The effect of predator type and danger level on the mob calls of the American Crow

Condor

Volumn 111, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 159-168

  Yorzinski, Jessica L ^a,b   Vehrencamp, Sandra L ^a  

^a Fuller Evolutionary Biology Program   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Acoustic communication; Alarm vocalizations; American Crow; Call structure; Corvus brachyrhynchos; Mobbing; Referential calls

Indexed keywords

AVES; CORVIDAE; CORVUS BRACHYRHYNCHOS; MAMMALIA; PROCYON; STRIGIFORMES;

EID: 67650337605     PISSN: 00105422     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1525/cond.2009.080057     Document Type: Article

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