International Bioacoustics Council (IBAC)

Advances in Bioacoustics II

Selected papers from the XX International Bioacoustics Congress (Piran, Slovenia, 2005).

(All full papers – free download).

– Stink bug communication through plants during mating

– Entropy calculations for measuring bird song diversity: The case of the White-vented

– Differences between the auditory system of humans and Bottlenose Dolphins

– Teaching a musical code to a parrot: Frequency discrimination and the concept of rhythm in a Grey Parrot (Psittacus erithacus)

– Interspecific territorial vocal activity of the Ural Owl (Strix uralensis) towards Tawny Owl (Strix aluco), sympatric owl competitor: A playback experiment

– Social context and response to female voice: Audience effect in the male Zebra Finch (Taeniopygia guttata)

– Vocal imitation in African Savannah Elephants (Loxodonta africana)

– Acoustic features of Red Deer (Cervus elaphus) stags vocalizations in the Cansiglio Forest (NE Italy, 2001-2002)

– The animal sound archive at the Humboldt-University of Berlin: Current activities in conservation and improving access for bioacoustic research

– Fonozoo.com a new resource in the web for the study of animal sounds

– Acoustic website on European singing cicadas

– Acoustic playback: Contributions to the study of animal communication in the last 13 years (1992-2004)

– Software tools for automatically detecting, measuring and classifying animal sounds
Raimund Specht (Avisoft Bioacoustics, Berlin, Germany)

– Bird sound classification and recognition using wavelets

– De-noising aspects in the context of feature extraction in automated bird sound recognition

– Sound recording of vocal activity of animals inhabiting subtropical forest on Iriomote Island in the southern Ryukyus, Japan

– Acoustic behaviour in Malawian Cichlids (Pseudotropheus, Cichlidae): Potential cues for species recognition and intraspecific communication

– Individuality in the mating call of the male Lusitanian Toadfish (Halobatrachus didactylus)

– Cues to orientation of a caller to a listener in biphonic and non-biphonic close range contact calls in the Dhole (Cuon alpinus)

– The ocurrence of nonlinear vocal phenomena in frustration whines of the Domestic Dog (Canis familiaris)

Group and individual discriminability in monozygotic twins’ infant cry: A pilot study.