Excitatory and inhibitory interactions affect the balance of chorus activity and energy efficiency in the aggregations of male frogs: numerical simulations using a hybrid dynamical model

DOI10.1016/J.JTBI.2022.111352zbMATH Open1504.92177arXiv2111.02640OpenAlexW4308559969WikidataQ122682175 ScholiaQ122682175MaRDI QIDQ2109327FDOQ2109327

Authors: Ikkyu Aihara, Daichi Kominami, Yushi Hosokawa, Masayuki Murata 

Publication date: 20 December 2022

Published in: Journal of Theoretical Biology (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We theoretically study the role of excitatory and inhibitory interactions in the aggregations of male frogs. In most frogs, males produce sounds to attract conspecific females, which activates the calling behavior of other males and results in collective choruses. While the calling behavior is quite effective for mate attraction, it requires high energy consumption. In contrast, satellite behavior is an alternative mating strategy in which males deliberately stay silent in the vicinity of a calling male and attempt to intercept the female attracted to the caller, allowing the satellite males to drastically reduce their energy consumption while having a chance of mating. Here we propose a hybrid dynamical model in which male frogs autonomously switch among three behavioral states (i.e., calling state, resting state, and satellite state) due to the excitatory and inhibitory interactions. Numerical simulation of the proposed model demonstrated that (1) both collective choruses and satellite behavior can be reproduced and (2) the satellite males can prolong the energy depletion time of the whole aggregation while they split the maximum chorus activity into two levels over the whole chorusing period. This study theoretically highlights the trade-off between energy efficiency and chorus activity in the aggregations of male frogs driven by the multiple types of interactions.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2111.02640

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zbMATH Keywords

spatial structurenonlinear dynamicsacoustic communicationhybrid dynamical modelsatellite behavior

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Animal behavior (92D50)

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