Animal Communication: Learning by Listening about Danger
- PMID: 30130514
- DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2018.07.039
Animal Communication: Learning by Listening about Danger
Abstract
A variety of animals eavesdrop and learn to use other species' alarm calls to avoid predators. Superb fairy-wrens, when hearing unfamiliar calls together with known alarm calls, can learn to associate these new calls with danger.
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Birds Learn Socially to Recognize Heterospecific Alarm Calls by Acoustic Association.Curr Biol. 2018 Aug 20;28(16):2632-2637.e4. doi: 10.1016/j.cub.2018.06.013. Epub 2018 Aug 2. Curr Biol. 2018. PMID: 30078559
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