Bond Alan B
School of Biological Sciences, University of Nebraska, 402 Manter Hall, UNL, Lincoln, NE, 68588-0118, USA.
Learn Behav. 2019 Jun;47(2):109-110. doi: 10.3758/s13420-018-0350-1.
The snake alarm call of Japanese tits prompts nesting adults to search for and mob the reptile until it is driven away. From playback experiments, Suzuki (2018) has inferred that the call provides an associative cue, evoking a searching image of the salient visual features of the predator-a novel approach to exploring visual attention and vocal communication in the wild.
日本山雀发出的蛇警报叫声会促使正在筑巢的成年山雀去寻找并围攻这种爬行动物,直到它被赶走。通过回放实验,铃木(2018年)推断,这种叫声提供了一种联想线索,唤起了捕食者显著视觉特征的搜索图像——这是一种探索野外视觉注意力和声音交流的新方法。