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Speedy revelations: how alarm calls can convey rapid, reliable information about urgent danger.
Article in Proceedings. Biological sciences, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 9 papers.
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- The 'seet' danger call: an active nest warning in superb fairy-wrens.Royal Society open science · 2025Article
- Predator experience enhances giraffe vigilance to oxpecker alarm calls.BMC biology · 2025Article
- Does Zipf's law of abbreviation shape birdsong?PLoS computational biology · 2025Article
- The duration of alarm- and territorial defence calls alters receiver response in Eurasian magpies.Animal cognition · 2025Article
- Differential neural decoding of alarm and avoidance information from vocal alarm calls in humans.Communications biology · 2025Article
- A primate grammar enabling incremental processing.iScience · 2025Article
- Speedy revelations: how alarm calls can convey rapid, reliable information about urgent danger.Proceedings. Biological sciences · 2020Article
- Differential weighting of lion vocalizations and oxpecker alarm calls in giraffes.Behavioral ecology : official journal of the International Society for Behavioral EcologyArticle
- 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
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Abstract
In the perpetual struggle between high-speed predators and their prey, individuals need to react in the blink of an eye to avoid capture. Alarm calls that warn of danger therefore need to do so sufficiently rapidly that listeners can escape in time. Paradoxically, many species produce more elements in their alarm calls when signalling about more immediate danger, thereby increasing the reliability of transmission of critical information but taking longer to convey the urgent message. We found that New Holland honeyeaters,
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