DataSet & R code used for the analysis of "Mechanisms of mobbing call recognition: Exploring featural decoding in great tits"

Data and R code used in a playback experiment exploring the mechanisms of mobbing call recognition in the great tit, Parus major. Accepted in Animal Behaviour (2024). 

This experiment aimed at testing the hypothesis of simple featural interpretation in the great tit (i.e., the fact that receivers can focus on specific acoustic features rather than complete note recognition). 

The experiment is organised with two parts: first, we test the response of great tits to artificial calls that possess either none or all of the characteristics present in their own calls (and shared with other Parids), and compare their level of response to natural mobbing calls. 

As the 'complete' treatment triggered the same level fo response than the natural calls, we then create artifical calls with only one of the four features used to create our artifical mobbing calls (large frequency range, low frequency, noise and harmonics). 

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