Background
This is the biogeographic area the singing mice live in.
What is the Neotropical region?
The abiotic factor researchers logged at replacement zones.
What is temperature?
This species colonized removal plots when their competitor was removed.
What is S. teguina?
The species names of the two mice studied.
What are S. teguina and S. xerampelinus?
These three sounds were played in the audio playback experiments.
What are control songs, conspecific songs, and heterospecific songs?
This species did NOT have differing responses to audios of each species singing.
What is S. xerampelinus.
This fitness benefit is why displays and other signals evolved to demonstrate competitive advantages.
What is avoiding physical combat that might result in injury or death?
These countries are where the study took place.
What are Panama and Costa Rice?
This species initiated more attacks towards the other in the behavioral trials.
What is S. xerampelinus?
The name of the area in which one species no longer inhabits an area and a new species takes over inhabitation.
What is a replacement zone?
How far researchers moved up the trapping grid each time S. teguina was caught.
What is 50 meters?
What is S. teguina?