Cooperatively breeding Arabian babblers call differently when mobbing in different predator-induced situations

Behavioral Ecology

Volumn 10, Issue 6, 1999, Pages 636-640

  Naguib, Marc ^a   Mundry, Roger ^a   Ostreiher, Roni ^b   Hultsch, Henrike ^a   Schrader, Lars ^a,c   Todt, Dietmar ^a  

^a FREIE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

^b Hazeva Field Study Centre   (Israel)

^c ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Alarm calling; Arabian babblers; Cooperative breeders; Mobbing; Predator prey interactions; Turdoides squamiceps

Indexed keywords

ANTIPREDATOR DEFENSE; COOPERATIVE BREEDING; PASSERINE; VOCALIZATION;

AVES; FELIS CATUS; GALLIFORMES; PASSERIFORMES; STRIGIFORMES; TIMALIIDAE; TURDOIDES SQUAMICEPS;

EID: 0033375159     PISSN: 10452249     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/beheco/10.6.636     Document Type: Article

References (26)

1. Altmann SA, 1956. Avian mobbing behavior and predator recognition. Condor 58:241-253.
2. Blumstein D, 1995. Golden marmot alarm calls. I. The production of situationally specific vocalizations. Ethology 100:113-125.
3. Blumstein D, Armitage KB, 1997. Alarm calling in yellow-bellied marmots I: the meaning of situationally variable alarm calls. Anim Behav 53:143-171.
4. Curio E, 1978. The adaptive significance of avian mobbing I. Telenomic hypothesis and predictions. Z Tierpsychol 48:175-183.
5. Curio E, 1993. Proximate and developmental aspects of antipredator behavior. Adv Study Behav 22:135-238.
6. Curio E, Ernst U, Vieth W, 1978. The adaptive significance of avian mobbing II. Cultural transmission of enemy recognition in blackbirds: effectiveness and some constraints. Z Tierpsychol 48:184-202.
7. Evans CS, Evans L, Marler, P 1993. On the meaning of alarm calls: functional reference in an avian vocal system. Anim Behav 39:785-796.
8. Klump GM, Kretzschmar E, Curio E, 1986. The hearing of an avian predator and its prey. Behav Ecol Sociobiol 18:317-323.
9. Klump GM, Shalter MD, 1984. Acoustic behaviour of birds and mammals in the predator context. I. Factors affecting the structure of alarm signals. II. The functional significance and evolution of alarm signals. Z Tierpsychol 66:189-226.
10. Kruuk H, 1976. The biological function of gulls' attraction towards predators. Anim Behav 24:146-153.
11. Leger DW, Owings DH, Boal LM, 1979. Contextual information and differential responses to alarm whistles in California ground squirrels. Z Tierpsychol 49:142-155.
12. Loughry WJ, McDonough CM, 1988. Calling and vigilance in California ground squirrels: a test of the tonic communication hypothesis. Anim Behav 36:1533-1540.
13. Macedonia JM, 1990. What is communicated in the antipredator calls of lemurs: evidence from playback experiments with ringtailed and ruffed lemurs. Ethology 86:177-190.
14. Marler P, Evans SE, Hauser MD, 1992. Animal signals: motivational, referential, or both? In: Nonverbal vocal communication (Papousek H, Jürgens U, Papousek M, eds). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press; 66-86.
15. Mundry R, Fischer J, 1998. Use of statistical programs for nonparametric tests of small samples often leads to incorrect P values: examples from Animal Behaviour. Anim Behav 56:256-259.
16. Owings DH, Virginia RA, 1978. Alarm calls of California ground squirrels (Spermophilus beecheyi). Z Tierpsychol 46:58-78.
17. Ostreiher R, 1997. Food division in the Arabian babbler nest: adult choice or nestling competition? Behav Ecol 8:233-238.
18. Pavey CR, Smyth AK, 1998. Effects of avian mobbing on roost use and diet of powerful owls, Ninox strenus. Anim Behav 55:313-318.
19. Pettifor RA, 1990. The effects of avian mobbing on a potential predator, the European kestrel, Falco tinnunculus. Anim Behav 39:821-827.
20. Seyfarth RM, Cheney DL, 1980. Vervet monkey alarm calls: semantic communication in a free-ranging primate. Anim Behav 28:1070-1094.
21. Siegel S, Castellan NJ, 1988. Nonparametric statistics for the behavioral sciences, 2nd ed. New York: McGraw-Hill.
22. Stone E, Trost CH, 1991. Predators, risks and context for mobbing and alarm calls in black-billed magpies. Anim Behav 41:633-638.
23. Struhsaker TT, 1967. Auditory communication among vervet monkeys (Cercopithecus aethiops). In: Social communication among primates (Altman SA, ed). Chicago: University of Chicago Press; 281-324.
24. Todt D, Naguib M, in press. Vocal interactions in birds: the use of song as a model in communication. Adv Study Behav.
25. Zahavi A, 1990. The Arabian babbler. In: Cooperative breeding in birds (Stacey PB, Koenig WD, eds). London: Cambridge University Press; 103-130.
26. Zahavi A, Zahavi A, 1997. The handicap principle: a missing piece of Darwin's puzzle. Oxford: Oxford University Press.