The sound of danger: threat sensitivity to predator vocalizations, alarm calls, and novelty in gulls.

The threat sensitivity hypothesis predicts that organisms will evaluate the relative danger of and respond differentially to varying degrees of predation threat. Doing so allows potential prey to balance the costs and benefits of anti-predator behaviors. Threat sensitivity has undergone limited test...

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Main Authors: Sarah A MacLean, David N Bonter
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2013-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3855757?pdf=render