Referential calls coordinate multi-species mobbing in a forest bird community

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• 作者：Toshitaka N. Suzuki
• 关键词：Birds ; Mobbing calls ; Multi ; species mobbing ; Playback experiment ; Referential signal
• 刊名：Journal of Ethology
• 出版年：2016
• 出版时间：January 2016
• 年：2016
• 卷：34
• 期：1
• 页码：79-84
• 全文大小：422 KB
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• 作者单位：Toshitaka N. Suzuki (1)
  
  1. Department of Evolutionary Studies of Biosystems, The Graduate University for Advanced Studies (SOKENDAI), Hayama, 240-0193, Kanagawa, Japan
  
• 刊物类别：Biomedical and Life Sciences
• 刊物主题：Life Sciences
  Zoology
  Behavioural Sciences
  Animal Ecology
  Evolutionary Biology
  Neurosciences
  
• 出版者：Springer Japan
• ISSN：1439-5444

文摘

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. Keywords Birds Mobbing calls Multi-species mobbing Playback experiment Referential signal