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Formants provide honest acoustic cues to body size in American alligators

In many vertebrates, acoustic cues to body size are encoded in resonance frequencies of the vocal tract (“formants”), rather than in the rate of tissue vibration in the sound source (“pitch”). Anatomical constraints on the vocal tract’s size render formants honest cues to size in many bird and mamma...

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Autores principales: Reber, Stephan A., Janisch, Judith, Torregrosa, Kevin, Darlington, Jim, Vliet, Kent A., Fitch, W. Tecumseh
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Nature Publishing Group UK 2017
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5431764/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28500350
http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41598-017-01948-1