Rapid acquisition of an alarm response by a neotropical primate to a newly introduced avian predator

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 270, Issue 1515, 2003, Pages 605-610

  Gil da Costa, Ricardo ^a,b,d   Palleroni, Alberto ^a   Hauser, Marc D ^a   Touchton, Janeene ^c   Patrick Kelley, J ^a  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b INSTITUTO GULBENKIAN DE CIÊNCIA   (Portugal)

^c Peregrine Fund   (Panama)

^d NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

Conservation biology; Evolutionary mechanisms; Playbacks; Predator assessment calls; Predator prey arms races

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; ALARM SIGNAL; CONSERVATION MANAGEMENT; EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY; PREDATOR-PREY INTERACTION; PRIMATE; REINTRODUCTION;

ADAPTATION; ARTICLE; CONSERVATION BIOLOGY; CONTROLLED STUDY; EAGLE; ECOSYSTEM; EVOLUTION; FEMALE; FOWL; MALE; MONKEY; NEOTROPICS; NONHUMAN; PREDATION; PRESSURE; PREY; PRIMATE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STRESS;

BARRO COLORADO ISLAND; PANAMA;

ALOUATTA PALLIATA; AVES; CICONIIFORMES; GALLIFORMES; HARPIA HARPYJA; PRIMATES;

EID: 0037460871     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2002.2281     Document Type: Article

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