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nonlinearity and fear hypothesis

Scope: general ecology
Papers: 5 | Mentions: 5

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Definition

Hypothesis that highly aroused animals produce nonlinear vocalizations because they lose control of their larynx over vocal fold production apparatus

Related Terms (3)

fear hypothesisnonlinearity hypothesisnonlinearity and arousal hypothesis

Publications (5)

article

Nonlinear phenomena in marmot alarm calls: a mechanism encoding fear?

2025Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society Btested
article

The sound of fear is heritable

2025Current Zoologytested
article

Social security: less socially connected marmots produce noisier alarm calls

2019Animal Behaviourframework
student_paper

Do birds differentiate white noise and deterministic chaos? A playback experiment.

2015tested
article

Scared and less noisy: glucocorticoids are associated with alarm call entropy

2012Biology Letterstested

Related Concepts (10)

nonlinear phenomena

phenomenon5 shared papers

alarm communication

process3 shared papers

acoustic entropy

measurement2 shared papers

social network analysis

framework2 shared papers

fecal glucocorticoid metabolites

measurement1 shared paper

Social Security Hypothesis

hypothesis1 shared paper

goodness of pitch

measurement1 shared paper

acoustic playback experiment

methodological1 shared paper

white noise

phenomenon1 shared paper

heritability

metric1 shared paper