reputation capital in rodentia
David Honig
honig at sprynet.com
Sat Nov 24 07:39:58 PST 2001
Ground squirrels maintain reputations. Scientists played
back alarm calls both with (to enhance) and without (to
degrade) different individuals' calls. After 10 false
alarms, that call was ignored; but the high S/N call
caused alarms even without the threat (a stuffed badger)
being present.
J Hare, B Atkins, Behav Ecol & Sociobio
reported in Sci News 160 p 312
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