{"data":[{"source":"bio.acousti.ca","id":"57565","type":"article","title":"Eavesdropping on a heterospecific alarm call in the giant root-rat (Tachyorytes macrocephalus), an important prey of the Ethiopian wolf (Canis simensis)","author":"Hrouzkov\u00e1, Ema; Bernasov\u00e1, Eli\u0161ka; \u0160kl\u00edba, Jan","editor":null,"year":"2019","month":null,"journal":null,"booktitle":null,"series":null,"howpublished":null,"volume":null,"number":null,"pages":null,"chapter":null,"edition":null,"publisher":null,"organization":null,"institution":null,"school":null,"address":null,"type_of_work":null,"note":null,"isbn":null,"issn":null,"doi":"10.1007\/s10164-019-00618-1","url":"http:\/\/link.springer.com\/10.1007\/s10164-019-00618-1","attachments":"https:\/\/bio.acousti.ca\/sites\/default\/files\/10.1007%40s10164-019-00618-1.pdf","keywords":"Afroalpine; Alarm; Anti-predator; eavesdropping; Mutualism; Wing whistle","abstract":"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\u2019 burrows. This result is understandable given the two rodents have the same principal predator, the Ethiopian wolf.","type_name":"Journal Article","journal_abbreviation":null,"pmid":null,"info_url":"https:\/\/bio.acousti.ca\/node\/57565"}]}