Calling by concluding sentinels: Coordinating cooperation or revealing risk?

PLoS ONE

Volumn 6, Issue 10, 2011, Pages

  Hollén, Linda I ^a   Bell, Matthew B V ^b,e   Russell, Alexis ^c,f   Niven, Fraser ^c   Ridley, Amanda R ^d   Radford, Andrew N ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^c Pied Babbler Research Project   (South Africa)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CAPE TOWN   (South Africa)

^e UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^f MACQUARIE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ARTICLE; BIRD; CONTROLLED STUDY; COOPERATION; COORDINATION; DOMINANCE BEHAVIOR; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; FAST RATE CHUCK CALL; FEMALE; FORAGING BEHAVIOR; HABITAT; MALE; NONHUMAN; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; PREDATOR AVOIDANCE; SENTINEL SYSTEM; SOCIAL STATUS; SPEECH ANALYSIS; TURDOIDES BICOLOR; VOCALIZATION; WIND; ANIMAL; PHYSIOLOGY; RISK FACTOR; SONGBIRD; SOUND DETECTION;

AVES; MAMMALIA; TIMALIIDAE; TURDOIDES BICOLOR;

ANIMALS; COOPERATIVE BEHAVIOR; PASSERIFORMES; RISK FACTORS; SOUND SPECTROGRAPHY; VOCALIZATION, ANIMAL; WIND;

EID: 80053436579     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0025010     Document Type: Article

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