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Calling at a cost: elevated nestling calling attracts predators to active nests

Begging by nestling birds has been used to test evolutionary models of signalling but theory has outstripped evidence. Eavesdropping predators potentially impose a cost on begging that ensures signal honesty, yet little experimental evidence exists for such a cost at active nests because the use of...

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Autori principali: Haff, Tonya M., Magrath, Robert D.
Natura: Artigo
Lingua:Inglês
Pubblicazione: The Royal Society 2011
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Accesso online:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3130213/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21288937
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rsbl.2010.1125
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