Do great tits assess rivals by combining direct experience with information gathered by eavesdropping?

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 269, Issue 1503, 2002, Pages 1925-1929

  Peake, T M ^a   Terry, A M R ^a   McGregor, P K ^a   Dabelsteen, T ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Communication networks; Eavesdropping; Information gathering; Signalling interactions

Indexed keywords

COMMUNICATION; LEARNING; PASSERINE; SIGNALING; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR;

AGGRESSION; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL COMMUNICATION; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; FEMALE; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MALE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEX DIFFERENCE; SIGNAL DETECTION; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL INTERACTION; ANIMAL; PHYSIOLOGY; SONGBIRD; TERRITORIALITY; VOCALIZATION;

ANIMALIA; PARUS; PARUS MAJOR; PASSERIFORMES;

AGGRESSION; ANIMAL COMMUNICATION; ANIMALS; MALE; SONGBIRDS; TERRITORIALITY; VOCALIZATION, ANIMAL;

EID: 0037159050     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2002.2112     Document Type: Article

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