Mobbing calls signal predator category in a kin group-living bird species

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 276, Issue 1669, 2009, Pages 2887-2892

  Griesser, Michael ^a,b  

^a UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b SWEDISH UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Accipiter; Family group; Perisoreus infaustus; Referential calls; Semantic calls

Indexed keywords

ANTIPREDATOR DEFENSE; BIRD; CALLING BEHAVIOR; MOBBING; PREDATION RISK; PREY AVAILABILITY; SPECIES OCCURRENCE;

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BIRD; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GROUP DYNAMICS; HAWK; MALE; NONHUMAN; OWL; PERISOREUS INFAUSTUS; PREDATOR; PREDATOR PREY INTERACTION; PREY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPECIES; VOCALIZATION;

ACCIPITER; AVES; CORVIDAE; PERISOREUS INFAUSTUS; STRIGIFORMES;

EID: 68249097489     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2009.0551     Document Type: Article

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