Abstract
If we study the ability of birds to recognize predators, we must first make clear how accurate recognition we are interested in. It is the same as if we were to survey children’s ability to recognize vehicles. They can recognize vehicles intrinsically: passenger cars vs. lorries, passenger Volkswagen vs. Mercedes cars and even Volkswagen Passat vs. Volkswagen Golf. We should try to specify a similar level of accuracy even when dealing with predator recognition. However, as already mentioned in Chap. 1, we cannot, naturally, ask whether birds recognize, e.g. Volkswagen and Mercedes cars, but only if they distinguish them.
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Fuchs, R., Veselý, P., Nácarová, J. (2019). Evidence for Abilities of Predator Recognition. In: Predator Recognition in Birds. SpringerBriefs in Animal Sciences. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-12404-5_2
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