The DOI matches its Crossref record; 26 of the 26 references it cites were found in a registry or an index.
Nuthatches eavesdrop on variations in heterospecific chickadee mobbing alarm calls
Open accessAbstract
Many animals recognize the alarm calls produced by other species, but the amount of information they glean from these eavesdropped signals is unknown. We previously showed that black-capped chickadees ( Poecile atricapillus ) have a sophisticated alarm call system in which they encode complex information about the size and risk of potential predators in variations of a single type of mobbing alarm call. Here we show experimentally that red-breasted nuthatches ( Sitta canadensis ) respond appropriately to subtle variations of these heterospecific “ chick-a-dee ” alarm calls, thereby evidencing that they have gained important information about potential predators in their environment. This study demonstrates a previously unsuspected level of discrimination in intertaxon eavesdropping.
Overview
The claims and statistics of this paper haven’t been checked yet.
Run the check — free, no account needed. It reads the open-access text and checks the sources it cites.
Integrity signals
Registry
Cites
Statistics
Verification
Claims the paper makes
The claims and statistics of this paper haven’t been checked yet.
Run the check — free, no account needed. It reads the open-access text and checks the sources it cites.
Self-check
Percentages, sums and reported differences re-computed from the paper’s own numbers.
The self-check needs the paper’s full text.
Citations
Cites
Ecology and evolution of acoustic communication in birds
(1997) · Choice Reviews Online · doi:10.5860/choice.34-2751 · Cited by 1,263
Antipredator Defenses in Birds and Mammals.
Grubb, T. C. (2006) · The Auk · doi:10.1093/auk/123.2.601 · Cited by 1,104
Ecology and Evolution of Acoustic Communication in Birds.
Nelson, D. A., Kroodsma, D. E., & Miller, E. H. (1997) · Ecology · doi:10.2307/2266158 · Cited by 964
Antipredator defenses in birds and mammals
(2006) · Choice Reviews Online · doi:10.5860/choice.43-2800 · Cited by 956
Allometry of Alarm Calls: Black-Capped Chickadees Encode Information About Predator Size
Templeton, C. N., Greene, E., & Davis, K. (2005) · Science · doi:10.1126/science.1108841 · Cited by 675
Self-citationCharacteristics of Some Animal Calls
MARLER, P. (1955) · Nature · doi:10.1038/176006a0 · Cited by 584
Suggested experimental designs for song playbacks
Kroodsma, D. E. (1989) · Animal Behaviour · doi:10.1016/0003-3472(89)90039-0 · Cited by 422
Macedonia, J. M., & Evans, C. S. (1993) · Ethology · doi:10.1111/j.1439-0310.1993.tb00988.x · Cited by 422
Optimal strategies for predator avoidance: The relative importance of speed and manoeuvrability
Howland, H. C. (1974) · Journal of Theoretical Biology · doi:10.1016/0022-5193(74)90202-1 · Cited by 412
Know thine enemy: fighting fish gather information from observing conspecific interactions
Oliveira, R. F., McGregor, P. K., & Latruffe, C. (1998) · Proceedings of the Royal Society of London. Series B: Biological Sciences · doi:10.1098/rspb.1998.0397 · Cited by 364
Cited by
Brosschot, J., Verkuil, B., & Thayer, J. (2018) · International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health · doi:10.3390/ijerph15030464 · Cited by 244
Metadata
- Authors
- Templeton, C. N., & Greene, E.
- Venue
- Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
- Published
- 2007-03-27
- Volume
- 104
- Issue
- 13
- Pages
- 5479-5482
- ISSN
- 0027-8424 (ISSN-L)
- 1091-6490
- OpenAlex
- W1968472235
- Cited by
- 253
- References
- 26
- FWCI
- 8.01
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- green
About these checks
Registry, retraction, Cites and statistics results are computed, not judged, with one exception: a printed reference that no index lists is read once by a model before it counts as a citation error. Claims are extracted by a model and kept only when their quote appears verbatim in the text; each cited source is then checked, with a model’s help, for whether it says what the claim relies on. Those verdicts can be wrong — read the claim’s quote and the cited source before relying on one.
Statistics and arithmetic are recomputed, not judged.
Confidence bands are shown only for fields calibrated on our annotated test set. None is calibrated yet, so no band is shown.
What counts as a claim ›How we measure confidence ›How we check this ›
Are you an author, or do you see a problem with this page? Request a review
How to cite
Cite CoChat for the checks on this page, and the paper for its own findings.
- This page
- CoChat. (2026). Citation check: Nuthatches eavesdrop on variations in heterospecific chickadee mobbing alarm calls. https://app.cochat.ai/papers/10.1073/pnas.0605183104
- The paper
- Templeton, C. N., & Greene, E. (2007). Nuthatches eavesdrop on variations in heterospecific chickadee mobbing alarm calls. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.0605183104
Data sources
Bibliographic data: Semantic Scholar, OpenAlex, Crossref.
Contains information from the Semantic Scholar Academic Graph Datasets, made available under the ODC Attribution License (ODC-BY 1.0).
Semantic Scholar’s data is described in: Kinney, R., et al. (2023). The Semantic Scholar Open Data Platform. arXiv:2301.10140.
