Túngara frog call-timing decisions arise as internal rhythms interact with fluctuating chorus noise

For chorusing males, optimally timing their calls relative to nearby rivals’ calls and fluctuations in background chorus noise is crucial for reproductive success. A caller’s acoustic environment will vary by chorus density and the properties of his chorus-mates’ calls and will fluctuate unpredictably due to chorusing dynamics emerging among his chorus-mates. Thus, callers must continuously monitor moment-to-moment fluctuations in the acoustic scene they perceive at the chorus for advantageous times to call. In live experimental choruses, we investigated the factors influencing túngara frog call-timing responses to chorus-mates’ calls on an interaction-by-interaction basis, revealing that intrinsic and extrinsic factors influenced call-timing decisions. Callers were more likely to overlap calls from smaller chorus-mates and chorus-mates at intermediate distances, as well as calls containing lower frequencies and exhibiting lower final amplitude minima. Consequently, variation among male..., In this study, we investigated call-timing interactions among male túngara frogs by recording calling patterns of interacting males within 6 experimental choruses of 6 callers each. We analysed underlying chorusing dynamics and investigated how inter-male variation in call properties influenced how chorus-mates related to one another’s calls., , # Túngara frog call-timing decisions arise as internal rhythms interact with fluctuating chorus noise

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### Folder ‘Transition Probability Repeatability Analysis’

Contains R markdown file and CSV files to run analysis looking at how repeatable inter-caller transition patterns were over time (corresponding to analysis detailed in the first paragraph of the section titled ‘How Stable are Chorusing Dynamics Over Time?’ in the manuscript).

* ‘*210927_001_SHORT_6_males_from_660_to_870_secs_transition_prob_matrix_first70.csv’*: a CSV containing a matrix of pair-wise inter-caller transition probabilities among all chorus-mates in chorus ID ‘210927_001’, for the first 70s of the entire 3.5-minute recording. ‘…*_second7*0.csv’ and ‘…*_third70.csv’* correspond to the second and third of the successive 70s, respectively. There are similar CSV files for each different chorus ID.
* ‘*inter-caller_transition_probabili...