Chorus males actively slot calls into silent gaps to reduce overlap
Evidence
In general the degree of overlap between calling males increases with the number of contemporarily calling males, but the level of overlap remains lower when compared with a random comparison. This observation means that males have the capacity to place their calls in silent gaps, reducing the masking effect of other males. — Almo Farina, Soundscape Ecology, 1685
Categorization
- XREF: connects to: Female preference for leading calls drives males to time against rivals — Almo Farina, Soundscape Ecology: Principles,…, 1689; Choruses paradoxically add self-masking noise while each male seeks signal — Almo Farina, Soundscape Ecology: Principles,…, 1648; Interrupted frogs widen note spacing but group chorusing raises interference sharply — Almo Farina, Soundscape Ecology: Principles,…, 479 (+3 more)
Broader Connections
- Simultaneous dawn singing makes male dyadic interaction hard to detect
#corroborates(0.82) — Almo Farina, Soundscape Ecology, 1671 - Humans can match durations of silence to sounds of similar length.
#corroborates(0.80) — Ville Pulkki, Matti Karjalainen, Communication Acoustics- An…, 1190 - Silence functions as an underrated conversational presence
#expands(0.75) — Gordon Hempton, John Grossmann, One Square Inch of Silence- One Man’s…, 1023