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Table 3 Averaged LMMs investigating the effects of sex and age-class onto the three Principal Components (PC1-PC3), with coefficients, estimated means (EM), standard error (SE), z values, significances (p), and lower and upper confidence intervals (CI)

From: Raven food calls indicate sender’s age and sex

Coefficients

EM

SE

z value

p

2.5% CI

97.5% CI

PC1

 (Intercept)

− 0.18

0.29

0.62

0.537

− 0.74

0.39

 Sexa (female vs. male)

0.24

0.63

0.38

0.701

− 0.99

1.48

PC2

 (Intercept)

0.51

0.34

1.48

0.1380

− 0.16

1.19

 Sexa (female vs. male)

− 0.43

0.71

0.61

0.5424

−1.81

0.95

 Age-classb (juvenile vs. subadult)

− 0.06

0.12

0.50

0.6195

− 0.29

0.17

 Age-classb (juvenile vs. adult)

− 0.43

0.14

2.96

0.0031

− 0.71

− 0.14

 Age-classc (subadult vs. adult)

− 0.37

0.08

4.37

< 0.0001

− 0.53

− 0.20

PC3

 (Intercept)

1.40

0.34

4.11

0.0000

0.73

2.07

 Sexa (female vs. male)

0.62

0.60

1.03

0.3021

− 0.55

1.78

 Age-classb (juvenile vs. subadult)

− 0.76

0.20

3.80

0.0001

−1.15

− 0.37

 Age-classb (juvenile vs. adult)

−1.63

0.24

6.77

< 0.0001

−2.10

−1.16

 Age-classc (subadult vs. adult)

− 0.87

0.14

6.16

< 0.0001

−1.15

− 0.60

  1. Set as reference point: afemale, bjuvenile, csubadult