What are conventional signals?
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Two separate but major distinctions are used to classify conventional signals which are important for the knowledge of signal design. Signals are strategic correlates of quality and its design is arbitrarily related to their message. The two important distinctions used to characterize conventional signals are whether or not signals permit strategic choice and whether signalling costs are inherent to the production of the signal.
Publication Name: Animal Behaviour
Subject: Zoology and wildlife conservation
ISSN: 0003-3472
Year: 1995
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Learning to avoid aposematic prey
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Asosematic (warningly coloured) prey is relatively unpalatable and their conspicuous appearance should enable them to avoid them, but this is not always the case. The number of asosematic prey that the predator attacks as it learns to avoid such prey should be constant or declining as the prey's abundance increases.
Publication Name: Animal Behaviour
Subject: Zoology and wildlife conservation
ISSN: 0003-3472
Year: 2005
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Contrast versus color in aposematic signals
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The relative importance of signal contrast and the colours of signals for predator attention during discrimination are studied. Results suggested that birds primarily attend to the colors of signals and disregard contrast in discrimination tasks.
Publication Name: Animal Behaviour
Subject: Zoology and wildlife conservation
ISSN: 0003-3472
Year: 2003
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