Animal Communication: Learning by Listening about Danger
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DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2018.07.039
Abstract: A variety of animals eavesdrop and learn to use other species' alarm calls to avoid predators. Superb fairy-wrens, when hearing unfamiliar calls together with known alarm calls, can learn to associate these new calls with… read more here.
Keywords: listening danger; animal communication; learning listening; communication learning ... See more keywords
Animal communication: Lyrebirds ‘cry wolf’ during mating
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DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2021.04.070
Abstract: During courtship, male lyrebirds create acoustic illusions of a flock of birds fending off a predator. These realistic illusions fool the imitated species to engage in mobbing, but intriguingly lyrebirds produce them only preceding or… read more here.
Keywords: communication lyrebirds; animal communication; cry wolf; wolf mating ... See more keywords