Do conversational gutturals help Florida scrub-jays coordinate their sentinel behavior?

Ethology

Volumn 114, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 313-317

  Bednekoff, Peter A ^a   Bowman, Reed ^b   Woolfenden, Glen E ^c  

^a EASTERN MICHIGAN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b ARCHBOLD BIOLOGICAL STATION   (United States)

^c NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CALLING BEHAVIOR; FORAGING BEHAVIOR; HYPOTHESIS TESTING; PASSERINE; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS;

APHELOCOMA COERULESCENS; APHELOCOMA COERULESCENS COERULESCENS; AVES;

EID: 40849134175     PISSN: 01791613     EISSN: 14390310     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1439-0310.2008.01467.x     Document Type: Article

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