SHORT NOTE Sex recognition in brown skuas: do acoustic signals matter?
Abstract Bird vocalisations are often essential for sex recognition, especially in species that show little morpho-logical sex dimorphism. Brown skuas (Catharacta ant-arctica lonnbergi), which exhibit uniform plumage across both sexes, emit three main calls: the long call, the alarm call and the con...
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ftciteseerx:oai:CiteSeerX.psu:10.1.1.629.3890 2023-05-15T15:47:02+02:00 SHORT NOTE Sex recognition in brown skuas: do acoustic signals matter? Hans-ulrich Peter The Pennsylvania State University CiteSeerX Archives application/pdf http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.629.3890 http://evolution.unibas.ch/scharer/research/publications/janicke_et_al_2007.pdf en eng http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.629.3890 http://evolution.unibas.ch/scharer/research/publications/janicke_et_al_2007.pdf Metadata may be used without restrictions as long as the oai identifier remains attached to it. http://evolution.unibas.ch/scharer/research/publications/janicke_et_al_2007.pdf text ftciteseerx 2016-01-08T15:22:32Z Abstract Bird vocalisations are often essential for sex recognition, especially in species that show little morpho-logical sex dimorphism. Brown skuas (Catharacta ant-arctica lonnbergi), which exhibit uniform plumage across both sexes, emit three main calls: the long call, the alarm call and the contact call. We tested the potential for sex recognition in brown skua calls of 42 genetically sexed individuals by analysing 8–12 acoustic parameters in the temporal and frequency domains of each call type. For every call type, we failed to find sex differences in any of the acoustic parameters measured. Stepwise discriminant function analysis (DFA) revealed that sexes cannot be unambiguously classified, with increasing uncertainty of correct classification from contact calls to long calls to alarm calls. Consequently, acoustic signalling is probably not the key mechanism for sex recognition in brown skuas. Text Brown Skua Unknown |
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Abstract Bird vocalisations are often essential for sex recognition, especially in species that show little morpho-logical sex dimorphism. Brown skuas (Catharacta ant-arctica lonnbergi), which exhibit uniform plumage across both sexes, emit three main calls: the long call, the alarm call and the contact call. We tested the potential for sex recognition in brown skua calls of 42 genetically sexed individuals by analysing 8–12 acoustic parameters in the temporal and frequency domains of each call type. For every call type, we failed to find sex differences in any of the acoustic parameters measured. Stepwise discriminant function analysis (DFA) revealed that sexes cannot be unambiguously classified, with increasing uncertainty of correct classification from contact calls to long calls to alarm calls. Consequently, acoustic signalling is probably not the key mechanism for sex recognition in brown skuas. |
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