On the meaning of alarm calls: functional reference in an avian vocal system
@article{Evans1993OnTM, title={On the meaning of alarm calls: functional reference in an avian vocal system}, author={C. S. Evans and L. Evans and P. Marler}, journal={Animal Behaviour}, year={1993}, volume={46}, pages={23-38} }
Abstract Abstract. Male chickens, Gallus gallus , produce qualitatively different alarm calls in response to terrestrial and aerial predators. Field observations suggest that ground alarm calls are evoked principally by animals moving on the substrate, while aerial alarm calls are produced in response to objects moving overhead. In the present study, both types of alarm call were elicited in the laboratory using visual stimuli presented on a video-monitor. Aerial alarm calls were reliably… CONTINUE READING
Topics from this paper
372 Citations
Dynamic changes in alarm call structure: A strategy for reducing conspicuousness to avian predators?
- Computer Science
- 2003
- 51
Responses of vervet monkeys in large troops to terrestrial and aerial predator alarm calls
- Biology
- 2014
- 41
- PDF
Golden-marmot alarm calls. II: Asymmetrical production and perception of situationally specific vocalizations ?
- Psychology
- 2010
- 15
On the Meaning of Alarm Calls: A Review of Functional Reference in Avian Alarm Calling
- Biology
- 2013
- 81
- Highly Influenced
- PDF
Alarm calling in yellow-bellied marmots: I. The meaning of situationally variable alarm calls
- Psychology
- Animal Behaviour
- 1997
- 209
- PDF
Sound familiar? Acoustic similarity provokes responses to unfamiliar heterospecific alarm calls
- Biology
- 2011
- 66
- PDF
Fowl communicate the size, speed and proximity of avian stimuli through graded structure in referential alarm calls
- Biology
- Animal Behaviour
- 2012
- 39
- PDF