ArticleScientific reports2018
Caller characteristics influence recruitment to collective anti-predator events in jackdaws.
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- Nuthatches vary their alarm calls based upon the source of the eavesdropped signals.Nature communications · 2020Article
- Behavioural plasticity and the transition to order in jackdaw flocks.Nature communications · 2019Article
- Collective turns in jackdaw flocks: kinematics and information transfer.Journal of the Royal Society, Interface · 2019Article
- Evidence for individual discrimination and numerical assessment in collective antipredator behaviour in wild jackdaws (Biology letters · 2019Article
- Social learning about dangerous people by wild jackdaws.Royal Society open science · 2019Article
- Testing relationship recognition in wild jackdaws (Corvus monedula).Scientific reports · 2019Article
- Wild jackdaws are wary of objects that violate expectations of animacy.Royal Society open science · 2018Article
- Genetic monogamy despite frequent extrapair copulations in "strictly monogamous" wild jackdaws.Behavioral ecology : official journal of the International Society for Behavioral EcologyArticle
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Abstract
Across the animal kingdom, examples abound of individuals coming together to repel external threats. When such collective actions are initiated by recruitment signals, individuals may benefit from being selective in whom they join, so the identity of the initiator may determine the magnitude of the group response. However, the role of signaller discrimination in coordinating group-level responses has yet to be tested. Here we show that in wild jackdaws, a colonial corvid species, collective responses to anti-predator recruitment calls are mediated by caller characteristics. In playbacks next to nestboxes, the calls of nestbox residents attracted most recruits, followed in turn by other colony members, non-colony members and rooks (a sympatric corvid). Playbacks in fields outside nestbox colonies, where the immediate threat to broods was lower, showed similar results, with highest recruitment to nearby colony members' calls. Responses were further influenced by caller sex: calls from non-colony member females were less likely to elicit responsive scolding by recruits than other calls, potentially reflecting social rank associated with sex and colony membership. These results show that vocal discrimination mediates jackdaws' collective responses and highlight the need for further research into the cognitive basis of collective actions in animal groups.
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