Curlews eavesdrop on prairie dog alarm calls to avoid danger. Prairie dogs = "keystone information producers" 💚
This thread explains the study outcomes, and the photo of the "badgerinator" used as a predator proxy is just the icing on the cake.
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Paper:
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...We decided an experimental approach to this question could be cool. So Andrew strapped a taxidermied badger on top of an RC cart and drove the cart toward incubating curlews both while playing prairie dog ground-based predator calls and not (control).
We lovingly call this the badgerinator.
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