Sentence examples for private signalling from inspiring English sources

We study a neotropical katydid which uses airborne sound for long distance communication, but also an alternative form of private signalling through substrate vibration.

Whereas the advantage of private signalling in the face of potential eavesdroppers to airborne signals appears obvious, signalling with tremulations might be more costly in energy terms.

Measurements of metabolic CO2-production rate indicate that the energy necessary for signalling increases 3-fold in full moon nights when private signalling is favoured.

Remarkably, the shift to private signalling under high nocturnal light levels is unrelated to the bat predator eavesdropping on the airborne sound signal, since these bats have been shown to reduce their foraging activity at full moon as well [24].

Indeed, D. gigliotosi varies the relative amount of calling and tremulation with the moon cycle; in periods of high visibility in the rainforest understory there is a shift to more private signalling (Fig. 2).

Males do not arbitrarily use one or the other channel for communication, but spend more time with private signalling under full moon conditions, when the nocturnal rainforest favours predation by visually hunting predators.

Both ministers had in private signalled their plans to retire from politics before the election.

His father is the chairman of Private Signals, an investment management and venture capital firm in Boston.

Although their rhetoric continued to call for Israel's destruction, moderate leaders sent private signals indicating a willingness to compromise.

In the past, a company that big might have been able to nudge down investor expectations by spoon-feeding private signals to analysts before the earnings announcement.

Broadcasting, electronic transmission of radio and television signals that are intended for general public reception, as distinguished from private signals that are directed to specific receivers.