Sentences with phrase «song dialects»

This sparrow is a commonly studied by those interested in vocal learning and song dialects in birds.

Cultural and genetic evolution in mountain white - crowned sparrows: song dialects are associated with population structure.

However, evidence linking specific local adaptations — beyond acoustic adaptation — with song dialects is lacking [9].

Finally, the local adaptation hypothesis suggests that individuals locally adapted to their environment may experience limited movement, and over time female preference for local males may produce divergence in song, creating different song dialects within a species [12,13].

The acoustic adaptation hypothesis suggests that song dialects or geographical variation in song may arise as a result of changes in the environment affecting signal transmission [10].

While song dialects or geographical variation in song within a species allow for identification of locally suited individuals, there are several mechanisms by which such variation could arise.

Sampling song from males at high and low elevations from two different mountains allowed us to (i) assess the presence of any differences in song structure at different elevations and (ii) consider the potential mechanism generating variation or song dialects on a small spatial scale.

Geographical variation in song dialect may reflect acoustic adaptation to different environments and / or serve as a signal of local adaptation.

Not exact matches

What made St. Francis so influential was his extraordinary originality: the son of a rich businessman who renounced his wealth and slept in pigstys while retaining the courtliness and gentility that were noble attributes of his era; the anti-establishment figure who founded a great religious institution; the man of radical poverty whose followers were not permitted (even if they had wanted) to imitate his utter rejection of worldly goods; the man of the Bible who never owned a complete one; the author of the first great literary work in Italian dialect, the «Canticle of the Sun,» who was steeped in the jongleur tradition of French poetry and song; the naïf who moved the heart and enriched the religious imagination of that great realist and exponent of papal power, Innocent III; the child of the age of Crusades who sought not the conquest of the Muslims but their conversion.

You have to speak a special dialect of Chritianeese, pray in a certain way, raise your hands during certain types of praise songs, etc..

Those two songs both have the loud whistles, and one of them has the bonk, the loud sound that contrasts strongly with the quack of the Panama dialect.

Note the third song (with three loud whistles, characteristic of the Monteverde dialect) and the last song (with two loud quacks and two series of soft sounds after that, characteristic of the Panama dialect).

Listen to a juvenile male Three - wattled Bellbird whose songs are «bilingual» — sharing features of the Monteverde and Panama dialects.

Because adult cardinal songs exist as different dialects in different geographic regions, dispersing juvenile birds may land in a population with a foreign dialect.

Biologists have recently learned that orcas jabber in local dialects, and humpbacks sing long complex songs that change through time (ScienceNOW, 29 November 2000).

These changes may serve as an additional cue for females to mate assortatively with males locally adapted to their location of origin (sensu individuals colonizing new areas and mistakes in males» song imitation resulting in new dialects [14]-RRB-.

For students experiencing difficulty with organizing and memorizing information, teachers may use: (1) mnemonic devices such as the acronym HOMES, which stands for the names of the Great Lakes; (2) riddles, poems, and songs for remembering important people, places, and events; (3) check lists and calendars for organizing and completing assignments; (4) color coding for organizing and accessing materials and assignments (for example, different colored notebooks or dividers for different assignments and subjects); and (5) multisensory assignments and activities for remembering more fully an experience or more thoroughly grasping a concept from a concrete example (for example, construction projects, three - dimensional maps, textured artifacts, period music, dance, and dress, regional dialects and languages, and samples of various cuisines).

Educators can capitalize on adolescents» deep need to be steeped in rhythms, words, actions, values, and emotions by bringing these elements — found in song, slang, dialect, dance, and technology — into classroom learning experiences.

Sung in Iraqi dialect Arabic, the singers do not understand the words to the songs they sing; told they are traditional, passionate love songs when in fact they were commissioned by Saddam Hussein to glorify his regime.