Sound familiar? Acoustic similarity provokes responses to unfamiliar heterospecific alarm calls

Behavioral Ecology

Volumn 22, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 401-410

  Fallow, Pamela M ^a   Gardner, Janet L ^a,b   Magrath, Robert D ^a  

^a AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Acanthizidae; acoustic structure; alarm calls; interspecific eavesdropping; Maluridae; Malurus cyaneus

Indexed keywords

ALARM SIGNAL; CALLING BEHAVIOR; CONSPECIFIC; INTERSPECIFIC VARIATION; LEARNING; PASSERINE;

ANIMALIA; AVES; MALURIDAE; MALURUS CYANEUS; PARDALOTIDAE; TROGLODYTINAE; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 79953894335     PISSN: 10452249     EISSN: 14657279     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/beheco/arq221     Document Type: Article

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