Parental alarm calls warn nestlings about different predatory threats
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Acknowledgements I thank J. Fullard, A. Kale, L. Johnston, and J. Secombe for comments on the manuscript, and M. Brodsky, M. Gonzalez-Gaitan, T. Igaki, L. Johnston, E. Moreno, and D. Shafritz for discussions and communicating unpublished information. I apologize sincerely to the many authors whose studies could not be cited directly in the format of a Primer article. Research in the author’s laboratory is supported by the NIH.
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عنوان ژورنال:
- Current Biology
دوره 21 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 2011