Innate or learned acoustic recognition of avian predators in rodents?

Journal of Experimental Biology

Volumn 212, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 506-513

  Kindermann, Teresa ^a,b   Siemers, Björn M ^a,c   Fendt, Markus ^a,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^c MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR ORNITHOLOGY   (Germany)

^d NOVARTIS PHARMA AG   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Anxiety; Bird calls; Fear conditioning; Innate fear; Predation; Predator recognition

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ARTICLE; AUDITORY STIMULATION; BIRD; C57BL MOUSE; CATALEPSY; CONDITIONING; FEAR; FOOD CHAIN; GERBIL; MALE; MOUSE; PHYSIOLOGY; RAT; RODENT; SPRAGUE DAWLEY RAT; VOCALIZATION;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; BIRDS; CONDITIONING (PSYCHOLOGY); FEAR; FOOD CHAIN; FREEZING REACTION, CATALEPTIC; GERBILLINAE; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; RODENTIA; VOCALIZATION, ANIMAL;

AVES; GERBILLINAE; MURINAE; MUS; RATTUS; RODENTIA; STRIGIFORMES;

EID: 59849093432     PISSN: 00220949     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1242/jeb.024174     Document Type: Article

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