Papers in the Biological Sciences

 

Date of this Version

9-17-2018

Citation

Published in Learning & Behavior (ISSN 1543-4494), 17 September 2018.

doi 10.3758/s13420-018-0350-1

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Copyright © 2018 Psychonomic Society, Inc. Used by permission.

Abstract

The snake alarm call of Japanese tits prompts nesting adults to search for and mob the reptile until it is driven away. From playback experiments, Suzuki (2018) has inferred that the call provides an associative cue, evoking a searching image of the salient visual features of the predator—a novel approach to exploring visual attention and vocal communication in the wild.

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