会相互交流。同时呼叫男性的啁啾是失语的，相对于彼此，并没有表现出显着的交替或同步的呼叫。有些人改变了时间的功能，他们的呼叫歌曲，如啁啾持续时间和啁啾率，同时呼吁邻居。这些结果对女性择偶的影响进行了讨论。(c)2006年，动物行为研究协会。由爱思唯尔有限公司出版。保留所有权利。
Males of several acoustically communicating orthopteran species form spatially and temporally structured choruses. We investigated whether male field crickets of the species Plebeiogryllus guttiventris formed choruses in the field. Males formed spatial aggregations and showed fidelity to a calling site within a night, forming stable choruses. Within aggregations, the acoustic ranges of males overlapped considerably. We tested whether males within hearing range of each other interacted acoustically. The chirps of simultaneously calling males were aphasic with respect to each other and showed no significant alternation or synchrony of calls. Some individuals changed temporal features of their calling songs such as chirp durations and chirp rates in response to a simultaneously calling neighbour. The implications of these results for female mate choice are discussed. (c) 2006 The Association for the Study of Animal Behaviour. Published by Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.