Distress calls must trade off warning others against betraying the caller’s own location

Evidence

Among the communication strategies adopted by species the distress call represent a way to inform conspecifics and heterospecifics on the presence of a potential predator. To be efficient these calls must warn other species about the menace and at the same time to not inform predators about the location of the emitter. — Almo Farina, Soundscape Ecology, 802

Categorization

  • XREF: connects to: Ethical response to another demands risking that no signal is actually sent — Donna Landry and Gerald MacLean, The Spivak Reader: Selected Works of…, 2257

Broader Connections