The field of animal vocal communication has benefited greatly from improved understanding
of vocal production mechanisms and specifically from the generalization of the source–filter …

Song production in songbirds is a model system for studying learned vocal behavior. As in
humans, bird phonation involves three main motor systems (respiration, vocal organ and …

When animals live in cities, they have to adjust their behaviour and life histories to novel
environments. Noise pollution puts a severe constraint on vocal communication by …

As animals vocalize, their vocal organ transforms motor commands into vocalizations for
social communication. In birds, the physical mechanisms by which vocalizations are …

The following preface is the one that we published in Volume 1 of the Springer Handbook of
Auditory Research back in 1992. As anyone reading the original preface, or the many users …

One major feature of the remarkable vocal repertoires of birds is the range of fundamental
frequencies across species, but also within individual species. This review discusses four …

In little over two decades, researchers have moved from a situation in which most studies of
terrestrial mammal vocal signals focused on conspicuous characteristics, such as their rate …

Background Like human infants, songbirds learn their species-specific vocalizations through
imitation learning. The birdsong system has emerged as a widely used experimental animal …

Bats exhibit a diverse and complex vocabulary of social communication calls some of which
are believed to be learned during development. This ability to produce learned, species …

In songbirds, two sound sources inside the syrinx are used to produce the primary sound.
Laterally positioned labia are passively set into vibration, thus interrupting a passing air …