Animal acoustic communication often takes the form of complex sequences, made up of
multiple distinct acoustic units. Apart from the well‐known example of birdsong, other …

A long‐standing question in animal communication is whether signals reveal intrinsic
properties of the signaller or extrinsic properties of its environment. Alarm calls, one of the …

Literature Cited to accompany Animal Communication, 2e Page 1 Principles of Animal
Communication, Second Edition Jack W. Bradbury and Sandra L. Vehrencamp Chapter 14 …

Many animals produce alarm signals when they detect a potential predator, but we still know
little about the information contained in these signals. Using presentations of 15 species of …

Many animals use variation in their alarm calls to warn conspecifics about different predatory
threats. Information about predators can be encoded by producing discrete types of alarm …

Alarm calls are interesting for both proximate and ultimate reasons. Because of their usually
close connection with relevant events in the environment, they can reveal much about the …

Many birds utter alarm calls when they encounter predators, and previous work has
revealed that variation in the characteristics of the alarm, or “chick-a-dee,” calls of black …

What do animal signals mean? This is a central question in studies on animal
communication. Research into the semantics of animal signals began in 1980, with …

The Paridae family (chickadees, tits and titmice) is an interesting avian group in that species
vary in important aspects of their social structure and many species have large and complex …

Highlights•Vertebrates respond to conspecific and heterospecific mobbing calls.•We used
playbacks to investigate if prior experience is required to elicit mobbing.•The bird species …