ArticleProceedings. Biological sciences2019
Personal information about danger trumps social information from avian alarm calls.
Article in Proceedings. Biological sciences, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 8 papers.
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- The relative contribution of acoustic signals versus movement cues in group coordination and collective decision-making.Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 2024Review
- Noise constrains heterospecific eavesdropping more than conspecific reception of alarm calls.Biology letters · 2024Article
- The evolution of eavesdropping on heterospecific alarm calls: Relevance, reliability, and personal information.Ecology and evolution · 2023Article
- Speedy revelations: how alarm calls can convey rapid, reliable information about urgent danger.Proceedings. Biological sciences · 2020Article
- Nuthatches vary their alarm calls based upon the source of the eavesdropped signals.Nature communications · 2020Article
- Personal information about danger trumps social information from avian alarm calls.Proceedings. Biological sciences · 2019Article
- To flee or wait and see? Response of incubating white-browed scrubwrens to information about danger.Behavioral ecology : official journal of the International Society for Behavioral EcologyArticle
- Decoding the chaffinch "rain" call: a female-directed alarm call?Behavioral ecology : official journal of the International Society for Behavioral EcologyArticle
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Abstract
Information about predators can mean the difference between life and death, but prey face the challenge of integrating personal information about predators with social information from the alarm calls of others. This challenge might even affect the structure of interspecific information networks: species vary in response to alarm calls, potentially because different foraging ecologies constrain the acquisition of personal information. However, the hypothesis that constrained personal information explains a greater response to alarm calls has not been experimentally tested. We used a within-species test to compare the antipredator responses of New Holland honeyeaters, Phylidonyris novaehollandiae, during contrasting foraging behaviour. Compared with perched birds, which hawk for insects and have a broad view, those foraging on flowers were slower to spot gliding model predators, showing that foraging behaviour can affect predator detection. Furthermore, nectar-foraging birds were more likely to flee to alarm call playbacks. Birds also assessed social information relevance: more distant calls, and those from another species, prompted fewer flights and slower reaction times. Overall, birds made flexible decisions about danger by integrating personal and social information, while weighing information relevance. These findings support the idea that a strategic balance of personal and social information could affect community function.
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