All these behaviors offer fertile ground for studying how animals trade off acoustic communication with the risk of eavesdropping.
In addition, numerous changes of the position of the signaling male may reduce predation risk from eavesdropping predators like spiders [47].
If signals are costly to produce, or if they incur the risk of eavesdropping by rivals or predators [2] selection should favor tactical signaling.
"Every lawyer has to evaluate the risk of snooping, of eavesdropping, before communicating with a client or others about a client's matter, like witnesses or relatives.
2) High predation, small body size, and dispersed social systems may select for acoustic paternal kin recognition in the high frequency/ultrasonic ranges, thus limiting risks of inbreeding and eavesdropping by predators or conspecific competitors.
A limited detectability of predator-related acoustic cues may place singing males at high risk of becoming prey to eavesdropping bats.
If you admit out loud to a bunch of people — including Haake, who was on the sidewalk enterprisingly eavesdropping — that you're just pretending to be offended, you risk looking phony, like your husband.
Therefore, don't worry about the neighborhood teen hijacking your car, but eavesdropping on webcams and microphones embedded in networked devices could be a risk.
When users think about the security risks of telephone calls they tend to think of eavesdropping.
The rationale behind our prediction was that males of taxa with high overall sexual activity face a higher risk of by-standers making use of socially acquired information when eavesdropping on sexual interactions.
