Sandra L.L. Gaunt
Retired Curator, Research Associate II, and Adjunct Assistant Professor
gaunt.2@osu.edu
Research on animal vocal communication,
broadly comparative in nature involving such diverse groups as dolphins, doves, cranes,
parrots, hummingbirds and parids (chickadees and tits). Most recent research primarily
on hummingbird song dialects, the evolution of parid vocal complexity, and bioacoustics
as applied to conservation.
Most recent publications include:
° Gaunt, S.L.L., L.F. Baptista, J.E. Sanchez and D. Hernandez. 1994. Song learning as evidenced from song sharing in two hummingbird species (Colibri coruscans and C. thalassinus). The Auk: 111:87-103.
° Baptista, L.F. and S.L.L. Gaunt. 1994. Advances in studies of avian sound communication. Condor 96:817-830.
° Gaunt, A.S., T.L. Bucher, S.L.L. Gaunt and L.F. Baptista. 1996. Commentary, Is singing costly? The Auk 113:718-721.
° Kroodsma, D.E., G.F. Budney, R.W. Grotke, J. Vielliard, R. Ranft, O.D. Veprintseva & S.L.L. Gaunt. 1996. Natural Sound Archives. In: Ecology and Evolution of Acoustic Communication among Birds. Cornell Univ..Press.
° Gaunt, S.L.L. 1996. Song displays, song dialects, and lek mating systems in hummingbirds. J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 99:2532.
° Baptista, L.F. & S.L.L. Gaunt. 1997. Social Interaction and Vocal Development in Birds. In: Social Interaction Influences on Vocal Development. (C.T. Snowden & M. Hausberger eds.), Cambridge Univ. Press, Cambridge. pp 23-42.
° Baptista, L.F. & S.L.L. Gaunt. 1997. Bioacoustics as a tool in conservation studies. In: Behavioral Approaches to Conservation in the Wild (J.R. Clemmons & R. Buchholz eds.) Cambridge Univ. Press, Cambridge. pp 212-242.
° Khanna, H., S.L.L. Gaunt & D.A. McCallum 1997. Digital spectrographic cross-correlation, tests of sensitivity. Bioacoustics 7: 209-234.
° Baptista, L.F., D.A. Nelson & S.L.L. Gaunt. 1998. Cognitive processes in avian vocal acquisition. In: Animal Cognition in Nature (Kamil, A.C., R. Balda & I. M. Pepperberg eds.), Academic Press, New York pp. 245-273.
° Baptista, L.F. & S.L.L. Gaunt. 1999. Cognitive processes in avian vocal development. In: Adams, N. J. & Slotow, R. H. (eds) Proc. XXII International Ornithological Congress, Durban: 138-155. Johannesburg: BirdLife South Africa.
° Nelson, D.A., S.L.L. Gaunt, K.Beeman, C.L. Bronson, S.C. Burnett & J.E. Hough II. 1999. The Digital Archiving Project at the Borror Laboratory of Bioacoustics. J. of the Acoust. Soc. Am. 106: 2190. (abstract)
° McCallum, D. A., F. B. Gill & S.L.L. Guant. 2001. Community assembly patterns of Parids along an elevational gradient in western China. Wilson Bull. 113(1): 53-64.
° Nelson, D. A., S.L.L. Gaunt, C.L. Bronson & T.J. Kloth, Jr. 2001. Database design for an Archive of Animal Sounds. IEEE Engin. Med. Biol. 20(3):76-80.
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