Dear all,
I would like to study sleep in king penguins and as a part of this I would like to test their arousal threshold. I have come across a few articles that establish this using touch/pressure (Dewasmes et al. 2002). I was wondering whether it would be possible to do something similar but with sound because it will be very difficult to apply touch stimuli in our current set-up.
However, sound will need to be applied at different volume (dB) levels - this could either increase over x time (but then I don't know if the penguins wake because they've been exposed to a sound for an x amount of time or because of the volume), or separately at several volumes (i.e. sound 1 (x kHz) at y dB for z time, but this increases the number of measurements substantially - which increases the 'risk' of habituation).
Does anyone have any experience with this? Any do's and don'ts or recommendations?
Many thanks,
Tessa
Hi allein Tessa
I never try to aware King P with sound but I know that Vincent Viblanc and Benoit Gineste do things with sounds and penguins some years ago. I'm sure that Benoit do the largest part of the field work
I give you their mail, try zu fragen them directly
[email protected] or [email protected] & [email protected]
see you next months at closest penguinlandéria
hopla John le pingouin
I suggest contacting John Lesku (Australia) with your question.
Hope you find a solution to your problem. Kind regards
Irene
Hi Irene, thank you very much for the contact details. I recognise his name from a number of sleep papers, I will definitely send him an email!
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