Science news articles about 'playback experiments'

... mother croc to start digging up the nest. The new findings, made from a series of "playback" experiments, confirm what had only been suspected on the basis of prior anecdotal observation, according to ...

... overlap is sufficient to explain the coordination and complexity of communal signals. In a series of playback experiments, the team found that resident pairs of antbirds sing coordinated duets when ...

... had to train cat owners to record their own cats' cries. In a series of playback experiments with those calls, they found that humans judged the purrs recorded while cats were actively seeking food ...