The adaptive significance of avian mobbing: II. Cultural transmission of enemy recognition in blackbirds: Effectiveness and some constraints.

By E. Curio, U. Ernst, Willy Vieth. 2010

181 citations recorded by the source corpus.

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

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In Developmental Biology

1. K. Zuberbühler
2. Toshitaka N. Suzuki
3. Kate Arnold
4. Brandon C. Wheeler
5. Zanna Clay
6. W. Eckardt

In Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics

1. K. Zuberbühler
2. Toshitaka N. Suzuki
3. Kate Arnold
4. Christophe Boesch
5. Brandon C. Wheeler
6. W. Eckardt

In Social Psychology

1. K. Zuberbühler
2. Toshitaka N. Suzuki
3. Kate Arnold
4. Brandon C. Wheeler
5. Christophe Boesch
6. W. Eckardt

Citations in the corpus

• Chapter 8 Survivor Signals (2009, background): “In meerkats (Suricata suricatta), mobbing is performed not only to deter predators but also to gather information and to allow young to learn about predators by observing adults, a hypothesis suggested on other occasions (Curio et al., 1978; Graw and Manser, 2007).”
• Heterospecific eavesdropping in a nonsocial species (2008, unknown): “larm calls function as a targeted alert system used in several contexts to: alert conspecifics of potential danger (Weary and Kramer 1995), warn a predator that it has been spotted (Hasson 1991), and recruit nearby individuals for mobbing defense ( Curio et al. 1978 ) or to call in the predator of t”