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ANIMAL COMMUNICATION I. DEFINED -PROVISION OF INFORMATION BY A SENDER TO A RECEIVER, AND THE SUBSEQUENT USE OF THAT INFORMATION BY THE RECEIVER IN DECIDING HOW TO RESPOND. SIGNAL: VEHICLE OF INFORMATION 1) MUST PROVIDE (POTENTIAL) BENEFIT TO SENDER AND THE RECEIVER -SO, AN OWL HEARING A MOUSE MOVE AND USING THIS SOUND TO LOCALIZE IT IS NOT COMMUNICATION -SOUND MOVEMENT: CUE, NOT SIGNAL -OWL HEARING: EAVESDROPPING, NOT COMMUNICATING II. SIGNAL COMPONENTS: SIGNAL CONTENT – WHAT DOES THE SIGNAL CONVEY? SIGNAL DESIGN – HOW IS THE SIGNAL DESIGNED TO BEST CONVEY THE CONTENT TO THE RECEIVER - SUBJECT TO SELECTION OF THE ENVIRONMENT AND OF THE RECEIVER BIASES

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Page 1: ANIMAL COMMUNICATION I.DEFINED -PROVISION OF INFORMATION BY A SENDER TO A RECEIVER, AND THE SUBSEQUENT USE OF THAT INFORMATION BY THE RECEIVER IN DECIDING

ANIMAL COMMUNICATION

I. DEFINED

-PROVISION OF INFORMATION BY A SENDER TO A RECEIVER, AND THE SUBSEQUENT USE OF THAT INFORMATION BY THE RECEIVER IN DECIDING HOW TO RESPOND.

SIGNAL: VEHICLE OF INFORMATION

1) MUST PROVIDE (POTENTIAL) BENEFIT TO SENDER AND THE RECEIVER

-SO, AN OWL HEARING A MOUSE MOVE AND USING THIS SOUND TO LOCALIZE IT IS NOT COMMUNICATION

-SOUND MOVEMENT: CUE, NOT SIGNAL-OWL HEARING: EAVESDROPPING, NOT COMMUNICATING

II. SIGNAL COMPONENTS:SIGNAL CONTENT – WHAT DOES THE SIGNAL CONVEY?

SIGNAL DESIGN – HOW IS THE SIGNAL DESIGNED TO BEST CONVEY THE CONTENT TO THE RECEIVER

- SUBJECT TO SELECTION OF THE ENVIRONMENT AND OF

THE RECEIVER BIASES

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ANIMAL COMMUNICATIONIII. CONTEXT

A. PARENT OFFSPRING

BEGGING IN CHICKS

-BEGGING SIGNALS HUNGER STATE (SIGNAL CONTENT)

-MORE ACTIVE (LOUD AND FREQUENT) GETS MORE FOOD

TEST: FLYCATCHERS BY OTTOSON ET AL. 87

-MALE OR FEMALE FITTED WITH CHIP THAT ACTIVATES RECORDING OF BEGGING UPON APPROACH

-PARENT WITH CHIP FED THE CHICKS MORE OFTEN THAN PARENTS WITHOUT CHIPS

-SUGGESTS THAT BEGGING COMMUNICATES HUNGER STATUS OF CHICK

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ANIMAL COMMUNICATIONIII. CONTEXT

A. PARENT OFFSPRING

DISTRESS AND HELP CALL IN CROCODILES

- EGGS ARE LAID IN NESTS THAT HARDEN

1. UPON HATCHING, YOUNG CROCODILE CALL FOR HELP TO BREAK FREE

2. WHEN THREATEND, YOUNG CROCODILES CALL FOR HELP

http://www.flmnh.ufl.edu/cnhc/potm-oct00.html

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ANIMAL COMMUNICATIONIII. CONTEXT

B. GROUP COMMUNICATION: RECOGNITION OF KIN IN A LARGE GROUP

e.g., RHESUS MACAQUES BY RENDALL ET AL. 96

-LIVE IN GROUPS-CAN INDIVIDUALS RECOGNIZE KIN BASED ON VOCALIZATIONS “CONTACT CALLS”-RECORDED AND PLAYED BACK RECORDINGS TO SEE RESPONSE-SIGNIFICANTLY RESPONDED TO KIN: QUICKER AND LONGER-SUGGESTS THAT CALL IS FOR RECOGNITION

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ANIMAL COMMUNICATIONIII. CONTEXT

B. DOMINANCE: AVOID CONFLICT

-FIGHTS CAN BE VERY COSTLY, SO ANIMALS

SHOULD EVOLVE SIGNALS TO AVOID

PHYSICAL FIGHTS – SIGNALS!

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ANIMAL COMMUNICATION

III. CONTEXT

C. PREY TO PREDATOR

1. GAZELLLE STOTTING REDUCES LIKELIHOOD OF CHASE & CAPTURE

SIGNAL OF GAZELLE CONDITION? BY FITZPATRICK AND FANSHAWE

SIGNAL INDIVIDUAL CONDITION

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ANIMAL COMMUNICATION

III. CONTEXT

C. PREY TO PREDATOR

2. UNPALATIBILITY OR TOXICITY POISON-DART FROGS (DONDROBATIDS)

PITOHUIS OF NEW GUINEA

Both groups have batrachotoxins, neurotoxins that cause paralysis.

