Individual identity coding depends on call type in the South Polar skua Catharacta maccormicki
In colonial birds, acoustic communication is essential for mate recognition. The South Polar skua (Catharacta maccormicki) lives in loose colonies and is highly territorial for feeding and breeding. We studied the potential of individual identity coding in the three main calls of the South Polar sku...
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ftsupagro:oai:HAL:hal-00173707v1 2024-06-23T07:52:05+00:00 Individual identity coding depends on call type in the South Polar skua Catharacta maccormicki Charrier, Isabelle Jouventin, Pierre Mathevon, Nicolas Aubin, Thierry Neurobiologie de l'apprentissage, de la mémoire et de la communication (NAMC) Université Paris-Sud - Paris 11 (UP11)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) Ecologie et Neuro-Ethologie Sensorielle (ENES) Université Jean Monnet - Saint-Étienne (UJM) Centre d’Ecologie Fonctionnelle et Evolutive (CEFE) Université Paul-Valéry - Montpellier 3 (UPVM)-Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique (INRA)-Centre international d'études supérieures en sciences agronomiques (Montpellier SupAgro)-École Pratique des Hautes Études (EPHE) Université Paris Sciences et Lettres (PSL)-Université Paris Sciences et Lettres (PSL)-Université de Montpellier (UM)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD France-Sud )-Institut national d’études supérieures agronomiques de Montpellier (Montpellier SupAgro) 2001-05 https://hal.science/hal-00173707 https://doi.org/10.1007/s003000100231 en eng HAL CCSD Springer Verlag info:eu-repo/semantics/altIdentifier/doi/10.1007/s003000100231 hal-00173707 https://hal.science/hal-00173707 doi:10.1007/s003000100231 ISSN: 0722-4060 EISSN: 1432-2056 Polar Biology https://hal.science/hal-00173707 Polar Biology, 2001, 24 (5), pp.378-382. ⟨10.1007/s003000100231⟩ [SDV.NEU]Life Sciences [q-bio]/Neurons and Cognition [q-bio.NC] info:eu-repo/semantics/article Journal articles 2001 ftsupagro https://doi.org/10.1007/s003000100231 2024-05-29T23:47:59Z In colonial birds, acoustic communication is essential for mate recognition. The South Polar skua (Catharacta maccormicki) lives in loose colonies and is highly territorial for feeding and breeding. We studied the potential of individual identity coding in the three main calls of the South Polar skua repertoire: the courtship, the contact and the alarm calls. We investigated parameters in both temporal and frequencial domains, i.e. amplitude modulation, frequency modulation and power spectrum density. For each parameter, the intra- and inter-individual variabilities were calculated. The ratio between these values represents the potential of individuality coding (PIC) of the considered feature. Low values of PICs for amplitude and frequency modulations show that both parameters may not be used for individual recognition. In contrast, high values of PIC for the power spectrum density indicate that the energy distribution among the frequency spectrum is likely to be an individual marker. PIC also varies according to the call type. Both courtship and contact calls have a higher potentiality of individual identity coding than the alarm call. The two former calls may allow individual recognition whereas the latter may not, and this last result can be extrapolated to many other species. Article in Journal/Newspaper Catharacta maccormicki Polar Biology Portail HAL Institut Agro Montpellier Polar Biology 24 5 378 382 |
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In colonial birds, acoustic communication is essential for mate recognition. The South Polar skua (Catharacta maccormicki) lives in loose colonies and is highly territorial for feeding and breeding. We studied the potential of individual identity coding in the three main calls of the South Polar skua repertoire: the courtship, the contact and the alarm calls. We investigated parameters in both temporal and frequencial domains, i.e. amplitude modulation, frequency modulation and power spectrum density. For each parameter, the intra- and inter-individual variabilities were calculated. The ratio between these values represents the potential of individuality coding (PIC) of the considered feature. Low values of PICs for amplitude and frequency modulations show that both parameters may not be used for individual recognition. In contrast, high values of PIC for the power spectrum density indicate that the energy distribution among the frequency spectrum is likely to be an individual marker. PIC also varies according to the call type. Both courtship and contact calls have a higher potentiality of individual identity coding than the alarm call. The two former calls may allow individual recognition whereas the latter may not, and this last result can be extrapolated to many other species. |
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Neurobiologie de l'apprentissage, de la mémoire et de la communication (NAMC) Université Paris-Sud - Paris 11 (UP11)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) Ecologie et Neuro-Ethologie Sensorielle (ENES) Université Jean Monnet - Saint-Étienne (UJM) Centre d’Ecologie Fonctionnelle et Evolutive (CEFE) Université Paul-Valéry - Montpellier 3 (UPVM)-Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique (INRA)-Centre international d'études supérieures en sciences agronomiques (Montpellier SupAgro)-École Pratique des Hautes Études (EPHE) Université Paris Sciences et Lettres (PSL)-Université Paris Sciences et Lettres (PSL)-Université de Montpellier (UM)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD France-Sud )-Institut national d’études supérieures agronomiques de Montpellier (Montpellier SupAgro) |
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Individual identity coding depends on call type in the South Polar skua Catharacta maccormicki |
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Individual identity coding depends on call type in the South Polar skua Catharacta maccormicki |
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Individual identity coding depends on call type in the South Polar skua Catharacta maccormicki |
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Individual identity coding depends on call type in the South Polar skua Catharacta maccormicki |
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individual identity coding depends on call type in the south polar skua catharacta maccormicki |
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ISSN: 0722-4060 EISSN: 1432-2056 Polar Biology https://hal.science/hal-00173707 Polar Biology, 2001, 24 (5), pp.378-382. ⟨10.1007/s003000100231⟩ |
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