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SUBMITTER: Laplagne DA
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5040720 | biostudies-literature | 2016
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Laplagne Diego A DA Elías Costa Martín M
Frontiers in behavioral neuroscience 20160929
Acoustic signals have the potential for transmitting information fast across distances. Rats emit ultrasonic vocalizations of two distinct classes: "22-kHz" or "alarm" calls and "50-kHz" calls. The latter comprises brief sounds in the 30-80-kHz range, whose ethological role is not fully understood. We recorded ultrasonic vocalizations from pairs of rats freely behaving in neighboring but separated arenas. 50-kHz vocalizations in this condition were tightly linked to the locomotion of the emitter ...[more]