| Title |
Referential calls coordinate multi-species mobbing in a forest bird community
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|---|---|
| Published in |
Journal of Ethology, November 2015
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| DOI | 10.1007/s10164-015-0449-1 |
| Pubmed ID | |
| Authors |
Toshitaka N. Suzuki |
| Abstract |
Japanese great tits (Parus minor) use a sophisticated system of anti-predator communication when defending their offspring: they produce different mobbing calls for different nest predators (snake versus non-snake predators) and thereby convey this information to conspecifics (i.e. functionally referential call system). The present playback experiments revealed that these calls also serve to coordinate multi-species mobbing at nests; snake-specific mobbing calls attracted heterospecific individuals close to the sound source and elicited snake-searching behaviour, whereas non-snake mobbing calls attracted these birds at a distance. This study demonstrates for the first time that referential mobbing calls trigger different formations of multi-species mobbing parties. |
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| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Japan | 50 | 27% |
| China | 2 | 1% |
| Comoros | 1 | <1% |
| United Kingdom | 1 | <1% |
| Unknown | 129 | 70% |
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| Members of the public | 178 | 97% |
| Practitioners (doctors, other healthcare professionals) | 1 | <1% |
| Science communicators (journalists, bloggers, editors) | 1 | <1% |
| Scientists | 1 | <1% |
| Unknown | 2 | 1% |
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| Student > Ph. D. Student | 15 | 20% |
| Student > Bachelor | 13 | 18% |
| Student > Master | 9 | 12% |
| Student > Doctoral Student | 6 | 8% |
| Researcher | 5 | 7% |
| Other | 10 | 14% |
| Unknown | 16 | 22% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
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| Agricultural and Biological Sciences | 34 | 46% |
| Environmental Science | 10 | 14% |
| Neuroscience | 2 | 3% |
| Psychology | 2 | 3% |
| Nursing and Health Professions | 1 | 1% |
| Other | 6 | 8% |
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