Habituation as a mechanism of reduced aggression between neighboring territorial male bullfrogs (Rana catesbeiana)
Habituation as a mechanism of reduced aggression between neighboring territorial male bullfrogs (Rana catesbeiana)
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DOI：
10.1037//0735-7036.115.1.68
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发表时间：
2001-03-01
影响因子：
1.4
通讯作者：
Gerhardt, HC
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作者：
Bee, MA;Gerhardt, HC
领地动物对熟悉的领地邻居的攻击性通常比对陌生人的攻击性低。对邻居或其通信信号的习惯已经被提出来解释这种减少的相邻领土邻居之间的侵略。作者询问，领土雄性牛蛙（Rana catesbeiana）对邻居和陌生人之间的歧视是否可能是由于对来自邻近领土的模拟新邻居呼叫的声音通信信号的重复呈现的攻击性反应的习惯化。在3个现场回放实验中，作者发现了5个反应特征的证据，这些特征在操作上定义了习惯化。此外，侵略性的反应递减持续合唱之间的夜晚，具体到一个单独的不同属性的男性广告电话。作者认为，相邻的领土雄性牛蛙之间的攻击性降低可能是由于对新邻居的广告呼叫的长期，刺激特异性习惯。
Territorial animals often exhibit relatively lower levels of aggression toward familiar territorial neighbors than toward strangers. Habituation to a neighbor or its communication signals has been proposed to account for this reduced aggression between adjacent territorial neighbors. The authors asked whether discrimination between neighbors and strangers by territorial male bullfrogs (Rana catesbeiana) could result from habituation of the aggressive response to repeated presentations of the acoustic communication signals of a simulated new neighbor calling from an adjacent territory. In 3 field playback experiments, the authors found evidence for 5 response characteristics that operationally define habituation. Moreover, aggressive response decrements persisted between nights of chorusing and were specific to an individually distinct property of male advertisement calls. The authors suggest that reduced aggression between neighboring territorial male bullfrogs could result from long-term, stimulus-specific habituation to the advertisement calls of a new neighbor.