How to be fed but not eaten: nestling responses to parental food calls and the sound of a predator's footsteps

Animal Behaviour

Volumn 74, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 1117-1129

  Magrath, Robert D ^a   Pitcher, Benjamin J ^a   Dalziell, Anastasia H ^a  

^a AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

acoustic communication; alarm call; begging; error; food call; parent offspring communication; predation; provisioning call; Sericornis frontalis; white browed scrubwren

Indexed keywords

ALARM SIGNAL; BEHAVIORAL RESPONSE; CALLING BEHAVIOR; FOOD PROVISIONING; NESTLING; PASSERINE; PREDATION RISK; VOCALIZATION;

AVES; MALURUS CYANEUS; SERICORNIS FRONTALIS; STREPERA GRACULINA; TROGLODYTINAE;

EID: 35748954894     PISSN: 00033472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.anbehav.2007.01.025     Document Type: Article

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