Eavesdropping on heterospecific alarm calls: From mechanisms to consequences

Biological Reviews

Volumn 90, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 560-586

  Magrath, Robert D ^a   Haff, Tonya M ^a   Fallow, Pamela M ^a   Radford, Andrew N ^b  

^a AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Alarm call; Anti predator behaviour; Deception; Eavesdropping; Heterospecific eavesdropping; Information network; Interspecific eavesdropping; Mimicry; Mixed species groups; Predation

Indexed keywords

ANIMALIA; VERTEBRATA;

ANIMAL; EVOLUTION; PHYSIOLOGY; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; VOCALIZATION;

ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; VOCALIZATION, ANIMAL;

EID: 84927092056     PISSN: 14647931     EISSN: 1469185X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/brv.12122     Document Type: Article

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