Antipredator responses to a previously neutral sound by free-living adult golden-mantled ground squirrels, Spermophilus lateralis (Sciuridae)

Ethology

Volumn 105, Issue 9, 1999, Pages 747-757

  Shriner, Walter McKee ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b DENISON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIPREDATOR DEFENSE; AUDITORY CUE; LEARNING;

SPERMOPHILUS LATERALIS;

EID: 0032882768     PISSN: 01791613     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1439-0310.1999.00454.x     Document Type: Article

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