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Active sensing animals perceive their surroundings by emitting probes of energy and analyzing how the environment modulates these probes. However, the probes of conspecifics can jam active sensing, which should cause problems for groups of active sensing animals. This problem was termed the cocktail party nightmare for echolocating bats: as bats listen for the faint returning echoes of their loud calls, these echoes will be masked by the loud calls of other close-by bats. Despite this problem, many bats echolocate in groups and roost socially. Here, we present a biologically parametrized framework to quantify echo detection in groups. Incorporating properties of echolocation, psychoacoustics, acoustics, and group flight, we quantify how well bats flying in groups can detect each other despite jamming. A focal bat in the center of a group can detect neighbors in group sizes of up to 100 bats. With increasing group size, fewer and only the closest and frontal neighbors are detected. Neighbor detection is improved by longer call intervals, shorter call durations, denser groups, and more variable flight and sonar beam directions. Our results provide a quantification of the sensory input of echolocating bats in collective group flight, such as mating swarms or emergences. Our results further generate predictions on the sensory strategies bats may use to reduce jamming in the cocktail party nightmare. Lastly, we suggest that the spatially limited sensory field of echolocators leads to limited interactions within a group, so that collective behavior is achieved by following only nearest neighbors.

10aactive sensing10abioacoustics10agroup behavior10apsychoacoustics10asonar interference1 aBeleyur, Thejasvi1 aGoerlitz, Holger, R. uhttp://www.pnas.org/lookup/doi/10.1073/pnas.1821722116https://syndication.highwire.org/content/doi/10.1073/pnas.182172211602137nas a2200145 4500008004100000245008000041210006900121520158100190653001201771653002001783653000901803100002401812700002201836856013301858 2019 eng d00aPerception of Ultrasonic Vocalizations by Socially Housed and Isolated Mice0 aPerception of Ultrasonic Vocalizations by Socially Housed and Is3 a

It is currently unclear whether mice use their ultrasonic vocalizations (USVs) for communication purposes. It is also unknown if mice require previous experience with USVs to understand conspecifics. There is some evidence that experience changes the perception of juvenile USVs; however, it is unclear whether similar plasticity also occurs for adult USVs. To examine whether social exposure or deprivation throughout development leads to changes in USV perception, eleven female CBA/CaJ mice were trained to discriminate between 18 USVs of three different categories using operant conditioning procedures. Mice were group housed with four females or housed individually from weaning for the duration of the experiment. Socially housed and isolated mice differed in initial training times on pure tones, suggesting isolated mice had a more difficult time learning the task. Both groups completed USV discrimination conditions quicker at the end of the testing phases relative to the beginning. The overall discrimination of USVs did not differ between the two housing conditions, but a multidimensional scaling analysis revealed that socially experienced and isolated mice perceive some USVs differently, illustrated by differences in locations of USVs on the scaling maps from the two groups. Finally, a negative correlation was found between spectrotemporal similarity and percent discrimination, and analyses support the idea that mice may show categorical perception of at least two of the three USV categories. Thus, experience with USVs changes USV perception.

10ahearing10apsychoacoustics10aUSVs1 aScreven, Laurel, A.1 aDent, Micheal, L. uhttp://eneuro.org/lookup/doi/10.1523/ENEURO.0049-19.2019https://syndication.highwire.org/content/doi/10.1523/ENEURO.0049-19.201901876nas a2200205 4500008004100000022001300041245008800054210006900142260001600211520104000227653001401267653002601281653001901307653001801326653002001344653001701364100002001381700003601401856023301437 2018 eng d a0376635700aEvidence of individual discrimination in the maned wolf long-distance extended-bark0 aEvidence of individual discrimination in the maned wolf longdist cJan-12-20183 a

The acoustic channel is an efficient long-distance signalling system that may be especially effective for animals moving in the dark in a vast home range. The maned wolf’s extended-bark is a long-range vocalization that functions as a mechanism to increase spatial distance among conspecifics as well as to enable pair-mate reunion. Individual variations in this vocalization have been reported, but the possibility that they can be perceived and used by the species has never been tested. In our study, we used ABAB playback experiments to test if captive maned wolves could perceive individual variations. We ran 19 playback sessions with ten different subjects from six different zoos. After discarding nine sessions that did not fulfil minimal experimental conditions, in all except two of the ten valid trials, the subjects responded with displaying Oriented Attention. To our knowledge, this is the first demonstration that the maned wolf is capable of discriminating among extended-barks of different individuals.

10aacoustics10aChrysocyon brachyurus10adiscrimination10aindividuality10apsychoacoustics10avocalization1 aFlora, Balieiro1 aPatrícia, Ferreira, Monticelli uhttps://linkinghub.elsevier.com/retrieve/pii/S0376635718301906https://api.elsevier.com/content/article/PII:S0376635718301906?httpAccept=text/xmlhttps://api.elsevier.com/content/article/PII:S0376635718301906?httpAccept=text/plain