Predation as a cost of sexual communication in nocturnal seabirds: an experimental approach using acoustic signals
International audience Conspicuous behaviour, such as sexual advertisement, exposes animals to predation; mate attraction thus often conflicts with antipredator behaviour. We investigated whether an avian predator, the brown skua, Catharacta antarctica lo¨nnbergi, uses the mate attraction calls of c...
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ftunivnantes:oai:HAL:hal-00193498v1 2023-05-15T13:37:48+02:00 Predation as a cost of sexual communication in nocturnal seabirds: an experimental approach using acoustic signals Mougeot, François Bretagnolle, Vincent Centre for Ecology and Hydrology Banchory Research Station Centre d'Études Biologiques de Chizé (CEBC) Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) 2000 https://hal.science/hal-00193498 https://doi.org/10.1006/anbe.2000.1491 en eng HAL CCSD Elsevier Masson info:eu-repo/semantics/altIdentifier/doi/10.1006/anbe.2000.1491 hal-00193498 https://hal.science/hal-00193498 doi:10.1006/anbe.2000.1491 ISSN: 0003-3472 EISSN: 1095-8282 Animal Behaviour https://hal.science/hal-00193498 Animal Behaviour, 2000, 60, pp.647-656. ⟨10.1006/anbe.2000.1491⟩ [SDE.BE]Environmental Sciences/Biodiversity and Ecology info:eu-repo/semantics/article Journal articles 2000 ftunivnantes https://doi.org/10.1006/anbe.2000.1491 2023-02-08T08:12:23Z International audience Conspicuous behaviour, such as sexual advertisement, exposes animals to predation; mate attraction thus often conflicts with antipredator behaviour. We investigated whether an avian predator, the brown skua, Catharacta antarctica lo¨nnbergi, uses the mate attraction calls of colonial seabirds, the petrels. The majority of petrels attract mates at night and vocalizations are their main way of communicating. At our study sites, skua predation on nocturnal petrels was heavy, and concentrated particularly on a single species, the blue petrel, Halobaena caerulea. Using playback experiments, we showed that skuas can use male petrel calls as a cue for prey location and selection. This listening behaviour of skuas probably imposes a major constraint on advertising petrels, and especially on single males which face a trade-off between attracting females (which respond by calling in flight) and avoiding predation. We also investigated the consequences of this predation risk on the behaviour of petrels: a second set of playback experiments showed that the most heavily preyed on petrel species could use skua territorial calls to infer predation risk and stop calling thereafter, which may reduce conspicuousness and predation risk. Article in Journal/Newspaper Antarc* Antarctica Brown Skua Université de Nantes: HAL-UNIV-NANTES Animal Behaviour 60 5 647 656 |
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International audience Conspicuous behaviour, such as sexual advertisement, exposes animals to predation; mate attraction thus often conflicts with antipredator behaviour. We investigated whether an avian predator, the brown skua, Catharacta antarctica lo¨nnbergi, uses the mate attraction calls of colonial seabirds, the petrels. The majority of petrels attract mates at night and vocalizations are their main way of communicating. At our study sites, skua predation on nocturnal petrels was heavy, and concentrated particularly on a single species, the blue petrel, Halobaena caerulea. Using playback experiments, we showed that skuas can use male petrel calls as a cue for prey location and selection. This listening behaviour of skuas probably imposes a major constraint on advertising petrels, and especially on single males which face a trade-off between attracting females (which respond by calling in flight) and avoiding predation. We also investigated the consequences of this predation risk on the behaviour of petrels: a second set of playback experiments showed that the most heavily preyed on petrel species could use skua territorial calls to infer predation risk and stop calling thereafter, which may reduce conspicuousness and predation risk. |
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Predation as a cost of sexual communication in nocturnal seabirds: an experimental approach using acoustic signals |
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Predation as a cost of sexual communication in nocturnal seabirds: an experimental approach using acoustic signals |
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Predation as a cost of sexual communication in nocturnal seabirds: an experimental approach using acoustic signals |
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Predation as a cost of sexual communication in nocturnal seabirds: an experimental approach using acoustic signals |
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Predation as a cost of sexual communication in nocturnal seabirds: an experimental approach using acoustic signals |
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predation as a cost of sexual communication in nocturnal seabirds: an experimental approach using acoustic signals |
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ISSN: 0003-3472 EISSN: 1095-8282 Animal Behaviour https://hal.science/hal-00193498 Animal Behaviour, 2000, 60, pp.647-656. ⟨10.1006/anbe.2000.1491⟩ |
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