Research
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Latest papers
Elements of male song performance and complexity are associated with reduced risk of paternity loss in a South American passerine.
Proceedings. Biological sciences · 2025
Nonlinear phenomena in animal vocalizations: do they reflect alternative functional modes of voice control, 'leaked' cues to quality or condition, or both?
Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 2025 · first author
Aping Language: Historical Perspectives on the Quest for Semantics, Syntax, and Other Rarefied Properties of Human Language in the Communication of Primates and Other Animals.
Frontiers in psychology · 2021 · first author
Latest funding
- $198,000
The nature, function and evolution of signal complexity in animal and human communication systems
NSERC · 2013 · Principal investigator
5 publications.
Elements of male song performance and complexity are associated with reduced risk of paternity loss in a South American passerine.
Garrido Coria PS, Arrieta RS, Rendall D, Mahler B, Llambías PE
Nonlinear phenomena in animal vocalizations: do they reflect alternative functional modes of voice control, 'leaked' cues to quality or condition, or both?
Rendall D
Aping Language: Historical Perspectives on the Quest for Semantics, Syntax, and Other Rarefied Properties of Human Language in the Communication of Primates and Other Animals.
Rendall D
Cranio-facial remodeling in domestic dogs is associated with changes in larynx position.
Plotsky K, Rendall D, Chase K, Riede T
Transcontinental latitudinal variation in song performance and complexity in house wrens (Troglodytes aedon).
Kaluthota C, Brinkman BE, Dos Santos EB, Rendall D
The nature, function and evolution of signal complexity in animal and human communication systems
Principal investigators: Rendall, Drew
From public funding decisions: CIHR since 2008, NSERC since 1991 and SSHRC since 1998 with their latest competition results, the Canada Foundation for Innovation, Genome Canada, the Canadian Space Agency, Canada Research Chairs, the Fonds de recherche du Québec, Ontario research funding, Michael Smith Health Research BC, the Canadian Cancer Society, Heart & Stroke and Brain Canada.
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