Alarm calling in yellow-bellied marmots: I. The meaning of situationally variable alarm calls

Animal Behaviour

Volumn 53, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 143-171

  Blumstein, Daniel T ^a   Armitage, Kenneth B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALARM CALL; VOCALIZATION; YELLOW-BELLIED MARMOT;

USA, COLORADO; USA, UTAH;

MARMOTA FLAVIVENTRIS;

EID: 0030620676     PISSN: 00033472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/anbe.1996.0285     Document Type: Article

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