Referential mobbing calls elicit different predator-searching behaviours in Japanese great tits

Animal Behaviour

Volumn 84, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 53-57

  Suzuki, Toshitaka N ^a  

^a RIKKYO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Alarm call; Communication; Great tit; Mobbing call; Nest predation; Parus major minor; Referential signal

Indexed keywords

ALARM SIGNAL; BIOACOUSTICS; CALLING BEHAVIOR; CONSPECIFIC; ESCAPE BEHAVIOR; MOBBING; NEST PREDATION; PASSERINE; PREDATION RISK;

ANIMALIA; AVES; CORVIDAE; CORVUS MACRORHYNCHOS; ELAPHE CLIMACOPHORA; MAMMALIA; PARUS MINOR; RATTUS; SERPENTES;

EID: 84862661934     PISSN: 00033472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.anbehav.2012.03.030     Document Type: Article

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