A simple frequency-scaling rule for animal communication
A simple frequency-scaling rule for animal communication
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DOI：
10.1121/1.1694997
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发表时间：
2004-05-01
影响因子：
2.4
通讯作者：
Fletcher, NH
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作者：
Fletcher, NH
不同的动物使用非常不同的频率进行声音交流，我们可以合理地假设进化已经适应了这些频率，以便为给定的声音努力提供最大的同种交流距离。声学分析表明，最佳通信频率与动物体重的0.4次方成反比。与观测资料的比较表明，这一预测在实践中得到了很好的支持。对于给定类别的动物，例如哺乳动物，最大通信距离变化约为动物质量的0.6次幂。然而，由于不同动物物种在进化过程中对发声努力的重视程度不同，因此观察到的结果有很大的差异。(C)2004年，美国声学学会。
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. (C) 2004 Acoustical Society of America.