Calling in the Face of Danger: Predation Risk and Acoustic Communication by Parent Birds and Their Of fspring

Advances in the Study of Behavior

Volumn 41, Issue C, 2010, Pages 187-253

  Magrath, Robert D ^a   Haff, Tonya M ^a   Horn, Andrew G ^b   Leonard, Marty L ^b  

^a AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b DALHOUSIE UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Acoustic communication; Alarm call; Begging call; Bioacoustics; Food call; Parent offspring communication; Predation; Provisioning call; Signal design

Indexed keywords

EID: 78650816783     PISSN: 00653454     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1016/S0065-3454(10)41006-2     Document Type: Chapter

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