Ecobogan wrote:This could well be coincidence but has anyone experienced animals of different species heeding each others warning calls?
I've got a good population of white wing choughs at my place that are real inquisitive busy bodies of birds and will follow you in the trees in small groups. They have a distinctive barky cough type of warning call and do this as they're checking me out when I'm hunting.
We've all heard the double thump warning sign that roos and wallabies make as they take off when lurky danger is spotted.
The reason I ask is there are suspiciously NO rabbits in the lower green gullies at my place when the choughs or roos give out.
I'm not talking about a herd of roos belting through where the rabbits would be feeding which would scatter anything. They're a fair ways off but still audible.
It's been noted that monkeys and certain apes have cottoned on to bird calls as have birds to other birds apparently.
But rabbits? Not known for their contribution to nano technology or high end art it's probably just brainless coincidence.
Blr243 wrote:Blade , if u don’t like wagtails allow me to tell u a tale. My mate once was watching a polar bear gently strolling across his pen floor in a zoo....a wagtail was skipping and jumping and flying along with him annoying the bear knowing that he was too fast for the bear and was therefore safe. Or so he thought ...for just a fraction of a second the bird was on the floor in front of the bear and like a bolt of lightning the bear lifted its paw and bought it back down On top of the bird with enough force to nearly crack the floor ... then the bear swivelled his paw around while bringing it up towards his mouth and in one motion using his tongue licked the flattened bird from the inside of his paw and then carried on walking across his pen as if it never happened .... one less wagtail to bother you while out hunting
bigpete wrote:Sulphur crests are way worse imo
Ecobogan wrote:So it looks like my 'as if they'd communicate' kinda naive question has turned into 'of course they communicate!' kinda naive question.
Very interesting stuff lads and there wasn't a whole massive amount I could find out on line.
Native species makes a lot more sense but would rabbits evolve an innate sense in 200 years ?. Could prob come up with more naive questions if anyone's wondering
Oldbloke wrote:I think the Galahs are just say "warning, there is an intruder in our territory and he is hear".
Not, here comes a preditor.
Another thing many animals understand (instinctuve) is that animals with eyes at the front are hunters and not prey.
bigpete wrote:Oldbloke wrote:I think the Galahs are just say "warning, there is an intruder in our territory and he is hear".
Not, here comes a preditor.
Another thing many animals understand (instinctuve) is that animals with eyes at the front are hunters and not prey.
Howard Hill wrote about how,if you stare at an animal while stalking,particularly at it's eyes,it'll spook. I've tested this when bow hunting enough times to believe it's true up to a point,enough that I'll tend to keep the animal I'm stalking in peripheral vision
NTSOG wrote:What about plover? They shriek loudly at any intruders and may buzz your head? I have always assumed that a plover shrieking nearby at night [when I'm sitting in cover quiet and still] means a fox or cat around.
Jim
Oldbloke wrote:I think the Galahs are just say "warning, there is an intruder in our territory and he is hear".
Not, here comes a preditor.
Another thing many animals understand (instinctuve) is that animals with eyes at the front are hunters and not prey.