COCROFT, R. B.: Vibrational communication and the ecology of group-living insects I will review the role of vibrational communication in group-living, herbivorous insects (not including eusocial insects). Social behavior in these taxa includes parental care of aggregated offspring, as well as grouping among cohorts of immatures or adults. I focus on the ways in which […]

HILL, P.S.M.: Vibration and Animal Communication: a Review. Vibration through the substrate has likely been important to animals as a channel of communication for millions of years, but our literature on vibration in this context of biologically relevant information is a feature of essentially the last 30 years. Morphologists know that the jaw mechanism of […]

BROWNELL, P.H.*; VAN HEMMEN, J.L: Vibration Sensitivity and Prey-localizing Behavior of Sand Scorpions As burrowing, nocturnal predators of small arthropods, sand scorpions have evolved exquisite sensitivity to vibrational information that comes to them through the substrate they live on –dry sand. Over distances of a few decimeters, sand conducts low velocity (~50 m/sec) surface (Rayleigh) […]

SHADLEY, J.R.*; HILL, P.S.M.: Talking back: sending soil vibration signals to lekking prairie mole cricket males. The prairie mole cricket, Gryllotalpa major, native of the tallgrass prairie of the south central U.S., is the largest North American cricket. A male constructs a specialized acoustic burrow in the spring in the prairie soil from which he […]

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HUNT, R.E.: Mating behavior in leafhoppers and treehoppers: involvement of vibrational signals in male-male competition and female preference The evolution of communication systems is strongly influenced by the types of signals used by animals and the environment though which they are transmitted. For example, acoustic signals are transmitted rapidly over great distances and the environment […]

Narins, P.M.*; Lewis, E.R.: Good Vibrations: Seismic Signal Use by Fossorial Mammals Low-frequency seismic vibrations are known to travel across the surface of the earth, a medium relatively free from background noise. In recent years, seismic sensitivity has been recognized as an important sensory modality in fossorial mammals. Consistent with this idea, it has been […]

O’CONNELL-RODWELL, C.E.*; ARNASON, B.; HART, L.A.: Exploring the Possibility of Low-Frequency Seismic Communication in Elephants and Other Large Mammals As an elephant vocalizes with low frequency rumbles, a signal replica is propagated in the ground. Using seismic modeling, we estimated that the elephant rumbles that we recorded could potentially travel up to 16.7 km in […]

Lewis, E.R. R. Lewis; Narins, P.M.*: Do White-lipped Frogs Use Seismic Signals for Intraspecific Communication In the inner ear of a modern frog, the volume occupied by the saccule is approximately equal to that occupied by all of the seven other sensory endorgans taken together. Unlike that of any other terrestrial vertebrate, the sensory surface […]