A test of the acoustic adaptation hypothesis in four species of marmots

Animal Behaviour

Volumn 56, Issue 6, 1998, Pages 1517-1528

  Daniel, Janice C ^a,b   Blumstein, Daniel T ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS   (United States)

^b MACQUARIE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTICS; ADAPTATION; ALARM SIGNAL; RODENT;

MARMOTA CALIGATA; MARMOTA FLAVIVENTRIS; MARMOTA MONAX; MARMOTA OLYMPUS;

EID: 0032438814     PISSN: 00033472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/anbe.1998.0929     Document Type: Article

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