Reconstruction of vocal interactions in a group of small songbirds.

Anisimov, Victor N; Herbst, Joshua A; Abramchuk, Andrei N; Latanov, Alexander V; Hahnloser, Richard H R; Vyssotski, Alexei L · Nat Methods · 2014

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Abstract

The main obstacle for investigating vocal interactions in vertebrates is the difficulty of discriminating individual vocalizations of rapidly moving, sometimes simultaneously vocalizing individuals. We developed a method of recording and analyzing individual vocalizations in free-ranging animals using ultraminiature back-attached sound and acceleration recorders. Our method allows the separation of zebra finch vocalizations irrespective of background noise and the number of vocalizing animals nearby.

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