Which call parameters signal threat to conspecifics in white-throated magpie-jay mobbing calls?

Ethology

Volumn 114, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 154-163

  Ellis, Jesse M S ^a  

^a Department of Obstetrics Gynecology   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CALLING BEHAVIOR; COMMUNICATION BEHAVIOR; MOBBING; PASSERINE; SIGNAL;

CALOCITTA FORMOSA; CORVIDAE;

EID: 38149101592     PISSN: 01791613     EISSN: 14390310     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1439-0310.2007.01439.x     Document Type: Article

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