Neighbour recognition allows territory owners to modulate their territorial response according to the threat posed by each
neighbour and thus to reduce the costs associated with territorial defence. Individual acoustic recognition of neighbours
has been shown in numerous bird species, but few of them had a large repertoire. Here, we tested individual vocal recognition
in a songbird with a large repertoire, the skylark Alauda arvensis. We first examined the physical basis for recognition in the song, and we then experimentally tested recognition by playing
back songs of adjacent neighbours and strangers. Males showed a lower territorial response to adjacent neighbours than to
strangers when we broadcast songs from the shared boundary. However, when we broadcast songs from the opposite boundary, males
showed a similar response to neighbours and strangers, indicating a spatial categorisation of adjacent neighbours’ songs.
Acoustic analyses revealed that males could potentially use the syntactical arrangement of syllables in sequences to identify
the songs of their neighbours. Neighbour interactions in skylarks are thus subtle relationships that can be modulated according
to the spatial position of each neighbour. 相似文献
Objective: This article discusses the characteristics and injury patterns of serious road injuries (Maximum Abbreviated Injury Scale [MAIS] 2+ inpatients) in The Netherlands.
Methods: In The Netherlands, the actual number of serious injuries is estimated by linking police data to hospital data. The distribution of serious road injuries over (1) travel mode and gender and (2) crash type and age are compared for the years 2000 and 2011. Moreover, the distribution of the injuries over the body regions is illustrated using colored injury body profiles.
Results: The number of serious injuries is higher for men than for women and increased from 16,500 in 2000 to 19,700 in 2011. In 2011, about half (51%) of the serious road injuries were due to a bicycle crash not involving a motor vehicle. The share of casualties aged 60 years and older is relatively high (43% in 2011) in these crashes. The injury body profiles show that head injuries (31%) and injuries to the lower extremities (37%) are most prevalent. Compared to other travel modes, pedestrians and riders of powered 2-wheelers relatively often sustain lower-leg injuries compared to other travel modes. Head injuries are most prevalent in cyclists who are injured in a crash with a motorized vehicle. Cyclists who are injured in a crash not involving a motor vehicle and casualties of 60 years and older relatively often include hip or upper-leg injuries.
Conclusion: The characteristics of serious road injuries differ from those of fatalities and the distribution of injuries over the body differs by travel mode, gender, and age. 相似文献
In this research the factors used to evaluate the light transmission through two types of acrylic hydrophobic intraocular lenses, one that contained yellow chromophore that blocks blue light transmission and the other which did not contain that filter, were defined according to various light condition, e.g., daylight and at night. The potential influence of light transmission trough intraocular lenses with or without yellow chromophore on functional vision in everyday environmental conditions was analysed. 相似文献