Predator-elicited visual signal: why the turquoise-browed motmot wag-displays its racketed tail
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Predator-elicited visual signal: why the turquoise-browed motmot wag-displays its racketed tail
Both sexes of the turquoise-browed motmot (Eumomota superciliosa) perform a wag-display in the presence of predators, whereby their long racketed tail is repeatedly rocked side-to-side in a pendulous fashion. I tested 3 hypotheses for the function of the predator-elicited wag-display: 1) pursuit-deterrent signal, 2) warning alarm signal, and 3) self-preservation alarm signal. These hypotheses w...
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عنوان ژورنال: Behavioral Ecology
سال: 2006
ISSN: 1465-7279,1045-2249
DOI: 10.1093/beheco/arj064