Plasticity of alarm-call response development in Belding's ground squirrels (Spermophilus beldingi, Sciuridae)

Ethology

Volumn 105, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 193-206

  Mateo, Jill M ^a,b   Holmes, Warren G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^b Department of Obstetrics Gynecology   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALARM SIGNAL; BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY; MAMMAL;

SPERMOPHILUS BELDINGI;

EID: 0032925760     PISSN: 01791613     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1439-0310.1999.00389.x     Document Type: Article

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