BioAcoustica is a free, open repository of wildlife sound recordings from the Natural History Museum, London.
Taxonomic index of the BioAcoustica collection
Acoustic and biological measurements in the BioAcoustica collection
Recording annotations from ann-o-mate
The specimens that recordings are of, from the collections
Schönrogge, K.; Barbero, F.; Casacci, L.P.; Settele, J.; Thomas, J.A. (2017). Acoustic communication within ant societies and its mimicry by mutualistic and socially parasitic myrmecophiles. Animal Behaviour, 134: 249 - 256.
This review focuses on the main acoustic adaptations that have evolved to enhance social communi- cation in ants. We also describe how other invertebrates mimic these acoustic signals in order to coexist with ants in the case of mutualistic myrmecophiles, or, in the case of social parasites, corrupt them in order to infiltrate ant societies and exploit their resources. New data suggest that the strength of each antemyrmecophile interaction leads to distinctive sound profiles and may be a better predictor of the similarity of sound between different myrmecophilous species than their phylogenetic distance. Finally, we discuss the evolutionary significance of vibrations produced by specialized myrmecophiles in the context of ant multimodal communication involving the use of chemical and acoustic signals in com- bination and identify future challenges for research including how new technology might allow a better understanding of the study systems.
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Where the specimens that recordings are of were collected, not where the sound was recorded