A review of squirrel alarm-calling behavior: What we know and what we do not know about how predator attributes affect alarm calls
Forty years ago, vervet monkeys were shown to use three different predator-specific calls that elicit three different antipredator behaviors, jump-starting investigation into the information content of animal signals. Over the intervening years, our thinking about the nature of alarm calls has conti...
Main Author: | Thaddeus R. McRae |
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Animal Behavior and Cognition
2020-05-01
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Series: | Animal Behavior and Cognition |
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Online Access: | http://animalbehaviorandcognition.org/uploads/journals/27/AB_C_2020_Vol7(2)_McRae.pdf |
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