Close calling regulates spacing between foraging competitors in the group-living pied babbler

Animal Behaviour

Volumn 75, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 519-527

  Radford, Andrew N ^a   Ridley, Amanda R ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAPE TOWN   (South Africa)

Author keywords

conflict resolution; food calls; pied babbler; playback experiments; social birds; spatial separation; Turdoides bicolor; vocal communication

Indexed keywords

AVIFAUNA; COMMUNICATION BEHAVIOR; COMPETITION (ECOLOGY); EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; FORAGING BEHAVIOR; GROUP BEHAVIOR; PASSERINE; VOCALIZATION;

AVES; PRIMATES; TIMALIIDAE; TURDOIDES BICOLOR;

EID: 38649121175     PISSN: 00033472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.anbehav.2007.05.016     Document Type: Article

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