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
Sismondo, E. (1990). Synchronous, Alternating, and Phase-Locked Stridulation by a Tropical Katydid. Science, 249(4964): 55 - 58.
In the field the chirps of neighboring Mecopoda sp. (Orthoptera, Tettigoniidae, and Mecopodinae)malesarenormallysynchronized,butbetweenmoredistantindividuals the chirps are either synchronous or regularly alternating. The phase response to single-stimulus chirps depends on both the phase and the intensity of the stimulus. IterationofthePoincaremapofthephaseresponsepredictsavarietyofphase-locked synchronizationregimes,incudingperiod-doublingbifurcations,incloseagreement with experimental observations. The versatile acoustic behavior of Mecopoda encom- passesmostofthephenomenafoundinothersynchronizinginsectsandthusprovides ageneralmodelofinsectsynchronizationbehavio
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Where the specimens that recordings are of were collected, not where the sound was recorded