Asymmetric Response to Heterospecific Songs in Two Sympatric Wrens (troglodytidae) in Argentina: House Wren (troglodytes Aedon) and Mountain Wren (t. Solstitialis).
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Abstract
Behavioral interactions among closely-related species are often asymmetric, with one spe- cies socially dominant over the other. Here we test for response to congeneric songs between two sym- patric species of Troglodytes wrens, House Wren, T. aedon, and Mountain Wren, T. solstitialis, which coexist in humid montane Andean forest in northwestern Argentina. We used reciprocal song playback experiments presented to territorial males of each species during the breeding season to assess their response to the opposite species. Troglodytes aedon sang more and approached the playback speaker closer in response to our broadcast of T. solstitialis songs than in response to control songs. Troglodytes aedon also sang more in response to T. solstitialis playback than in response to conspecific playback, while the minimum distance of approach did not differ significantly. In contrast, T. solstitialis sang less and were further from the speaker during both T. aedon and control periods relative to the minute preced- ing our experiments. These responses differed from responses to conspecific playback, where T. solsti- tialis sang more and approached the speaker closer in relation to controls. Our experiments suggest that T. aedon is aggressive to and dominant over T. solstitialis, occupying larger open areas along a gradient
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| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
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