Data for: Snake-like bird hisses induce anti-predator responses in a frog

Mimicry is a fascinating natural phenomenon, yet the ecological role of vocal mimicry receives limited attention. Some snakes emit hissing calls and many birds perform such acoustic mimicry in order to deter potential predators. Here we hypothesize that snake-like hisses may evoke anti-predator responses in anuran species. We conducted sound playbacks to test how little torrent frogs (Amolops torrentis) varied their behaviors in response to white noise, snake hisses, and snake-like bird hisses. We found that snake hiss from sympatric king cobras (Ophiophagus hannah) could change calling behavior of little torrent frogs, while white noise and snake hiss from allopatric Gaboon vipers (Bitis gabonica) showed no influence. Calling frogs also had no response to white noise and great tit (Parus major) hisses, which had low acoustic similarity with snakes, while they decreased calling activity when exposed to zitting cisticola (Cisticola juncidis) hisses which had high acoustic similarity with..., Sound playbacks were conducted in July 2022 and June 2023 at a tropical forest stream, Wuzhishan National Nature Reserve (109°32'-43' E, 18°48'-59' N), Hainan, south China. In playback experiments, a speaker (Clip3, JBL, USA) was fixed on a shelf bracket and placed at a 1 m distance to the focal individual. All stimuli were played via a digital voice recorder (ICD-PX470, Sony, Japan) connected to the speaker. During playbacks, the sound pressure levels (SPLs) of different groups were about 80 dB in the 1 m distance., The three audio files (S1-S3) can be opened by MP4. Data recorded for experiment 1 and experiment 2 can be opened by Microsoft Excel., # Data for: Snake-like bird hisses induce anti-predator responses in a frog

* Dataset Title: Data for the article “Snake-like bird hisses induce anti-predator responses in a frog”
* Persistent Identifier: https://doi.org/doi\_10.5061/dryad.x69p8czpx
* Dataset Contributors:Longhui Zhao, Yuanyu Qin, Yanjun Jin, Jichao Wang, Wei Liang
* Address of contributors: Ministry of Education Key Laboratory for Ecology of Tropical Islands, Key Laboratory of Tropical Animal and Plant Ecology of Hainan Province, College of Life Sciences, Hainan Normal University, Haikou 571158, China
* Correspondence: Dr. Jichao Wang ([e-mail]) and Dr. Wei Liang ([e-mail])
* Date of Issue: 2023-07-07
* Dataset citation: Zhao L, Qin Y, Jin Y, Wang J, Liang W. 2023. Data for the article “Snake-like bird hisses induce anti-predator responses in a frog”, Dryad, Dataset, https://datadryad.org/stash/share/eHR2qkmmSI2Z5FVI0rICZbX9OE7fDE15mQeMGhbnS0M.
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