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Researchers study acoustic communication in deep-sea fish

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created Sep 24, 2008 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

An international research team studying sound production in deep-sea fishes has found that cusk-eels use several sets of muscles to produce sound that plays a prominent role in male mating calls.





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Singing in the rainforest: Public vs. private signaling by a tropical rainforest bird

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created Feb 13, 2008 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

According to the Chinese proverb, a bird sings because it has a song, not because it has an answer. A team of French and Brazilian researchers, however, may have the answer as to how the song of Brazilian white-browed warbler ...


New research suggests changes in underwater data communications

Technology / Engineering

created Oct 14, 2008 | popularity 3 / 5 (2) | comments 0

An NJIT professor, who has discovered new communication channels in underwater environments and invented a technique to communicate data through these channels, will be honored later this month by the New Jersey Inventors ...


Undersea WiFi can be made faster, says researcher

Technology / Telecom

created Sep 03, 2007 | popularity 4 / 5 (20) | comments 0

As the United States and Canada take their first step toward establishing a cabled ocean observatory, a University of Missouri-Rolla researcher is trying to improve the speed of wireless underwater communication.


Male owls pitch their hoots to advertise body weight to competitors

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created Apr 03, 2007 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Why do male owls hoot? Researchers from the Centre d'Études Biologiques de Chizé (France) and the University of Sussex (UK) have studied the vocal communication of male European Scops owls, one of the smallest living species ...


How male owls pitch their wits to show who’s who

How male owls pitch their wits to show who’s who

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created Apr 13, 2007 | popularity 4 / 5 (7) | comments 0

A male owl's hoot may not be all it seems to rivals when it comes to defending valuable territory, new research has revealed.


Visualizing atomic-scale acoustic waves in nanostructures

Visualizing atomic-scale acoustic wavesin nanostructures

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Jul 03, 2008 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (13) | comments 0

Acoustic waves play many everyday roles - from communication between people to ultrasound imaging. Now the highest frequency acoustic waves in materials, with nearly atomic-scale wavelengths, promise to be ...


Good vibrations: Devices aid the deaf by translating sound waves to vibrations

Good vibrations: Devices aid the deaf by translating sound waves to vibrations

Technology / Engineering

created Feb 26, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Lip reading is a critical means of communication for many deaf people, but it has a drawback: Certain consonants (for example, p and b) can be nearly impossible to distinguish by sight alone.


Honest lovers? Fallow buck groans reveal their status and size during the rut

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created Sep 03, 2008 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (4) | comments 0

It is known that the phonic structure of calls produced by males during the breeding season may signal quality-related characteristics in many different types of animals. Previous research on mammals has mainly focussed on ...


Why female deer like a stag to be a big noise in the forest

Why female deer like a stag to be a big noise in the forest

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created Jun 06, 2007 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Impressive antlers may be the most eye-catching attribute of the male red deer, but it's the quality of a stag's mating call that attracts the female of the species, a new study from the University of Sussex, ...


Researchers Use New Acoustic Tools to Study Marine Mammals and Fish

Researchers Use New Acoustic Tools to Study Marine Mammals and Fish

Biology / Ecology

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(PhysOrg.com) -- Over the past decade, researchers have developed a variety of reliable real-time and archival instruments to study sounds made or heard by marine mammals and fish. These new sensors are now ...



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