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Multimedia

Below are multimedia aids for download on some of our research topics. More to come:


I. Tungara Frog Calls

sonograms and waveforms of tungara frog call complexity series.

wave file of the same calls illustrated in the figure above.

 

II. Blood-Sucking Flies and Frog Calls

 

Tungara Frog

(see Bernal et al. 2006, Behav Ecol for details on Publication Web Page)

(1) video of calling tungara frogs and blood-sucking flies.

(2) yet another video of calling tungara frogs and blood-sucking flies.

III. Frog-Eating Bats and Frog Calls

(see Page & Ryan, 2005, Proc Royal Soc on Publication Web Page for details)

(1) video of  response of a naive frog-eating bat to calls of marine toads followed by calls of tungara frogs.

(2) video of response of a conditioned frog-eating bat to calls of tungara frogs followed by calls of marine toads. 

(3) various videos of frog-eating bats catching tungara frogs:
bat-frog close3, bat-frog close2, bat-frog close5, bat-frog slo-mo

IV. Robofrogs

robos

(1) Windows Media video of a female tungara frog approach a robofrog.

 

 

 

 

V. Tungara Frog Phonotaxis Trial

(1) Quick time video of a female tungara frog showing phonotaxis to a frog call.

(2) Windows Media video of a female tungara frog showing phonotaxis to a frog call.

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