Tactical multimodal signalling in birds: Facultative variation in signal modality reveals sensitivity to social costs

Animal Behaviour

Volumn 82, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 521-527

  Smith, Carolynn L ^a   Taylor, Alan ^a   Evans, Christopher S ^a  

^a MACQUARIE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Food calling; Fowl; Gallus gallus; Multimodal signal; Referential signal; Tactical signalling; Tidbitting

Indexed keywords

BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY; BIRD; NUMERICAL MODEL; PRIMATE; SELECTION; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SIGNALING; TAXONOMY;

AVES; GALLUS GALLUS; MAMMALIA; PRIMATES;

EID: 80051672385     PISSN: 00033472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.anbehav.2011.06.002     Document Type: Article

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