Adult frogs are sensitive to the predation risks of olfactory communication

Biology Letters

Volumn 7, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 361-363

  Hamer, Rowena ^a   Lemckert, Francis L ^b   Banks, Peter B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^b Forest Science Centre   (Australia)

Author keywords

Anuran; Eavesdropping; Olfaction; Scent hunting; Signal exploitation

Indexed keywords

ADULT; COMPLEXITY; CONSPECIFIC; FROG; OLFACTORY CUE; PERCEPTION; PREDATION RISK; SCENT MARKING; SNAKE; SYMPATRY;

ANIMAL; ANIMAL COMMUNICATION; ARTICLE; DECISION MAKING; ECOSYSTEM; FEMALE; FROGS AND TOADS; MALE; ODOR; PREDATION; SMELLING; SNAKE;

ANIMAL COMMUNICATION; ANIMALS; ANURA; CHOICE BEHAVIOR; ECOSYSTEM; ELAPIDAE; FEMALE; MALE; ODORS; OLFACTORY PERCEPTION; PREDATORY BEHAVIOR; SMELL;

ANURA; LIMNODYNASTES PERONII; MIXOPHYES FASCIOLATUS; PSEUDECHIS PORPHYRIACUS;

EID: 80051696942     PISSN: 17449561     EISSN: 1744957X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsbl.2010.1127     Document Type: Article

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