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Searching Images And The Meaning Of Alarm Calls, Alan B. Bond
Searching Images And The Meaning Of Alarm Calls, Alan B. Bond
Alan Bond Publications
The snake alarm call of Japanese tits prompts nesting adults to search for and mob the reptile until it is driven away. From playback experiments, Suzuki (2018) has inferred that the call provides an associative cue, evoking a searching image of the salient visual features of the predator—a novel approach to exploring visual attention and vocal communication in the wild.