Vocal traits of shorebird chicks are related to body mass and sex
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Bibliographic record
Abstract
Acoustic communication is critical during early life phases in precocial birds; for example, adult alarm calls can elicit antipredator behaviour in young, and chick vocalizations can communicate information to parents about chick identity, condition, location, sex or age. We opportunistically recorded Red‐capped Plover Charadrius ruficapillus and Southern Masked Lapwing Vanellus miles novaehollandiae distress calls of chicks while they were in the hand and analysed the calls to determine whether call structure is related to sex or body mass (a proxy for age). Our study provides the first evidence for charadriid chicks of (1) a sexual difference in call structure and rate and (2) gradual growth‐related changes in call structure and rate, across chicks. We provide a foundation for further studies of shorebird vocalizations during growth, which may elucidate the development and functional significance of such vocalizations.
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Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
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Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
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