Eavesdropping on a heterospecific alarm call in the giant root-rat (Tachyorytes macrocephalus), an important prey of the Ethiopian wolf (Canis simensis)

Result code in IS VaVaI

<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F60076658%3A12310%2F20%3A43901190" target="_blank" >RIV/60076658:12310/20:43901190 - isvavai.cz</a>

Result on the web

<a href="https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs10164-019-00618-1" target="_blank" >https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs10164-019-00618-1</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10164-019-00618-1" target="_blank" >10.1007/s10164-019-00618-1</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Eavesdropping on a heterospecific alarm call in the giant root-rat (Tachyorytes macrocephalus), an important prey of the Ethiopian wolf (Canis simensis)

Original language description

The giant root-rat of the Bale Mountains, Ethiopia has been reported to have a mutualistic relationship with a passerine, which involves eavesdropping on its alarm call. We tested this in a field playback experiment. Besides the alarm call, we included two sounds potentially acting as alarm cues and one as a control. Little reaction of root-rats was detected to the bird alarm call. However, intensive reaction was detected to an alarm call of the black-clawed brush-furred rat, a social rodent often occupying root-rats&apos; burrows. This result is understandable given the two rodents have the same principal predator, the Ethiopian wolf.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_imp - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

10613 - Zoology

Project

<a href="/en/project/GAP506%2F11%2F1512" target="_blank" >GAP506/11/1512: Into the underground: Comparative study of rodents with different level of adaptation to subterranean life.</a><br>

Continuities

S - Specificky vyzkum na vysokych skolach

Publication year

2020

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Journal of Ethology

ISSN

0289-0771

e-ISSN

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Volume of the periodical

38

Issue of the periodical within the volume

1

Country of publishing house

JP - JAPAN

Number of pages

4

Pages from-to

121-124

UT code for WoS article

000511711900013

EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-85074491444