<tt>Published in Behav. Ecol. Sociobiol., January 2004, 55(3)</tt><br>
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<pre style="margin: 0em;">Reproductive stage and phonotactic preferences of
female midwife toads
(Alytes cisternasii) p. 251-356
Jaime Bosch, Luz Boyero</pre><br>
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<pre style="margin: 0em;">J. Sueur
School of Biological Sciences
University of Bristol</pre><br>
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>From Thu, 08 Jan 2004 14:54:13 -0800
From: Harald Yurk <>
To:
Date: Thu, 08 Jan 2004 14:54:13 -0800
Subject: Help needed with evaluating spectrogram similarity
Message-Id:
I am writing to you today to ask whether you would be able to either do an
evaluation of spectrogram similarity and/or whether you know of anyone who
might be interested in doing so and perhaps would be so nice to forward this
message. I am studying acoustic call dialect similarities among killer
whale communities in the northeastern Pacific. The call dialects appear to
be learned and the degree of call similarity roughly matches both social
distance and maternal relatedness among groups within communities. The first
part of my study deals with dialect similarity among groups of
non-associating communities, the second one deals with the question of
whether dialect divergence is solely a product of drift (in this case
cultural drift) or whether selection (again cultural selection) plays a role
in the existing dialect similarity. To help me out you would need to go to
the following web site <a href="http://www.blackfish-acoustics.org/";
rel="nofollow">http://www.blackfish-acoustics.org/</a> and if you have a
moment do as many of the presented spectrogram similarity evaluations as you
can. Your participation in this evaluation procedure is greatly appreciated.
I am also interested in any comment you might have about the procedure and
the other context on the web site, but I already apologize for not being
able to respond right away to every comment I might receive. I will, of
course, respond to inquiries containing problems with the evaluations. I am
in total thesis writing mode and time is running through my fingers. Thanks
so much for your help and understanding.
Cheers,
Harald
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Harald Yurk
Department of Zoology &
Marine Mammal Research Unit
University of British Columbia
6270 University Boulevard
Vancouver, BC, Canada V6T 1Z4
phone: 604.787.4951
fax: 604.822.2416
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