Does sociality drive the evolution of communicative complexity? A comparative test with ground-dwelling sciurid alarm calls

American Naturalist

Volumn 150, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 179-200

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

^a UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALARM CALL; COMMUNICATION; GROUND SQUIRREL; MARMOT; PRAIRIE DOG; SOCIALITY;

CANIS FAMILIARIS; CYNOMYS; MARMOTA; RODENTIA; SCIURIDAE; SPERMOPHILUS;

EID: 0030874156     PISSN: 00030147     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/286062     Document Type: Article

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