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Social learning of a brood parasite by its host

Date

Authors

Feeney, William

Langmore, Naomi

Publisher

Royal Society of London

Abstract

Arms races between brood parasites and their hosts provide model systems for studying the evolutionary repercussions of species interactions.However, how naive hosts identify brood parasites as enemies remains poorly understood, despite its ecological and

Keywords

Keywords: alarm signal; arms race; avifauna; bird; brood parasitism; host-parasite interaction; learning; mobbing; social behavior Brood parasitism; Coevolution; Cuckoo; Social learning

URI

http://hdl.handle.net/1885/73619

Collections

ANU Research Publications

Source

Biology Letters

Type

Journal article

DOI

10.1098/rsbl.2013.0443

Restricted until

2037-12-31

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