Bioacoustics & Ecoacoustics Glossary

Sensory bias (or sensory exploitation)

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A situation in which a receiver’s preexisting sensitivity to a signal may be exploited by the sender. This sensitivity has emerged through evolution for reasons other than communication.

Reference: [1] Mathevon (2023), The Voices of Nature: How and Why Animals Communicate, pp. 305–308.