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Nestlings reduce their predation risk by attending to predator-information encoded within conspecific alarm calls

Predation is one of the main threats to altricial nestlings, with predators often locating nests via eavesdropping on begging signals. Nestlings may be able to adjust their begging based on the current level of risk by monitoring both intra- and interspecific alarm calls near the nest. We show that...

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Autores principales: Barati, Ahmad, McDonald, Paul G.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Nature Publishing Group UK 2017
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5601946/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28916776
http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41598-017-11528-y