Figure 1
From: Driving singing behaviour in songbirds using a multi-modal, multi-agent virtual environment
A modular multi-agent multi-modal setup for social communication in birds. (A) The cage equipped with the setup and an opaque divider. On the front perch the bird is able to see the screen, while not when it sits on the back perch. (B) Connecting two setups provides the visual impression of the other animal being twice the distance between the bird and the camera away; in this case 20 cm. (C) The distributed hardware architecture of the setup based on40. See “Methods” section for more detail. (D) Perch and acoustic event streams produced during 2 h of communication through the environment and a 10-min zoom of the area with yellow overlay. For complex event definitions see main text. (E) The perch preference in four different experimental conditions. Different letters denote significant difference (two-proportion z-test, 1% significance level, \(\text {n}=24\)).
