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Published on: November 26, 2012
Reconstruction of vocal interactions in a group of small songbirds
Victor N Anisimov1, Joshua A Herbst2, Andrei N Abramchuk3
1Faculty of Biology, Moscow State University, Moscow, Russian Federation.
Abstract:
The main obstacle for investigating vocal interactions in vertebrates is the difficulty of discriminating individual vocalizations of rapidly moving, sometimes simultaneously vocalizing individuals. We developed a method of recording and analyzing individual vocalizations in free-ranging animals using ultraminiature back-attached sound and acceleration recorders. Our method allows the separation of zebra finch vocalizations irrespective of background noise and the number of vocalizing animals nearby.
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