Publications by authors named "Juliette Linossier"
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- Bonding between mothers and their young is crucial for mammal survival and reproductive success, especially in environments where offspring may be confused with others.
- Researchers studied northern elephant seals and found that mothers can recognize their pups just a couple of days after giving birth, regardless of the mother's temperament or experience.
- Although a mother's overall responsiveness didn’t affect the pup's weight, mothers with consistent responses tended to wean heavier pups, highlighting the importance of maternal behavior on offspring growth and survival.
Bird songs are complex manifold acoustic signals serving two main functions: mate attraction and territorial defense. The way information is encoded in the song often reflects adaptation to proximate and ultimate constraints. Male blackcaps, Sylvia atricapilla, display versatile songs with two parts, a warble and a whistle, whose functions remain unclear.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFSkylarks inhabit open fields and perform an aerial song display which serves as a territorial signal. The particularly long and elaborate structure of this song flight raises questions about the impact of physical and energetic constraints acting on a communication signal. Song produced during the three distinct phases of the flight - ascending, level and descending phase could be subject to different constraints, serve different functions and encode different types of information.
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