Allometry of Alarm Calls: Black-Capped Chickadees Encode Information About Predator Size

By Christopher N. Templeton, E. Greene, Kate Davis. Science, 2005

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Subfields: Developmental Biology, Ecology, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics

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Wild tree squirrels respond with multisensory enhancement to conspecific robot alarm behaviour. (2009, neutral): “There may be cases, however, in which multicomponent alarm signals transmit new messages, such as the multiple audio components of chickadee alarm calls (Templeton et al. 2005).”
Alarm calls of tufted titmice convey information about predator size and threat (2010, methodology): “…chickadees increase the duration of the ‘dee’ section (i.e., all D-notes) of their ‘‘chick-a-dee’’ call, shorten the duration of the first D-note, and shorten the intervals between the first and second D-notes of their alarm calls in response to high-threat predators (Templeton et al. 2005).”
The central importance of information in studies of animal communication. (2010, background): “Playback experiments indicate that listeners acquire this information from the calls (Templeton et al. 2005).”
Semantic communication in birds: evidence from field research over the past two decades (2016, background): “Interestingly, this rule seems to be widespread in a variety of avian taxa, including Paridae (Templeton et al. 2005), Phasianidae (Wilson and Evans 2012), and Corvidae (Ellis 2008; Yorzinski and Vehrencamp 2009).”
Food-associated vocalizations in mammals and birds: what do these calls really mean? (2012, background): “…2009), as well as in bird and other mammalian species, such as fowl, Gallus gallus (Evans & Marler 1994; Evans & Evans 1999), ravens, Corvus corvax (Bugnyar et al. 2001), black-capped chickadees, Poecile atricapillus (Templeton et al. 2005) and meerkats, Suricata suricatta (Manser et al. 2001).”
A mutual understanding? Interspecific responses by birds to each other's aerial alarm calls (2007, background): “We believe that such comparisons are important, given avian alarm calls can differ in subtly different contexts (e.g., Klump and Curio 1983; Bayly and Evans 2003; Leavesley and Magrath 2005; Templeton et al. 2005), and birds can respond differently to subtly different alarm calls (e.”
Eavesdropping on other species: mutual interspecific understanding of urgency information in avian alarm calls (2010, background): “…urgency in their alarm calls (Klump & Curio 1983; Ficken 1990; Manser 2001; Müller & Manser 2008), but signalling greater danger with a greater number of elements per call or unit time seems to be common (Haftorn 1993; Leavesley & Magrath 2005; Templeton et al. 2005; Müller & Manser 2008).”
Referential mobbing calls elicit different predator-searching behaviours in Japanese great tits (2012, background): “…and titmice alter the number of ‘dee’ notes in ‘chick-a-dee’ mobbing calls according to predator size, and this variation represents urgency-based signals that elicit different degrees of mobbing response in their flockmates (Templeton et al. 2005; Soard & Ritchison 2009; Courter & Ritchison 2010).”
Antipredator calls of tufted titmice and interspecific transfer of encoded threat information (2012, methodology): “…strong evidence that within the Paridae, significant variation in chick-a-dee mobbing call structure clearly conveys perceived threat levels (Templeton et al. 2005; Soard and Ritchison 2009; Sieving et al. 2010; Courter and Ritchison 2010) and, in turn, these perceptions can be accurately…”
Reed warblers discriminate cuckoos from sparrowhawks with graded alarm signals that attract mates and neighbours (2008, background): “Several studies in birds and mammals have shown that antipredator calls can convey information about predator category (e.g. Seyfarth et al. 1980; Pereira & Macedonia 1991; Clemmons & Lambrechts 1992; Zuberb} uhler et al. 1997; Templeton et al. 2005), the immediacy of the threat (e.”
‘Chick-a-dee’ calls of Carolina chickadees convey information about degree of threat posed by avian predators (2009, methodology): “Following the protocol of Templeton et al. (2005), we also conducted experiments to determine whether the mobbing behaviour of Carolina chickadees varied when ‘chicka-dee’ calls previously given in response to different predators were played back over speakers.”
Selection for and against vocal learning in birds and mammals (2006, background): “The later includes humans of course, as well as African Grey parrots (Pepperberg 1999) and possibly black capped chickadee calls in reference to predator size (Templeton et al. 2005).”
What do animal signals mean (2009, background): “…& Meagher 1998; chickens, Gallus gallus domesticus: Evans et al. 1993; Evans & Evans 1999, 2007; Smith & Evans 2009; chickadees, Poecile atricapillus: Templeton et al. 2005; ravens, Corvus corax: Bugnyar et al. 2001) and additional organizational properties of language (e.g. syntax: Zuberbühler…”
Sound familiar? Acoustic similarity provokes responses to unfamiliar heterospecific alarm calls (2011, background): “1993), how urgent it is (Leavesley and Magrath 2005; Templeton et al. 2005), or a combination of these types of information (Manser et al.”
Chapter 8 Survivor Signals (2009, background): “atricapilla), the acoustic features of predator calls vary with the size of the predator, and receivers appear to understand the implications of the acoustic differences (Templeton et al., 2005).”