A comparative study of how British tits encode predator threat in their mobbing calls

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  2017

• Venue

  Animal Behaviour

• Publication date

  2017-03-01

• Fields of study

  Biology, Environmental Science

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  DOI 10.1016/J.ANBEHAV.2017.01.011
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