Nature Communications (Jun 2019)

Duets recorded in the wild reveal that interindividually coordinated motor control enables cooperative behavior

  • Susanne Hoffmann,
  • Lisa Trost,
  • Cornelia Voigt,
  • Stefan Leitner,
  • Alena Lemazina,
  • Hannes Sagunsky,
  • Markus Abels,
  • Sandra Kollmansperger,
  • Andries Ter Maat,
  • Manfred Gahr

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-10593-3
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 10, no. 1
pp. 1 – 11

Abstract

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Recording neural activity during coordinated behaviors in controlled environments limits opportunities for understanding natural interactions. Here, the authors record from freely moving duetting birds in their natural habitats to reveal the neural mechanisms of interindividual motor coordination.