Multimodal coordination enhances the responses to an avian duet

Paweł Ręk and Bob WongHandling Editor

Behavioral Ecology, 2018, vol. 29, issue 2, 411-417

Abstract: In many group-living animals, pairs sing together to cooperatively defend resources but such signals can be more complex than the acoustic component alone. In addition to songs, cooperating individuals may produce movements that can be precisely combined in many configurations, creating well organized audio-visual dances. Experiments with robot birds revealed that coordination of vocal and visual components of the Australian magpie-lark audio-visual display enhances the receiver’s responses to this complex signal.

Keywords: antiphonal duets; cooperative displays; magpie-lark; multimodal coordination; multimodal signals; robotic birds (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2018
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