Distress calls may honestly signal bird quality to predators

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 271, Issue SUPPL. 6, 2004, Pages

  Laiolo, Paola ^a   Tella, José L ^a   Carrete, Martina ^a   Serrano, David ^a   López, Guillermo ^a  

^a DEPARTMENT OF CONSERVATION BIOLOGY   (Spain)

Author keywords

Birds; Body condition; Distress calls; Honest signal; Immunocompetence; Prey quality

Indexed keywords

BODY CONDITION; HONEST SIGNALING; IMMUNOCOMPETENCE; PREDATOR-PREY INTERACTION; VOCALIZATION;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BIRD; IMMUNOCOMPETENCE; NATURAL SELECTION; NONHUMAN; PREDATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEXUAL SELECTION; SINGING; VOCALIZATION;

CALANDRELLA RUFESCENS;

EID: 17044379040     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsbl.2004.0239     Document Type: Article

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