Eavesdropping grey squirrels infer safety from bird chatter

Marie V. Lilly; Emma C. Lucore; Keith A. Tarvin

doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0221279

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Eavesdropping grey squirrels infer safety from bird chatter

Marie V. Lilly,

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Biology, Oberlin College, Oberlin, Ohio, United States of America
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Emma C. Lucore,

Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Biology, Oberlin College, Oberlin, Ohio, United States of America
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Keith A. Tarvin

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

* E-mail: keith.tarvin@oberlin.edu

Affiliation Department of Biology, Oberlin College, Oberlin, Ohio, United States of America

http://orcid.org/0000-0002-4712-8170

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Eavesdropping grey squirrels infer safety from bird chatter

Marie V. Lilly,
Emma C. Lucore,
Keith A. Tarvin

Published: September 4, 2019
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0221279

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Squirrels assist with alarms in my yard

Posted by BirdLover on 06 Sep 2019 at 21:04 GMT

I'm always on the alert for alarms in my yard as it usually means a cat is out there. The catbirds and squirrels both sound the "Cat is here" alarm. I will come out and chase the cat away. I hate neighbors' cats in my yard but welcome the birds, squirrels and rabbits even though the rabbits and squirrels sometimes interfere with my gardening. I will always chase cats away when warned by my yard friends.

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