Acoustic communication underground: Vocalization characteristics in subterranean social mole-rats (Cryptomys sp., Bathyergidae)

Journal of Comparative Physiology - A Sensory, Neural, and Behavioral Physiology

Volumn 180, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 245-255

  Credner, S ^a   Burda, H ^b   Ludescher, F ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL FRANKFURT   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF DUISBURG ESSEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Acoustic communication; Evolution; Hearing; Mole rat; Subterranean mammal; Vocalization

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTICS; AGGRESSION; AGING; ANIMAL; ANIMAL COMMUNICATION; ARTICLE; BODY WEIGHT; DRUG EFFECT; FEMALE; HEARING; MALE; PHYSIOLOGY; RODENT; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; VOCALIZATION;

ACOUSTICS; AGGRESSION; AGING; ANIMAL COMMUNICATION; ANIMALS; BODY WEIGHT; FEMALE; HEARING; MALE; RODENTIA; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; VOCALIZATION, ANIMAL;

EID: 0031106861     PISSN: 03407594     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s003590050045     Document Type: Article

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