Rivers and roads, silence and songs: female crickets respond similarly to conspecific male song in natural and anthropogenic soundscapes

Many studies have demonstrated that anthropogenic noise affects animals’ auditory perception of salient stimuli. Few have tested whether these effects are different from those experienced in nature. We tested the ability of female field crickets, Teleogryllus oceanicus, to locate a speaker playing conspecific male song in four background acoustic conditions: silence, road noise, river noise, and heterospecific song. We recorded how successful crickets were in reaching the correct speaker in each condition, as well as varying other metrics for the ones that were successful, such as speed, path length and latency to start. Crickets paused more frequently during river noise and heterospecific song treatments compared to silence or road noise. We also recorded auditory interneuron (AN2) activity under the first three background conditions to construct and compare condition-specific audiograms and AN2 response to conspecific song. We examined the the thresholds of response for AN2 at differe..., , # Rivers and roads, silence and songs: female crickets respond similarly to conspecific male song in natural and anthropogenic soundscapes

Dataset DOI: [10.5061/dryad.b5mkkwhqx](10.5061/dryad.b5mkkwhqx)

## Description of the data and file structure

*Teleogryllus oceanicus* crickets were placed in the center of a circular arena surrounded by speakers. A single focal speaker located on the edge of the arena played the song of a male cricket while additional speakers located around the arena played one of four background noise conditions (silence, traffic noise, river noise, or the song of another cricket species). Crickets were recorded via a ceiling mounted security camera and scored on whether they reached the correct speaker playing male song. Those that did were then scored on their speed, latency to leave the central shelter, distance they travelled, and number of times they paused. 

A subset of these crickets were then selected for neural trials. Crickets were pinned and their c...,

多项研究已证实，人为噪声会干扰动物对显著刺激的听觉感知，但鲜有研究检验此类效应与自然环境中所经历的影响是否存在差异。本研究以雌性田野蟋蟀（*Teleogryllus oceanicus*）为实验对象，测试其在四种背景声学条件下定位播放同种雄虫鸣唱的扬声器的能力：静息环境、道路交通噪声、河流噪声以及异种鸣唱。我们记录了蟋蟀在每种条件下成功抵达正确扬声器的成功率，并针对成功个体的多项行为指标进行统计，包括行进速度、路径长度以及启动潜伏期等。相较于静息或道路交通噪声组，蟋蟀在河流噪声与异种鸣唱处理组中的停顿频率显著更高。此外，我们还在前三种背景条件下记录了听觉中间神经元（AN2）的活动，以构建并对比不同条件下的听力图，以及AN2对同种雄虫鸣唱的响应特性。我们检测了AN2在不同……，# 河流与道路、静息与鸣唱：雌性蟋蟀在自然与人为声景中对同种雄虫鸣唱的响应相似
数据集DOI：10.5061/dryad.b5mkkwhqx

## 数据与文件结构说明
*Teleogryllus oceanicus* 蟋蟀被放置于圆形实验场地中央，场地周边环绕扬声器。场地边缘的单个目标扬声器播放雄虫鸣唱，而场地周围的其余扬声器则播放四种背景噪声之一：静息环境、交通噪声、河流噪声，或是另一物种的鸣唱。通过天花板安装的监控摄像头记录蟋蟀的行为，并对其是否成功抵达播放雄虫鸣唱的目标扬声器进行评分。对于成功抵达的个体，进一步对其行进速度、离开中央遮蔽处的潜伏期、行进距离以及停顿次数进行评分。

随后选取部分蟋蟀开展神经生理学实验。将蟋蟀固定后，其……