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
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Where the specimens that recordings are of were collected, not where the sound was recorded
| lab recording, 17.8.1990, 26°C (Kenwood KX880HX with AKG D202, tape S-MES90, tape no. KW32:16.00-20.00, microphone filter below 100 Hz) | 1:07 |
In contrast to all other European Leptophyes species, the male calling song consists not of single syllables (or very short echemes), but of a series of six up to 30 syllables (Ingrisch and Pavicevic 2012; Iorgu 2012a). The amplitude modulation of the echeme is decreasing with the loudest syllables at the beginning. The female answered after a fixed time interval after the beginning of the first syllable (=after beginning of an echeme). The female never answered to another syllable of an echeme, but only to the first syllable after a larger gap (interval between last syllable of previous echeme and beginning of the next, 817 ± 151 ms; n=10).