Efficiency fosters cumulative culture across species

T Gruber, M Chimento, LM Aplin… - … Transactions of the …, 2022 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Recent studies in several taxa have demonstrated that animal culture can evolve to become
more efficient in various contexts ranging from tool use to route learning and migration …

Singing in a silent spring: Birds respond to a half-century soundscape reversion during the COVID-19 shutdown

EP Derryberry, JN Phillips, GE Derryberry, MJ Blum… - Science, 2020 - science.org
Actions taken to control the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic have
conspicuously reduced motor vehicle traffic, potentially alleviating auditory pressures on …

Hel** young children believe by exposing Asmaul Husna through learning media

R Zamzam, U Usmiyatun, S Suharsiwi… - Assyfa Journal of …, 2023 - journal.assyfa.com
Asmaul Husna is a practical way to study faith. The magnificent name of Allah, Asmaul
Husna, signifies his divine eloquence. The goal of learning Asmaul Husna is to teach …

Ecoacoustics: A quantitative approach to investigate the ecological role of environmental sounds

A Farina - Mathematics, 2018 - mdpi.com
Ecoacoustics is a recent ecological discipline focusing on the ecological role of sounds.
Sounds from the geophysical, biological, and anthropic environment represent important …

The effects of landscape urbanization on the gut microbiome: an exploration into the gut of urban and rural white-crowned sparrows

JN Phillips, M Berlow, EP Derryberry - Frontiers in Ecology and …, 2018 - frontiersin.org
Urban habitats present new ecological and evolutionary challenges for animals. Noise and
infrastructure often change behavior and community composition, with potential physical …

Acoustic adaptation to city noise through vocal learning by a songbird

DL Moseley, GE Derryberry… - … of the Royal …, 2018 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Anthropogenic noise imposes novel selection pressures, especially on species that
communicate acoustically. Many animals—including insects, frogs, whales and birds …

Do birds vocalize at higher pitch in noise, or is it a matter of measurement?

AA Ríos-Chelén, AN McDonald, A Berger… - Behavioral Ecology and …, 2017 - Springer
Studies have found that some birds use vocalizations with higher minimum frequency in
noisy areas. Minimum frequency is often measured by visual inspection of spectrograms (“by …

Urban sparrows respond to a sexually selected trait with increased aggression in noise

JN Phillips, EP Derryberry - Scientific reports, 2018 - nature.com
Animals modify acoustic communication signals in response to noise pollution, but
consequences of these modifications are unknown. Vocalizations that transmit best in noise …

Nests in the cities: adaptive and non-adaptive phenotypic plasticity and convergence in an urban bird

SA Bressler, ES Diamant… - Proceedings of the …, 2020 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Phenotypic plasticity plays a critical role in adaptation to novel environments. Behavioural
plasticity enables more rapid responses to unfamiliar conditions than evolution by natural …

Combined effect of anthropogenic noise and artificial night lighting negatively affect Western Bluebird chick development

DM Ferraro, MLT Le, CD Francis - The Condor, 2020 - academic.oup.com
Sensory pollutants such as anthropogenic noise and night lighting now expose much of the
world to evolutionarily novel sound and night lighting conditions. An emerging body of …