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Animal communication systems are complex, but in many species relatively little is known about how they develop. Insight into the development of adult repertoires, considering how factors such as genetics, environment and learning contribute to signal changes, provides a more co…

Recently the availability of hand-held recording devices has driven the immense growth of citizen-science repositories. While these repositories have the benefit of providing a well-distributed dataset, they also bring the challenge of analyzing recordings collected using device…