Follow the leader? Orange-fronted conures eavesdrop on conspecific vocal performance and utilise it in social decisions.

ABSTRACT: Animals regularly use social information to make fitness-relevant decisions. Particularly in social interactions, social information can reduce uncertainty about the relative quality of conspecifics, thus optimising decisions on with whom and how to interact. One important resource for individuals living in social environments is the production of information by signalling conspecifics. Recent research has suggested that some species of parrots engage in affiliative contact call matching and that these interactions may be available to conspecific unintended receivers. However, it remains unclear what information third parties may gain from contact call matching and how it can be utilised during flock decisions. Here, using a combined choice and playback experiment, we investigated the floc

SUBMITTER: Thomsen HM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8189466 | biostudies-literature | 2021

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature