Interspecific audience effects on the alarm-calling behaviour of a kleptoparasitic bird

Biology Letters

Volumn 3, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 589-591

  Ridley, Amanda R ^a   Child, Matthew F ^a   Bell, Matthew B V ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAPE TOWN   (South Africa)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Alarm calls; Audience effect; Fork tailed drongo; Kleptoparasitism; Pied babbler

Indexed keywords

AVES; DICRURUS ADSIMILIS; TIMALIIDAE; TURDOIDES BICOLOR;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; PHYSIOLOGY; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SONGBIRD; VOCALIZATION;

ANIMALS; PASSERIFORMES; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; VOCALIZATION, ANIMAL;

EID: 38449107080     PISSN: 17449561     EISSN: 1744957X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsbl.2007.0325     Document Type: Article

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