... wren partners sing as a way of keeping track of one another when they are apart. But the duets, as pleasant as they may sound, also have a more sinister purpose. During confrontations with rivals, the ...
... insight into the motivating factors that drive breeding pairs of some tropical bird species to sing duets. Those duets can be so closely matched that human listeners often mistake them for solos...
... by Waseda University last year has been joined by a robot saxophonist in a Classical music duet. The aim of the project was to design robots that could respond to each other's visual and aural cues.
... the signal to one male or whether she lets a bunch of males come and compete, or whether there is any kind of dueting session during which she then decides: ‘OK, You’re my guy. Hop on my back and I’ ...
A species of Chinese frog has evolved an elaborate system of ultrasonic mating calls to circumvent its noisy hot spring environment, researchers say.
... images in ways that reduce or enhance their negative emotional intensity. "If our emotions are a duet played between the self and the environment, then our ability to regulate them keeps us in ...
Some mosquitoes attract mates with sophisticated love songs.
... their wings and change their tune to create a harmonic duet just before mating. Cornell entomologists have ... 600 hertz for the male," said Hoy.
The mating duet, generated just before the couple mates ...
Rather than compete for females, male long-tailed manakins pair up to perform their courtship song and dance.
... communal displays, many of them remarkable feats of complex coordination, the researchers said. One example is the duets sung by pairs of Peruvian warbling antbirds. So far, scientists have disagreed ...
It takes two to duet, and one question for scientists is how these coordinated performances arise — in birds.
... male cicadas by decoding the complex cicada mating duet and imitating a lusty cicada female. As soon as the male cicada gets in grabbing range, the duet becomes a lot less romantic.
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Two species of songbird in Peru have evolved almost identical songs to keep each other out of their territory, say scientists.
