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Effect of nestlings' age on parental responses to a predatory snake in Parus minor

Title
Effect of nestlings' age on parental responses to a predatory snake in Parus minor
Author(s)
Ha, Jung MoonLee, KeesanYang, Eun JeongKim, Woo JooSong, Ho KyeongHwang, In JeLee, Sang ImJablonski, Piotr G.
DGIST Authors
Lee, Sang Im
Issued Date
2018-04
Type
Article
Article Type
Article
Author Keywords
birdsParus minoranti-predatormobbing callsnakepredator presentationnestlings&aposagereferential call
Keywords
ALARM CALLSNEST DEFENSEANTIPREDATOR BEHAVIORMOBBING CALLSLIFE-HISTORYRECOGNITIONBIRDSIZECOMMUNICATIONINFORMATION
ISSN
0005-7959
Abstract
Predator-specific alarm calls may have a variety of context-specific functions. Parents of the oriental tit, Parus minor, use the 'jar' call in response to the presence of a snake near the nests, and the nestlings respond by escaping the nest cavity. This specific function can be observed only when nestlings are able to fledge. Do tits use the 'jar' call only in a situation when nestlings are physically able to jump out of the nest? We measured parental responses to live snake in 8 nests. The use of 'jar' call by parents was not modified by the ability of their nestlings to escape out of the nest. This suggests that fledging in response to 'jar' call by old nestlings evolved later than the evolutionary emergence of referential snake alarm calls, and that the ancestral function of 'jar' call was probably not related to triggering of fledging in old nestlings. © 2018 Copyright 2018 by Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, The Netherlands.
URI
http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11750/6295
DOI
10.1163/1568539X-00003491
Publisher
Brill Academic Publishers
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