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- Title
Imagery in wild birds: Retrieval of visual information from referential alarm calls.
- Authors
Suzuki, Toshitaka N.
- Abstract
Japanese tits (Parus minor) produce specific alarm calls when they encounter a predatory snake. A recent field experiment showed that receiver tits became visually perceptive to an object resembling a snake when hearing these calls. However, the tits did not respond to the same object when hearing other call types or when the object was dissimilar to a snake. These findings provide the first experimental evidence for the retrieval of a visual search image from specific alarm calls, offering a novel approach for investigating the cognitive mechanisms underlying referential communication in wild animals.
- Publication
Learning & Behavior, 2019, Vol 47, Issue 2, p111
- ISSN
1543-4494
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.3758/s13420-019-00374-9