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Researchers study acoustic communication in deep-sea fish
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Sep 24, 2008 |
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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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Feb 13, 2008 |
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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
Oct 14, 2008 |
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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
Sep 03, 2007 |
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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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Apr 03, 2007 |
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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
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Apr 13, 2007 |
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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 wavesin nanostructures
Jul 03, 2008 |
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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
Feb 26, 2009 |
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(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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Sep 03, 2008 |
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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
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Jun 06, 2007 |
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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, ...
Study shows computer programs can classify dog barks better than humans
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Jan 16, 2008 |
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Computer programs may be the most accurate tool for studying acoustic communications amongst animals, according to Csaba Molnar from Eoetvoes Lorand University in Hungary and his research team. Their paper, published in Springer's ...
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