If a bird flies in the forest, does an insect hear it?

Biology Letters

Volumn 9, Issue 5, 2013, Pages

  Fournier, J P ^a   Dawson, J W ^a   Mikhail, A ^a   Yack, J E ^a  

^a CARLETON UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Anti predator; Bird flight; Foraging; Hearing; Insect; Sound

Indexed keywords

ANTIPREDATOR DEFENSE; AVIFAUNA; CRYPSIS; ENTOMOLOGY; FLIGHT; FORAGING BEHAVIOR; HEARING; INSECT; PASSERINE;

AVES; CICADA; CICADIDAE; ENSIFERA (HUMMINGBIRD); ENSIFERA (INSECTS); GRYLLIDAE; HEXAPODA; LEPIDOPTERA; MORPHO PELEIDES; NOCTUIDAE; NYMPHALIDAE; PAPILIONOIDEA; PARIDAE; PARUS ATRICAPILLUS; SAYORNIS PHOEBE; TRICHOPLUSIA NI;

ANIMAL; BUTTERFLY; MOTH; PHYSIOLOGY; SONGBIRD; SOUND;

ANIMALS; BUTTERFLIES; MOTHS; SONGBIRDS; SOUND;

EID: 84891707734     PISSN: 17449561     EISSN: 1744957X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsbl.2013.0319     Document Type: Article

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