Behavior: Allometry of alarm calls: Black-capped chickadees encode information about predator size

Science

Volumn 308, Issue 5730, 2005, Pages 1934-1937

  Templeton, Christopher N ^a,c   Greene, Erick ^a   Davis, Kate ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MONTANA   (United States)

^b Raptors of the Rockies   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTICS; ECOSYSTEMS;

ACOUSTIC FEATURES; ALARM CALLS; PREDATORS; SPECIES;

BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH;

BEHAVIOR;

ACOUSTICS; ALLOMETRY; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ARTICLE; BIRD; BODY SIZE; CHICKADEE; NONHUMAN; POECILE ATRICAPILLA; PREDATOR AVOIDANCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; VOCALIZATION; ANIMAL; CAT; COLINUS; FALCONIFORMES; FERRET; HAWK; MAMMAL; OWL; PHYSIOLOGY; PREDATION; RAPTOR; SONGBIRD;

ANIMALIA; AVES; PARIDAE; PARUS ATRICAPILLUS; POECILE ATRICAPILLUS;

ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; CATS; COLINUS; FALCONIFORMES; FERRETS; HAWKS; MAMMALS; PREDATORY BEHAVIOR; RAPTORS; SONGBIRDS; STRIGIFORMES; VOCALIZATION, ANIMAL;

EID: 21744454129     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.1108841     Document Type: Article

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