Male spacing behaviour and acoustic interactions in a field cricket: implications for female mate choice

Mhatre, Natasha and Balakrishnan, Rohini (2006) Male spacing behaviour and acoustic interactions in a field cricket: implications for female mate choice. In: Animal Behaviour, 72 (Part 5). pp. 1045-1058.

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Abstract

Males of several acoustically communicating orthopteran species form spatially and temporally structured choruses. We investigated whether male field crickets of the species Plebeiogryllus guttiventris formed choruses in the field. Males formed spatial aggregations and showed fidelity to a calling site within a night, forming stable choruses. Within aggregations, the acoustic ranges of males overlapped considerably. We tested whether males within hearing range of each other interacted acoustically. The chirps of simultaneously calling males were aphasic with respect to each other and showed no significant alternation or synchrony of calls. Some individuals changed temporal features of their calling songs such as chirp durations and chirp rates in response to a simultaneously calling neighbour. The implications of these results for female mate choice are discussed

Item Type:	Journal Article
Publication:	Animal Behaviour
Publisher:	Elsevier
Additional Information:	Copyright of this article belongs to Elsevier.
Department/Centre:	Division of Biological Sciences > Centre for Ecological Sciences
Date Deposited:	04 Aug 2010 08:58
Last Modified:	19 Sep 2010 06:12
URI:	http://eprints.iisc.ac.in/id/eprint/30816

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