Talk:Mating call

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Outline of Proposed Expansion into full page Overview Evolution of Mating Calls Selection on Mating Calls: Sexual Selection + Predator Avoidance Could perhaps add a section here which explains what the standing of current literature is about the purpose of mating calls ( for example, how some research suggests that female mating calls are important for use as social signals and mate selection). — Preceding unsigned comment added by Navinadgandhi (talk • contribs) 19:06, 2 February 2016 (UTC) Introduction to Call Mechanisms Speciation due to Differences in Mating Call Sexual Selection Maybe talk about how it is believed to have originated as a way to find mates, creating evolutionary incentive for most compelling songs? Searcy, William A., and Malte Andersson. "Sexual selection and the evolution of song." Annual Review of Ecology and Systematics (1986): 507-533. Mitani, John C. "Sexual selection and adult male orangutan long calls." Animal Behaviour 33.1 (1985): 272-283. Female choice Vocalizations - Daniel Birdsong - M. Konishi, Birdsong: From behavior to neuron Background Structure of a song Geographical differences in song repertoire among birds Frogs Plains spadefoot example (Pierce, J.R.) Tungara Frog Gridi-Papp Insects Moth (Nakana, Takuma, Syrlykke) Mechanical Calls Intro General example of using a body part to create sound for mating call - Crickets Hedrick, A.V., Crickets with extravagant mating songs compensate for predation risk with extra caution A. Hedrick, D. Perez, N. Lichti, J. Yew. Temperature preferences of male field crickets (Gryllus integer) alter their mating calls, http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00359-002-0368-9 Crickets rub their wings together females prefer longer bout lengths along with some stylistic preferences the properties of their mating call is affected by temperature Sonation - using examples from birds A. van Casteren, J.R. Codd, J.D. Gardiner, H. McGhie, A.R. Ennos. Sonation in the male common snipe (Capella gallinago gallinago L.) is achieved by a flag like fluttering… http://dx.doi.org/10.1242/jeb.034207 A. Freeman and J. Hare. Infrasound in mating displays: a peacock's tale, http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0003347215000391 Infrasound fluttering of wings - present in peacocks, hummingbirds Has intersexual and intrasexual significance Speciation due to differences in mating call Blair, W. Frank. "Mating call in the speciation of anuran amphibians." American Naturalist (1958): 27-51. Blair, W. Frank. "Mating call and stage of speciation in the Microhyla olivacea-M. carolinensis complex." Evolution (1955): 469-480. Fouquette, M. J. "Speciation in chorus frogs. I. Reproductive character displacement in the Pseudacris nigrita complex." Systematic Biology 24.1 (1975): 16-23. Boul, Kathryn E., et al. "Sexual selection drives speciation in an Amazonian frog." Proceedings of the Royal Society of London B: Biological Sciences274.1608 (2007): 399-406. Platz, James E. "Speciation within the chorus frog Pseudacris triseriata: morphometric and mating call analyses of the boreal and western subspecies."Copeia (1989): 704-712. Blair, W. Frank, and Murray J. Littlejohn. "Stage of speciation of two allopatric populations of chorus frogs (Pseudacris)." Evolution (1960): 82-87. Ryan, Michael J., Stephen A. Perrill, and Walter Wilczynski. "Auditory tuning and call frequency predict population-based mating preferences in the cricket frog, Acris crepitans." American Naturalist (1992): 1370-1383. Jones, Gareth. "Acoustic signals and speciation: the roles of natural and sexual selection in the evolution of cryptic species." Advances in the Study of Behaviour 26 (1997): 317-354.

Dyz30 (talk) 18:36, 22 October 2015 (UTC)

Suggested Revisions: 1) The intro can be strengthened. Maybe you could discuss which species it is usually observed in, whether it is usually performed by males or females, how mate calls differ from other types of calls or how they differentiate between the two, etc 2) I like how you made the distinction between vocalizations and mechanical calls. But you defined mechanical calls and not vocalizations. I think you should include a definition for vocalizations. Maybe you could include the definitions in the introduction or at least bring up the two different concepts 3) This might not matter, but in the subheadings I don't think it is necessary to keep using "in": "in birds" or "in mammals". "birds" and "mammals" should suffice 2) The "sonation" section shouldn't go in the middle of the animal examples of mechanical calls. I think it should be in the intro part of the mechanical calls header or the intro of the entire article 4) I like that you included the "Speciation due to mating call differences" section, it adds a lot of depth to your article 5) Because you mentioned mate choice in the intro I think you should talk about it more later on. And maybe speciation should be in the intro too since it is a significant part of your article — Preceding unsigned comment added by Sydelstan (talk • contribs) 07:24, 5 November 2015 (UTC)