Ravens adjust their antipredatory responses to con‐ and hetero‐specific alarms to the perceived threat

• Published in: Ethology
• Main Authors: Nácarová, Jana, Veselý, Petr, Bugnyar, Thomas
• Other Authors: Tregenza, T., Austrian Science Fund, Jihočeská Univerzita v Českých Budějovicích
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Wiley 2018
• Subjects: Parus; The Ravens; Canis lupus
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/eth.12764; https://api.wiley.com/onlinelibrary/tdm/v1/articles/10.1111%2Feth.12764; https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1111/eth.12764

Abstract Heterospecific alarm calls are typically found in situations where multiple species have a common predator. In birds, they are particularly common in mixed mixed‐species flocks. In species with highly developed social and cognitive abilities like corvids, there is the potential for differen...