Individual recognition and selective response to contact calls in foraging brown-throated conures, Aratinga pertinax

Animal Behaviour

Volumn 76, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 1715-1725

  Buhrman Deever, Susannah C ^a   Hobson, Elizabeth A ^a   Hobson, Aaron D ^a  

^a Fuller Evolutionary Biology Program   (United States)

Author keywords

Aratinga pertinax; brown throated conure; contact call; fission fusion; food calling; individual recognition; Psittaciformes

Indexed keywords

BIRD; CALLING BEHAVIOR; CONSPECIFIC; FEEDING GROUND; FORAGING BEHAVIOR; FUNCTIONAL GROUP; RECOGNITION; RECRUITMENT (POPULATION DYNAMICS);

ARATINGA PERTINAX; PSITTACIFORMES;

EID: 53549092242     PISSN: 00033472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.anbehav.2008.08.007     Document Type: Article

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