Sentence examples for a complex song from inspiring English sources

Pateras describes Patton as the rare type of artist who can perform a complex song all the way through in one take.

The theory is that females appreciate a complex song" in a potential mate, and that rival males are threatened by it.

The bird species was chosen because it has a complex song with a frequency range that is close a female human voice.

"We've known that females prefer males with a complex song repertoire," says William Searcy, a behavioral ecologist at the University of Miami in Florida, "but the reason for that preference has been particularly puzzling".

Tafforet's description also indicates that it had a complex song.

Having a complex song is also useful in defending a territory and deterring less experienced males from encroaching.

Starlings have a highly complex song with a hierarchical structure that is similar to the structure found in human language [15], [16].

Using skylarks (Alauda arvensis) as a birdsong model with a very complex song structure, we detected another performance trade-off: minimum gap duration between syllables was longer when the frequency ratio between the end of one syllable and the start of the next syllable (inter-syllable frequency shift) was large.

Secondly, we found that EPT males had a more complex song (i.e. a larger song repertoire) than CPT males.

Males of this species are more likely to tick off other males when they chirp a soft, complex song than when they blast a loud, territorial song, according to research published this month in The American Naturalist.

That may be boring and dry, but it means that a normally complex song with emotionally engaging highs and lows becomes one overbearing work.