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ANIMAL COMMUNICATIONIV. MODES OF COMMUNICATION IN VERTEBRATES

A. VISUAL: BASED ON COLOR AND BLACK & WHITE CONTRASTS

B. SMELL: BASED ON CHEMICALS (OLFACTORY SIGNALS)

C. SOUND: BASED ON DISTURBANCES OF A MEDIUM LIKE AIR OR WATER (AUDITORY)

D. TOUCH: BASED ON STIMULATING SENSORS ON THE SKIN (TACTILE)

E. ELECTRICAL: BASED ON CHANGING OF ELECTRICAL FIELDS

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ANIMAL COMMUNICATION

V. GENERAL OVERVIEW IN VERTEBRATES: PREDOMINANT MODES OF COMMUNICATION

1. FISHES: VISUAL, OLFACTORY AND ELECTRICAL

clown fish, Amphiprion ocellaris

Paracheirodon axelrodi (red neon tetra)

http://malawicichlids.com/index.htm

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ANIMAL COMMUNICATION

V. GENERAL OVERVIEW IN VERTEBRATES: PREDOMINANT MODES OF COMMUNICATION

1. FISHES: VISUAL, OLFACTORY AND ELECTRICAL

Trinidad Guppy (Poecilia reticulata)

• dimorphic – males smaller and colorful, females drab and larger

• native to Trinidad &Venezuela

females prefer colorful males

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ANIMAL COMMUNICATION

V. GENERAL OVERVIEW IN VERTEBRATES: PREDOMINANT MODES OF COMMUNICATION

1. FISHES: VISUAL, OLFACTORY AND ELECTRICAL

electric fish: fish that can perceive and create an electric field

Can generate100V to stun prey

Primarily used like a radar but also used in communication, especially mate choice

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ANIMAL COMMUNICATION

V. GENERAL OVERVIEW IN VERTEBRATES: PREDOMINANT MODES OF COMMUNICATION

1. FISHES: VISUAL, OLFACTORY AND ELECTRICAL

electric fish mate choice by

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ANIMAL COMMUNICATION

V. GENERAL OVERVIEW IN VERTEBRATES: PREDOMINANT MODES OF COMMUNICATION

1. FISHES: VISUAL, OLFACTORY AND ELECTRICAL

olfactory (chemical) signaling in minnows and pikes

FLATHEAD MINNOW BY CHIVERS AND COLLEAGUES

-WHEN MINNOW IS TAKEN BY PIKE, RELEASES CHEMICAL CUES

-ATTRACTS OTHER PIKE AND INCREASES HANDLING TIME – SOMETIMES ALLOW FOR ESCAPE (5 OF 13 IN THE EXPERIMENT DID)

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ANIMAL COMMUNICATION

V. GENERAL OVERVIEW IN VERTEBRATES: PREDOMINANT MODES OF COMMUNICATION

2. AMPHIBIANS: VISUAL, AUDITORY AND OLFACTORY

VISUAL – Poison dart frogs

two color forms of Dendrobates pumilo in Panama

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ANIMAL COMMUNICATION

V. GENERAL OVERVIEW IN VERTEBRATES: PREDOMINANT MODES OF COMMUNICATION

2. AMPHIBIANS: VISUAL, AUDITORY AND OLFACTORY

AUDITORY –

-males call out in Spring

-females prefer (approach) long calls

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ANIMAL COMMUNICATION

V. GENERAL OVERVIEW IN VERTEBRATES: PREDOMINANT MODES OF COMMUNICATION

2. AMPHIBIANS: VISUAL, AUDITORY AND OLFACTORY

AUDITORY AND VISUAL ARE NECESSARY!

e.g., Poison Dart Frog by Narins and colleagues

Is call and visible vocal sac necessary?

