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Table 1 Descriptive statistics of analysed characteristics of Tambourine Dove song

From: Hey mister Tambourine Dove, sing a song for me: simple but individually specific songs of Turtur tympanistria from Cameroon

Variable

Mean

SD

Min‒Max

CVi

CVb

PIC

Number of notes

30.4

6.78

12‒59

37.0

21.1

0.57

Duration (s)

13.8

2.33

7.3‒36.2

27.5

16.0

0.58

Peak frequency (Hz)

432

25.4

280‒600

4.0

5.3

1.34

Minimum frequency (Hz)

416

31.5

280‒490

11.2

5.7

0.51

Maximum frequency (Hz)

473

48.1

420‒980

16.8

5.8

0.35

Peak frequency of notes (Hz)

 Note 1

462

26.6

350‒600

15.3

1.6

0.10

 Note 2

456

27.8

300‒530

12.6

2.0

0.15

 Note 3

452

27.6

420‒530

9.8

1.1

0.12

 Note 4

451

33.9

300‒580

14.3

2.7

0.19

 Note 5

453

36.5

300‒580

14.5

2.5

0.17

 Note 6

444

29.9

300‒530

11.8

1.9

0.16

 Note 7

437

30.2

300‒510

12.0

2.3

0.19

 Note 8

433

29.0

300‒510

9.8

2.6

0.27

 Note 9

432

28.4

320‒510

7.9

2.3

0.29

 Note 10

432

32.0

280‒530

15.5

3.8

0.24

 Note 11

430

28.5

280‒510

9.1

1.8

0.20

 Note 12

429

28.5

390‒510

5.2

1.1

0.22

Note-to-note duration (s)

 NtN1–2

1.05

0.375

0.11‒5.54

135.8

24.0

0.18

 NtN2–3

1.76

0.438

0.11‒4.96

99.2

15.3

0.15

 NtN3–4

1.23

0.434

0.15‒5.34

168.7

19.0

0.11

 NtN4–5

0.45

0.555

0.11‒7.75

442.2

60.9

0.14

 NtN5–6

0.93

0.522

0.03‒2.33

192.5

27.1

0.14

 NtN6–7

1.36

0.666

0.10‒2.40

197.1

19.6

0.10

 NtN7–8

0.56

0.346

0.06‒2.33

208.7

32.4

0.15

 NtN8–9

0.53

0.299

0.03‒1.86

238.2

26.6

0.11

 NtN9–10

0.66

0.429

0.05‒1.87

278.3

23.8

0.09

 NtN10–11

0.4

0.272

0.07‒1.23

348.0

23.7

0.07

 NtN11–12

0.43

0.224

0.07‒1.99

251.4

21.6

0.09

 NtN12–13

0.43

0.180

0.08‒0.99

197.6

15.2

0.08