@article {57565,
	title = {Eavesdropping on a heterospecific alarm call in the giant root-rat (Tachyorytes macrocephalus), an important prey of the Ethiopian wolf (Canis simensis)},
	year = {2019},
	abstract = {<p>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\&rsquo; burrows. This result is understandable given the two rodents have the same principal predator, the Ethiopian wolf.</p>
},
	keywords = {Afroalpine, Alarm, Anti-predator, eavesdropping, Mutualism, Wing whistle},
	doi = {10.1007/s10164-019-00618-1},
	url = {http://link.springer.com/10.1007/s10164-019-00618-1},
	author = {Hrouzkov{\'a}, Ema and Bernasov{\'a}, Eli{\v s}ka and {\v S}kl{\'\i}ba, Jan}
}
