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FEED, FLEE, OR FACT-FIND: MODELING LATENT COGNITIVE-MECHANISTIC RESPONSES TO HETEROSPECIFIC ALARM CALLS FOR FORAGING CARDINALS

Heterospecific alarm calls allow animals to obtain information about predators from other species, but how receivers translate different forms of alarm information into defensive behavior remains poorly understood. In particular, signals may differ in whether they elicit rapid, relatively stereotyped responses or permit more graded evaluation of threat. We investigated this possibility by…

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