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Silence is not golden: the hissing calls of tits affect the behaviour of a nest predator

ABSTRACT: Nest predation is one of the most important mortality factors of birds. Field observations showed that tits (Paridae) produce hissing calls and, usually, have lower breeding losses than nesting Ficedula flycatchers, which do not make such calls. We hypothesise that differences in fledgling...

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Autores principales: Zub, Karol, Czeszczewik, Dorota, Ruczyński, Ireneusz, Kapusta, Anna, Walankiewicz, Wiesław
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Springer Berlin Heidelberg 2017
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5383675/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28435180
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00265-017-2313-5