Eavesdropping on other species: mutual interspecific understanding of urgency information in avian alarm calls

Animal Behaviour

Volumn 79, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 411-417

  Fallow, Pamela M ^a   Magrath, Robert D ^a  

^a AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

acoustic communication; alarm call; interspecific eavesdropping; Malurus cyaneus; Sericornis frontalis; superb fairy wren; white browed scrubwren

Indexed keywords

BEHAVIORAL RESPONSE; CONSPECIFIC; INTRASPECIFIC INTERACTION; PASSERINE;

AVES; MALURUS CYANEUS; SERICORNIS FRONTALIS; TROGLODYTINAE;

EID: 74649084923     PISSN: 00033472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.anbehav.2009.11.018     Document Type: Article

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