Female cuckoo calls elicit vigilance and escape responses from wild free-range chickens

Heterospecific alarm-call recognition in two warbler hosts of common cuckoos

(2019) Jiangping Yu et al.   ANIMAL COGNITION

Eavesdropping grey squirrels infer safety from bird chatter

(2019) Marie V. Lilly et al.   PLoS One

Comparative analysis of hissing calls in five tit species

(2019) Li Zhang et al.   BEHAVIOURAL PROCESSES

Aggressive mimicry of the cleaner wrasse by Aspidontus taeniatus functions mainly for small blennies

(2018) Misaki Fujisawa et al.   ETHOLOGY

Functional significance of cuckoo Cuculus canorus calls: responses of conspecifics, hosts and non-hosts

(2018) Piotr Tryjanowski et al.   PeerJ

Mimicry, Camouflage and Perceptual Exploitation: the Evolution of Deception in Nature

(2018) Enrique Font   Biosemiotics

Hawk mimicry does not reduce attacks of cuckoos by highly aggressive hosts

(2018) Laikun Ma et al.   Avian Research

Alarm call-based discrimination between common cuckoo and Eurasian sparrowhawk in a Chinese population of great tits

(2017) Jiangping Yu et al.   ETHOLOGY

Female cuckoo calls misdirect host defences towards the wrong enemy

(2017) Jenny E. York et al.   Nature Ecology & Evolution

Mobbing behaviour varies according to predator dangerousness and occurrence

(2016) Mylène Dutour et al.   ANIMAL BEHAVIOUR

Geographic variation in egg ejection rate by great tits across 2 continents

(2016) Wei Liang et al.   BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY

Prey reduce risk-taking and abundance in the proximity of predators

(2016) Anders. P. Møller et al.   Current Zoology

Mimicry for all modalities

(2016) Anastasia H. Dalziell et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Fear of large carnivores causes a trophic cascade

(2016) Justin P. Suraci et al.   Nature Communications

Prey reduce risk-taking and abundance in the proximity of predators

(2016) Anders. P. Møller et al.   Current Zoology

Barn swallows (Hirundo rustica) differentiate between common cuckoo and sparrowhawk in China: alarm calls convey information on threat

(2015) Jiangping Yu et al.   BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY AND SOCIOBIOLOGY

Do rufous common cuckoo females indeed mimic a predator? An experimental test

(2015) Alfréd Trnka et al.   BIOLOGICAL JOURNAL OF THE LINNEAN SOCIETY

Crying wolf to a predator: deceptive vocal mimicry by a bird protecting young

(2015) Branislav Igic et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Assessment of predation risk through referential communication in incubating birds

(2015) Toshitaka N. Suzuki   Scientific Reports

A songbird mimics different heterospecific alarm calls in response to different types of threat

(2014) Branislav Igic et al.   BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY

Eavesdropping on heterospecific alarm calls: from mechanisms to consequences

(2014) Robert D. Magrath et al.   BIOLOGICAL REVIEWS

Deception by Flexible Alarm Mimicry in an African Bird

(2014) T. P. Flower et al.   SCIENCE

Hissing calls improve survival in incubating female great tits (Parus major)

(2013) Indrikis Krams et al.   ACTA ETHOLOGICA

Novel effects of monitoring predators on costs of fleeing and not fleeing explain flushing early in economic escape theory

(2013) W. E. Cooper et al.   BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY

Long-term coevolution between avian brood parasites and their hosts

(2013) Manuel Soler   BIOLOGICAL REVIEWS

On the Meaning of Alarm Calls: A Review of Functional Reference in Avian Alarm Calling

(2013) Sharon A. Gill et al.   ETHOLOGY

Asymmetries in commitment in an avian communication network

(2013) Christoph Randler et al.   NATURWISSENSCHAFTEN

Maternal predator-exposure has lifelong consequences for offspring learning in threespined sticklebacks

(2012) D. P. Roche et al.   Biology Letters

Cuckoos Combat Socially Transmitted Defenses of Reed Warbler Hosts with a Plumage Polymorphism

(2012) R. Thorogood et al.   SCIENCE

The effectiveness of hawk mimicry in protecting cuckoos from aggressive hosts

(2011) Alfréd Trnka et al.   ANIMAL BEHAVIOUR

A parasite in wolf's clothing: hawk mimicry reduces mobbing of cuckoos by hosts

(2011) Justin A. Welbergen et al.   BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY

Parental alarm calls warn nestlings about different predatory threats

(2011) Toshitaka N. Suzuki   CURRENT BIOLOGY

The difference between night and day: antipredator behavior in birds

(2011) Jessica L. Yorzinski et al.   JOURNAL OF ETHOLOGY

Visual mimicry of host nestlings by cuckoos

(2011) N. E. Langmore et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Orchid pollination by sexual deception: pollinator perspectives

(2010) A. C. Gaskett   BIOLOGICAL REVIEWS

Rattlesnake Rattles and Burrowing Owl Hisses: A Case of Acoustic Batesian Mimicry

(2010) Matthew P. Rowe et al.   ETHOLOGY

Non-lethal effects of predation in birds

(2010) WILL CRESSWELL   IBIS

Whole-genome resequencing reveals loci under selection during chicken domestication

(2010) Carl-Johan Rubin et al.   NATURE

Fork-tailed drongos use deceptive mimicked alarm calls to steal food

(2010) T. Flower   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Why do birds participate in mixed-species foraging flocks? A large-scale synthesis

(2009) Hari Sridhar et al.   ANIMAL BEHAVIOUR

Predators and the breeding bird: behavioral and reproductive flexibility under the risk of predation

(2009) Steven L. Lima   BIOLOGICAL REVIEWS

The Effect of Predator Type and Danger Level on the Mob Calls of the American Crow

(2009) Jessica L. Yorzinski et al.   CONDOR

Social Transmission of a Host Defense Against Cuckoo Parasitism

(2009) N. B. Davies et al.   SCIENCE

Vocal mimicry in songbirds

(2008) Laura A. Kelley et al.   ANIMAL BEHAVIOUR

Reed warblers discriminate cuckoos from sparrowhawks with graded alarm signals that attract mates and neighbours

(2008) J.A. Welbergen et al.   ANIMAL BEHAVIOUR

Referential Calls Signal Predator Behavior in a Group-Living Bird Species

(2008) Michael Griesser   CURRENT BIOLOGY

Responses of breeding Reed Warblers Acrocephalus scirpaceus to mounts of Sparrowhawk Accipiter nisus, Cuckoo Cuculus canorus and Jay Garrulus glandarius

(2008) J. W. DUCKWORTH   IBIS

Cuckoo-hawk mimicry? An experimental test

(2008) N.B Davies et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES