Birdsong has been the subject of broad research from a variety of sub‐disciplines and has
taught us much about the evolution, function, and mechanisms driving animal …

Organisms filter the complexity of natural stimuli through their individual sensory and
perceptual systems. Such perceptual filtering is particularly important for social stimuli. A …

Emotions are important because they enable the selection of appropriate behavioural
decisions in response to external or internal events. Techniques for understanding and …

Anthropogenic noise is a major pollutant for organisms that live in urban areas. City birds
modify their songs in ways that can increase their communication potential in spite of noise …

The study of animal personality variation promises to provide significant new insight into the
way that behavior evolves in animals, along with its ecological and evolutionary influences …

Vocal signals, including human speech and birdsong, are produced by complicated,
precisely coordinated body movements, whose execution is fitness-determining in resource …

Studying vocal correlates of emotions is important to provide a better understanding of the
evolution of emotion expression through cross-species comparisons. Emotions are …

Vocal signals such as calls play a crucial role for survival and successful reproduction,
especially in group-living animals. However, call interactions and call dynamics within …

Highlights•Birds have impressive temporal sensitivity to auditory stimuli.•Zebra finches have
particularly good sensitivity to temporal fine structure.•The communicative potential of fine …

Emotions guide behavioural decisions in response to events or stimuli of importance for the
organism, and thus, are an important component of an animal's life. Communicating …