Search Results - "Weissman, Yishai"
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The interaction between cortisol and testosterone predicts leadership within rock hyrax social groups
Published in Scientific reports (08-09-2023)“…Group movement leadership is associated with higher risks for those in the front. Leaders are the first to explore new areas and may be exposed to predation…”
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Social context mediates testosterone's effect on snort acoustics in male hyrax songs
Published in Hormones and behavior (01-08-2019)“…Testosterone affects physical and motivational states, both of which may strongly influence vocalization structure and acoustics. The loud complex calls (i.e.,…”
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Acoustic stability in hyrax snorts: vocal tightrope-walkers or wrathful verbal assailants?
Published in Behavioral ecology (04-03-2019)“…Vocal quality allows listeners to derive information on properties of the caller such as body size and state of arousal. Male rock hyraxes advertise themselves…”
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Sex-associated and context-dependent leadership in the rock hyrax
Published in iScience (15-04-2022)“…In many mammalian species, both sexes may take leadership role, but different traits may play a role in determining variation within species. Here we examine…”
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A crescendo in the inner structure of snorts: a reflection of increasing arousal in rock hyrax songs?
Published in Animal behaviour (01-08-2020)“…Acoustic and rhythmic temporal patterns may have important roles both in animal vocalizations and in human music. Male rock hyraxes, Procavia capensis,…”
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Lifetime changes in vocal syntactic complexity of rock hyrax males are determined by social class
Published in Animal behaviour (01-07-2019)“…The ontogeny of quality-based signals has been studied in numerous animal systems but the degradation of vocal signals with age has received much less…”
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Sexually opposite effects of testosterone on mating success in wild rock hyrax
Published in Behavioral ecology (08-11-2019)“…Abstract Although males and females share traits, their motivations and needs may be different, due to life-history disparities that lead to divergent…”
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