AIMC Topic: Animal Communication

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Honeybee colony soundscapes: Decoding distance-based cues and environmental stressors.

Ecotoxicology and environmental safety
Honey bees play a crucial role in agricultural productivity and ecological stability, yet their interactions with environmental stressors, particularly volatile organic compounds (VOCs) and pollutants, pose significant challenges to their cognitive f...

Supervised learning algorithm for analysis of communication signals in the weakly electric fish Apteronotus leptorhynchus.

Journal of comparative physiology. A, Neuroethology, sensory, neural, and behavioral physiology
Signal analysis plays a preeminent role in neuroethological research. Traditionally, signal identification has been based on pre-defined signal (sub-)types, thus being subject to the investigator's bias. To address this deficiency, we have developed ...

Extended performance analysis of deep-learning algorithms for mice vocalization segmentation.

Scientific reports
Ultrasonic vocalizations (USVs) analysis represents a fundamental tool to study animal communication. It can be used to perform a behavioral investigation of mice for ethological studies and in the field of neuroscience and neuropharmacology. The USV...

Machine learning models identify gene predictors of waggle dance behaviour in honeybees.

Molecular ecology resources
The molecular characterization of complex behaviours is a challenging task as a range of different factors are often involved to produce the observed phenotype. An established approach is to look at the overall levels of expression of brain genes-or ...

Electric signal synchronization as a behavioural strategy to generate social attention in small groups of mormyrid weakly electric fish and a mobile fish robot.

Biological cybernetics
African weakly electric fish communicate at night by constantly emitting and perceiving brief electrical signals (electric organ discharges, EOD) at variable inter-discharge intervals (IDI). While the waveform of single EODs contains information abou...

Automatic classification of mice vocalizations using Machine Learning techniques and Convolutional Neural Networks.

PloS one
Ultrasonic vocalizations (USVs) analysis is a well-recognized tool to investigate animal communication. It can be used for behavioral phenotyping of murine models of different disorders. The USVs are usually recorded with a microphone sensitive to ul...

Female Choice Leads to a Switch in Oval Squid Male Mating Tactics.

The Biological bulletin
Oval squids are polyandrous, with one female mating with multiple males during the spawning season. There are two alternative male mating tactics used by Sepioteuthis lessoniana. Larger males place spermatophores at the opening of the oviduct using a...

A robotic system for researching social integration in honeybees.

PloS one
In this paper, we present a novel robotic system developed for researching collective social mechanisms in a biohybrid society of robots and honeybees. The potential for distributed coordination, as observed in nature in many different animal species...

A bio-inspired electrocommunication system for small underwater robots.

Bioinspiration & biomimetics
Weakly electric fishes (Gymnotid and Mormyrid) use an electric field to communicate efficiently (termed electrocommunication) in the turbid waters of confined spaces where other communication modalities fail. Inspired by this biological phenomenon, w...

Investigation of Collective Behaviour and Electrocommunication in the Weakly Electric Fish, Mormyrus rume, through a biomimetic Robotic Dummy Fish.

Bioinspiration & biomimetics
A robotic fish has been developed to create a mixed bio-hybrid system made up of weakly electric fish and a mobile dummy fish. Weakly electric fish are capable of interacting with each other via sequences of self-generated electric signals during ele...