Courtship
- Behavioural responses to video and live presentations of females reveal a dissociation between performance and motivational aspects of birdsong
Summary: Zebra finches are less motivated to court videos of females than live females, but courtship songs to these stimuli are similar in performance, suggesting a dissociation between motivation and performance.
- Lizards assess complex social signals by lateralizing colour but not motion detection
Summary: Multicomponent social signals are analysed separately in the two brain hemispheres in lizards wherein laterality is observed in response to social colour stimuli but not in response to motion stimuli.
- Motor and mechanical bases of the courtship call of the male treehopper Umbonia crassicornis
Summary: Male treehoppers make use of the natural resonance of their abdomens when they generate their courtship vibrational signals.