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Animal vocal communication is usually interactive when individuals are active at the same time; their acoustic signals influence each other’s behaviour, sometimes resulting in complicated types of vocal co-ordination. The highly variable singing behaviours performed by male blackbirds, Turdus merula, at dawn are a good example of such effects (the general features of blackbird song necessary to understand this example are described in Box I).
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Dabelsteen, T. (1992). Interactive Playback: A Finely Tuned Response. In: McGregor, P.K. (eds) Playback and Studies of Animal Communication. NATO ASI Series, vol 228. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4757-6203-7_7
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