A host-race of the cuckoo Cuculus canorus with nestlings attuned to the parental alarm calls of the host species

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 273, Issue 1587, 2006, Pages 693-699

  Davies, N B ^a   Madden, J R ^a   Butchart, S H M ^a,c   Rutila, J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EASTERN FINLAND   (Finland)

^c BIRDLIFE INTERNATIONAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Alarm calls; Coevolution; Cuckoo; Nestling begging; Vocal communication

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; ALARM SIGNAL; BEGGING BEHAVIOR; BEHAVIORAL RESPONSE; COEVOLUTION; CRYPSIS; GENETIC MARKER; HOST SPECIFICITY; NESTLING; PREDATOR-PREY INTERACTION; SONGBIRD; VOCALIZATION;

ADAPTATION; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BIRD; COEVOLUTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CUCULUS CANORUS; HABITUATION; NESTLING; NONHUMAN; PREDATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; ANIMAL; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; FEAR; FEMALE; MALE; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; SONGBIRD; VOCALIZATION;

ACROCEPHALUS; CUCULIDAE; CUCULUS CANORUS; SETOPHAGA;

ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; FEAR; FEMALE; MALE; SONGBIRDS; VOCALIZATION, ANIMAL;

EID: 33646458417     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2005.3324     Document Type: Article

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