-just calls, no fake frog: approach, no aggression

-calls with various visual signals: see graph

*Need both sound and pulsating vocal sacto initiate aggression

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ANIMAL COMMUNICATION

V. GENERAL OVERVIEW IN VERTEBRATES: PREDOMINANT MODES OF COMMUNICATION

2. AMPHIBIANS: VISUAL AND OLFACTORY

OLFACTORY – SALAMANDER

Many salamanders use chemical secretion to mark territories and to attract mates

e.g., California Slender Salamander

-tested with moss with own chemicals vs. foreign

-more aggressive (ATR – trunk raised) and retreat

behavior when smelling foreign chemical

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ANIMAL COMMUNICATION

V. GENERAL OVERVIEW IN VERTEBRATES: PREDOMINANT MODES OF COMMUNICATION

3. REPTILES: VISUAL AND OLFACTORY

VISUAL – ANOLIS DEWLAP PUSH UP DISPLAYS – FENCE LIZARDS AND AUSTRALIAN AGAMIDS

THREAT DISPLAYS ARE USED TO DEFEND TERRITORIES

http://galliform.bhs.mq.edu.au/lizard2/

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ANIMAL COMMUNICATION

V. GENERAL OVERVIEW IN VERTEBRATES: PREDOMINANT MODES OF COMMUNICATION

3. REPTILES: VISUAL AND OLFACTORY

OLFACTORY – MARSHALL LIZARD

e.g. Lacerta monticola lizard by Martin and Lopez

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ANIMAL COMMUNICATION

V. GENERAL OVERVIEW IN VERTEBRATES: PREDOMINANT MODES OF COMMUNICATION

4. BIRDS: VISUAL AND AUDITORY

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ANIMAL COMMUNICATION

V. GENERAL OVERVIEW IN VERTEBRATES: PREDOMINANT MODES OF COMMUNICATION

4. BIRDS: VISUAL AND AUDITORY

VISUAL SIGNALS – VOGELKOP BOWERBIRDS

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ANIMAL COMMUNICATION

V. GENERAL OVERVIEW IN VERTEBRATES: PREDOMINANT MODES OF COMMUNICATION

4. BIRDS: VISUAL AND AUDITORY

AUDITORY – Song Sparrow

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ANIMAL COMMUNICATION

V. GENERAL OVERVIEW IN VERTEBRATES: PREDOMINANT MODES OF COMMUNICATION

4. BIRDS: VISUAL ANDAUDITORY

usually both, in a complex courtship

e.g., White-collared manakins in Central America

- complex dance, which involves rapid flight between samplings near ground- extension of elaborate and bright plumage- vocalizations (grunts)- snapping of wing feathers

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ANIMAL COMMUNICATION

V. GENERAL OVERVIEW IN VERTEBRATES: PREDOMINANT MODES OF COMMUNICATION

5. MAMMALS: VISUAL, OLFACTORY AND AUDITORY (ALSO TOUCH)

-BODY SIZE

-WEAPON SIZE

-PHYSICAL BATTLES

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ANIMAL COMMUNICATION

V. GENERAL OVERVIEW IN VERTEBRATES: PREDOMINANT MODES OF COMMUNICATION

5. MAMMALS: VISUAL, OLFACTORY AND AUDITORY

e.g., fallow deer by Clutton-Brock and colleagues-males aggregate in leks to attract females-groan rate correlates with mating success

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ANIMAL COMMUNICATION

V. GENERAL OVERVIEW IN VERTEBRATES: PREDOMINANT MODES OF COMMUNICATION

5. MAMMALS: VISUAL, OLFACTORY AND AUDITORY

experiment – men wore shirt for two nights in a row, and women were blindfolded and allowed to sniff shirts. Choose most attractive smell and relate this to MHC alleles

e.g., olfactory – Humans and MHC

results 1:

women not taking oral contraceptives: found disimilar males more attractive than similar males

women taking contraceptives: found similar males more attractive than dissimilar males

results 2: odors of MHC-dissimilar men reminded women of their ex- or current partners more often than MCH-similar males

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ANIMAL COMMUNICATION

V. GENERAL OVERVIEW IN VERTEBRATES: PREDOMINANT MODES OF COMMUNICATION

5. MAMMALS: VISUAL, OLFACTORY AND AUDITORY (ALSO TOUCH)

e.g., all four in wolves

howling: long-distance signaling to pack

growling: aggressive

whimpering: submissive

aggressive: teeth exposed, ears and hair erect

urine and chemicals from scent glands communicate territory

wolves reciprocally groom

pack mates – social bonds

submissive: ears tucked, body low

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ANIMAL COMMUNICATION

VI. SIGNAL DESIGN

HOW DO SIGNALS EVOLVE?

A. BASED ON ECOLOGICAL FACTORS

e.g., VISUAL SIGNALS

-ANIMAL SIGNALS HAVE TO CONTRAST THE

ENVIRONMENT (NOISE) AND BE CONSPICUOUS

-ENVIRONMENT SHOULD SELECT FOR SPECIFIC

SIGNALS THAT BEST FIT THAT ENVIRONMENT

(PART OF PROCESS CALLED SENSORY DRIVE)

-e.g., IN DARK HABITATS, MORE BRIGHT PATCHES

THAN OPEN HABITATS

Phylloscopus warblers of India

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ANIMAL COMMUNICATION

VI. SIGNAL DESIGN

HOW DO SIGNALS EVOLVE?

A. BASED ON ECOLOGICAL FACTORS

Karen Marchetti (UCSD) on Phylloscopus warblers of India

Number of Bright Patches Correlate with Lighting Conditions

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ANIMAL COMMUNICATION

VI. SIGNAL DESIGN

HOW DO SIGNALS EVOLVE?

B. BASED ON RECEIVER PHYSIOLOGY

e.g., Rodd and colleagues’ work on guppies

-Females prefer orange males

-But different populations have different degree of preference for orange and amount of orange in males

-guppies feed on orange fruits that fall to the rivers

-tested several different food types, most populations preferred orange food

-extent of preference for orange related to extent of preference for orange males!