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Re: Metabolic underpinning of animal communication?

Subject: Re: Metabolic underpinning of animal communication?
From: "Bernie Krause" bigchirp1
Date: Fri Jan 8, 2010 7:00 am ((PST))
...like correlating frequency and temporal niches critters must  
navigate in order to be heard.

Bernie


On Jan 7, 2010, at 6:20 PM, Aaron Ximm wrote:

> Interesting hypothesis!
>
> http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/01/100105195246.htm
>
> FTA: "Our results indicate that, for all species, basic features of  
> acoustic
> communication are primarily controlled by individual metabolism,  
> which in
> turn varies predictably with body size and temperature. So, when the  
> calls
> are adjusted for an animal's size and temperature, they even sound  
> alike."
>
> Not sure how to evaluate it, it would seem that there must be other
> contextual and environmental factors...
>
> aaron
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