Deciphering the Function of Low-amplitude Songs: Courtship, Aggression, and Hormones

Friday, January 17, 2014 4:00 p.m. ETC 4.150 Dr. Dustin G. Reichard Department of Evolution and Ecology University of California, Davis http://www-eve.ucdavis.edu Across the animal kingdom, acoustic signals serve a variety of important functions in aggression, mate attraction, courtship, and alarm-related signaling. Previous research on the function of acoustic signals has focused predominantly on high-amplitude…