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Fork-tailed drongos use deceptive mimicked alarm calls to steal food

Despite the prevalence of vocal mimicry in animals, few functions for this behaviour have been shown. I propose a novel hypothesis that false mimicked alarm calls could be used deceptively to scare other species and steal their food. Studies have previously suggested that animals use their own speci...

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1. Verfasser: Flower, Tom
Format: Artigo
Sprache:Inglês
Veröffentlicht: The Royal Society 2011
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Online Zugang:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3081750/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21047861
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2010.1932
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