Context-dependent vocal mimicry in a passerine bird

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 273, Issue 1588, 2006, Pages 875-880

  Goodale, Eben ^a   Kotagama, Sarath W ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLOMBO   (Sri Lanka)

Author keywords

Alarm calls; Context dependent mimicry; Dicrurus paradiseus; Mixed species flocks; Mobbing calls; Vocal mimicry

Indexed keywords

ALARM SIGNAL; MIMICRY; MOBBING; PASSERINE; RAINFOREST; VOCALIZATION;

ACOUSTICS; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BIRD; CONTROLLED STUDY; DICRURUS PARADISEUS; LEARNING; NONHUMAN; PREDATOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAIN FOREST; SRI LANKA; VOCALIZATION; ANIMAL; ANIMAL COMMUNICATION; ENVIRONMENT; HEARING; PHYSIOLOGY; SONGBIRD; SPECIES DIFFERENCE;

ASIA; EURASIA; SOUTH ASIA; SRI LANKA;

AVES; DICRURUS PARADISEUS; PASSERIFORMES;

ANIMAL COMMUNICATION; ANIMALS; AUDITORY PERCEPTION; ENVIRONMENT; HEARING; SONGBIRDS; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; SRI LANKA; VOCALIZATION, ANIMAL;

EID: 33745253747     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2005.3392     Document Type: Article

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