Functional significance of cuckoo Cuculus canorus calls: responses of conspecifics, hosts and non-hosts

Result code in IS VaVaI

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Result on the web

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.7717/peerj.5302" target="_blank" >http://dx.doi.org/10.7717/peerj.5302</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.7717/peerj.5302" target="_blank" >10.7717/peerj.5302</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Functional significance of cuckoo Cuculus canorus calls: responses of conspecifics, hosts and non-hosts

Original language description

Male cuckoos Cuculus canorus produce calls that differ in number of syllables depending on environmental conditions and presence of male and female conspecifics. Why different males produce so repeatable calls that vary greatly in duration among males remains an open question. We used playback of cuckoo calls with few or many syllables (hereafter short and long calls), and woodpigeon calls (a control that also produces few or many syllables), predicting that playback of longer cuckoo calls should attract more male cuckoos (if males with such calls are dominant and successfully out-compete other males due to intraspecific competition), and attract more hosts mobbing male cuckoos (cuckoos with such calls and their females attract more hosts because of an increased risk of parasitism). Because cuckoos differentially parasitize hosts away from human habitation, we also tested whether the number of syllables in cuckoo calls differed with distance from buildings. Playback showed significant effects of numb

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

10511 - Environmental sciences (social aspects to be 5.7)

Project

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Continuities

S - Specificky vyzkum na vysokych skolach

Publication year

2018

Confidentiality

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

Name of the periodical

PeerJ

ISSN

2167-8359

e-ISSN

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Volume of the periodical

6

Issue of the periodical within the volume

e5302

Country of publishing house

GB - UNITED KINGDOM

Number of pages

13

Pages from-to

1-13

UT code for WoS article

000445158700001

EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-85054660154