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Bruno Gingras¹, William Tecumseh Fitch

¹Department of Cognitive Biology, University of Vienna, Althanstrasse 14, Vienna A-1090, Austria. bruno.gingras@univie.ac.at

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Anuran advertisement calls, analyzed using machine learning, reveal phylogenetic relationships. Acoustic features accurately classify species by genus, supporting the use of vocalizations in evolutionary studies.

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Area of Science:

Bioacoustics
Phylogenetics
Computational Biology

Background:

Anuran (frog and toad) vocalizations possess innate structural characteristics that may reflect their evolutionary history.
Closely related species are predicted to exhibit more similar advertisement calls than distantly related ones.

Purpose of the Study:

To test the hypothesis that anuran advertisement call similarity correlates with phylogenetic relatedness.
To evaluate the efficacy of various machine-learning algorithms in classifying anuran calls based on acoustic features.

Main Methods:

Analysis of advertisement calls from 142 anuran species across four genera.
Application of machine-learning models including logistic regression, support vector machine, K-nearest neighbor, and Gaussian classifiers.
Feature extraction using dominant frequency, coefficient of variation of root-mean square energy, and spectral flux.

Main Results:

Logistic regression models achieved over 70% accuracy in classifying calls by genus using acoustic parameters.
Support vector machine, K-nearest neighbor, and multivariate Gaussian classifiers demonstrated comparable accuracy.
Mel-frequency cepstral coefficients-based models showed lower classification performance.

Conclusions:

Low-level acoustic attributes are sufficient for efficient discrimination of anuran vocalizations among genera.
Machine-learning algorithms effectively utilize acoustic data to support phylogenetic hypotheses in anurans.
High-throughput analysis of animal vocalizations is validated as a tool for evolutionary research.