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SUBMITTER: Lawson SL
PROVIDER: S-EPMC7109080 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Mar
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Lawson Shelby L SL Enos Janice K JK Mendes Niko C NC Gill Sharon A SA Hauber Mark E ME
Communications biology 20200331 1
Referential alarm calls occur across taxa to warn of specific predator types. However, referential calls may also denote other types of dangers. Yellow warblers (Setophaga petechia) produce "seet" calls specifically to warn conspecifics of obligate brood parasitic brown-headed cowbirds (Molothrus ater), which lay their eggs in the warblers' and other species' nests. Sympatric hosts of cowbirds that do not have referential alarm calls may eavesdrop on the yellow warbler's seet call as a warning s ...[more]