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. 2011 Jun 28;6(6):e21434. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0021434

Table 1. Acoustic properties of bouts and units: grand means and coefficients of variation (CVs).

Acoustic property Inline graphic Inline graphic Grand mean ± SD Inline graphic Inline graphic
Bout duration (s) - 80.8 (24.0–135.8) 3.2±1.6 (1.2–5.2) 50.1 0.6
Number of pulses per bout - 85.9 (52.2–129.9) 4.8±2.1 (1.2–7.1) 42.6 0.5
Number of tonal segments per bout - 55.5 (35.1–100.7) 1.6±0.5 (1.2–2.5) 29.1 0.5
Pulse rate (1/s) - 55.7 (37.7–98.6) 1.8±0.6 (1.0–2.8) 32.0 0.6
Tonal rate (1/s) - 74.4 (31.7–112.7) 1.1±0.6 (0.3–1.9) 54.4 0.7
Pulse duration (ms) 32.4 (0.0–102.2) 33.9 (18.0–85.4) 58±16 (33–76) 27.3 0.8
Pulse peak frequency (Hz) 17.8 (0.0–63.9) 20.0 (6.9–28.2) 60±6 (51–72) 10.1 0.5
Tonal duration (ms) 37.4 (6.7–88.2) 43.5 (27.8–62.1) 461±120 (279–713) 26.0 0.6
Tonal fundamental frequency (Hz) 8.3 (0.1–18.6) 6.6 (1.6–13.9) 168±14 (147–192) 8.4 1.3
Tonal fundamental frequency I 15.4 (0.3–67.4) 14.7 (9.1–36.9) 194±23 (155–229) 11.7 0.8
Tonal fundamental frequency C 13.0 (1.0–45.6) 12.3 (1.7–23.3) 219±18 (199–254) 8.3 0.7
Tonal fundamental frequency F 13.0 (0.0–47.3) 13.6 (2.1–23.4) 210±24 (182–257) 11.6 0.9
Tonal frequency modulation (C-I) 58.4 (2.1–136.0) 60.1 (30.2–82.2) 29±16 (13–62) 53.9 0.9
Tonal frequency modulation (F-C) 84.8 (20.7–149.2) 85.5 (38.6–134.4) 23±9 (9–36) 37.6 0.4
Tonal frequency modulation (F-I) 81.2 (2.7–139.5) 77.2 (59.9–105.6) 31±19 (10–70) 62.3 0.8
Pulse-pulse interval (ms) 91.3 (11.5–199.5) 76.3 (43.2–109.9) 608±384 (184–1,341) 63.1 0.8
Pulse-tonal interval (ms) 142.1 (32.6–200.0) 178.7 (88.4–300.0) 56±66 (0–181) 118.0 0.7
Tonal-pulse interval (ms) 60.7 (3.2–149.4) 61.5 (15.9–141.4) 406±202 (147–794) 49.9 0.8
Tonal-tonal interval (ms) 82.8 (12.8–137.5) 73.8 (16.2–137.1) 1000±493 (501–2,217) 49.3 0.7

Inline graphic: mean within-bouts coefficient of variation ( = mean of the 78 bouts' CVs; Fig. S2a); Inline graphic: mean within-individual coefficient of variation ( = mean of the 10 individual CVs; Fig. S2b); Grand mean: mean of the 10 individual means, each obtained as the mean of the bouts' means (Table S5); CVb: between-individual CV; Inline graphic: between-individual to within-individual CV ratio; ranges in parentheses.