Vertebrate Sound Production and Acoustic Communication

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xvi

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2. Vertebrate Vocal Production: An Introductory Overview

   • W. Tecumseh Fitch, Roderick A. Suthers

   Pages 1-18

3. Fish Sound Production: Insights

   • Eric Parmentier, Michael L. Fine

   Pages 19-49

4. Vocal Sound Production and Acoustic Communication in Amphibians and Reptiles

   • Kaitlen C. Colafrancesco, Marcos Gridi-Papp

   Pages 51-82

5. Locomotion-Induced Sounds and Sonations: Mechanisms, Communication Function, and Relationship with Behavior

   • Christopher James Clark

   Pages 83-117

6. Embodied Motor Control of Avian Vocal Production

   • Daniel N. Düring, Coen P. H. Elemans

   Pages 119-157

7. Biophysics of Vocal Production in Mammals

   • Christian T. Herbst

   Pages 159-189

8. Infrasonic and Seismic Communication in the Vertebrates with Special Emphasis on the Afrotheria: An Update and Future Directions

   • Peter M. Narins, Angela S. Stoeger, Caitlin O’Connell-Rodwell

   Pages 191-227

9. Vocal Production by Terrestrial Mammals: Source, Filter, and Function

   • Anna M. Taylor, Benjamin D. Charlton, David Reby

   Pages 229-259

10. Vocal Learning and Auditory-Vocal Feedback

    • Peter L. Tyack

    Pages 261-295

11. Vertebrate Bioacoustics: Prospects and Open Problems

    • W. Tecumseh Fitch

    Pages 297-328

Although the fundamental principles of vocal production are well-understood, and are being increasingly applied by specialists to specific animal taxa, they stem originally from engineering research on the human voice. These origins create a double barrier to entry for biologists interested in understanding acoustic communication in their study species. The proposed volume aims to fill this gap, providing easy-to-understand overviews of the various relevant theories and techniques, and showing how these principles can be implemented in the study of all main vertebrate groups. The volume will have eleven chapters assembled from the world's leading researchers, at a level intelligible to a wide audience of biologists with no background in engineering or human voice science. Some will cover sound production in a particular vertebrate group; others will address a particular issue, such as vocal learning, across vertebrate taxa. The book will highlight what is known and how to implement useful techniques and methodologies, but will also summarize current gaps in the knowledge. It will serve both as a tutorial introduction for newcomers and a springboard for further research for all scientists interested in understanding animal acoustic signals.

• acoustic signals
• sonations
• vocal learning
• vocal production
• infrasonic
• biophysics
• Model vertebrates

• Medical Science, Jordan Hall, Indiana University, Bloomington, USA

  Roderick A. Suthers

• Dept. of Cognitive Biology, University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria

  W. Tecumseh Fitch

• Marine Biological Laboratory, Falmouth, USA

  Richard R. Fay

• College Park, USA

  Arthur N. Popper

Roderick Suthers is a professor in the Medical Sciences program at Indiana University Bloomington. He studies neural and physiological bases of acoustic behavior, particularly the neuroethology of vocal communication in birds and of echolocation in bats.

Tecumseh Fitch is an evolutionary biologist and cognitive scientist. He is Professor of Cognitive Biology at the University of Vienna.

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