Yellow-bellied marmot and golden-mantled ground squirrel responses to heterospecific alarm calls

Animal Behaviour

Volumn 55, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 529-536

  Shriner, Walter McKee ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b DENISON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALARM CALL; CALL RECOGNITIION; GOLDEN-MANTLED GROUND SQUIRREL; VOCALIZATION; YELLOW-BELLIED MARMOT;

MARMOTA FLAVIVENTRIS; SPERMOPHILUS LATERALIS;

EID: 0031900014     PISSN: 00033472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/anbe.1997.0623     Document Type: Article

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