Superb fairy-wrens respond more to alarm calls from mate and kin compared to unrelated individuals

Diane Colombelli-Négrel and Christine Evans

Behavioral Ecology, 2017, vol. 28, issue 4, 1101-1112

Abstract: Lay SummaryIndividual discrimination can influence social behaviors. Here, we show that superb fairy-wrens (Malurus cyaneus), a cooperative bird species, have individually distinct mobbing alarm calls and that receivers discriminated between 2 unfamiliar individuals using mobbing alarm calls alone. Superb fairy-wrens also responded differently to playback of calls from their mate and kin versus individuals from another population.

Keywords: alarm; calls; fairy-wrens; kin discrimination (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2017
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