Snake-directed mobbing in a cooperative breeder: Anti-predator behaviour or self-advertisement for the formation of dispersal coalitions?

Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology

Volumn 52, Issue 5, 2002, Pages 372-378

  Maklakov, Alexei A ^a,b  

^a TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^b BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

Author keywords

Advertisement; Anti predator; Arabian babbler; Coalition; Mobbing

Indexed keywords

ANTIPREDATOR DEFENSE; COOPERATIVE BEHAVIOR; HONEST SIGNALING; PREDATOR-PREY INTERACTION;

AVES; BITIS CAUDALIS; CERASTES; CERASTES GASPERETTII; RAPTORES; SERPENTES; TIMALIIDAE; TURDOIDES; TURDOIDES SQUAMICEPS;

EID: 0036819607     PISSN: 03405443     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00265-002-0528-5     Document Type: Article

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