Mobbing is an important anti-predator behavior where prey harass and attack a predator to
lower the immediate and long-term risk posed by it, warn others, and communicate about the …

Many animals use variation in their alarm calls to warn conspecifics about different predatory
threats. Information about predators can be encoded by producing discrete types of alarm …

Many vertebrates eavesdrop on alarm calls of other species, which is a remarkable ability,
given geographical variation in community composition and call diversity within and among …

Prenatal imitative learning is an emerging research area in both human and non-human
animals. Previous studies in Superb Fairywrens (Malurus cyaneus) showed that mothers are …

Personality syndromes in animals may have adaptive benefits for survival. For example,
while engaging in predator deterrence, reactive individuals tend to prioritise their own …

Do parents defend their offspring whenever necessary, and do self-sacrificing parents really
exist? Studies recognized that parent defence is dynamic, mainly depending on the threat …

Predation is a major cause of mortality and nest failure in birds. Cooperative predator
defense can enhance nest success and adult survival but, because it is inherently risky …

In the absence of top-down regulation by predators, herbivore populations irrupt. In irrupting
populations of large herbivores deaths are frequent and availability of carrion from …

Avian nests face a wide variety of nest predators, which pose different risks that could select
for the ability of parents to notify conspecifics of nest predator type. We previously …

Nest size has been suggested to be a sexually selected signal, allowing individuals to
obtain reliable information about partner quality and thereby optimize paternal investment in …