Birds 'cry hawk' to give offspring chance to escape predators

Wednesday, June 3, 2015 - 02:20 in Biology & Nature

New research has found that the 6 gram brown thornbill mimics the hawk alarm calls of neighbouring species to scare a nest predator by convincing it that a much bigger and scarier predator - the brown goshawk - is on its way.

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