Heterospecifics do not respond to subtle differences in chaffinch mobbing calls: Message is encoded in number of elements

Animal Behaviour

Volumn 82, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 725-730

  Randler, Christoph ^a   Förschler, Marc I ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDUCATION HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

^b INSTITUTE OF AVIAN RESEARCH VOGELWARTE HELGOLAND   (Germany)

Author keywords

Alarm call; Chaffinch; Communication; Conspecific attraction; Fringilla coelebs; Heterospecific attraction; Mobbing

Indexed keywords

ALARM SIGNAL; CONSPECIFIC; MOBBING; PASSERINE; PERCEPTION; PREDATOR-PREY INTERACTION; SIZE; VOCALIZATION;

AVES; FRINGILLA; FRINGILLA COELEBS; PASSERIFORMES;

EID: 80052701449     PISSN: 00033472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.anbehav.2011.07.002     Document Type: Article

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