Response of foraging group members to sentinel calls in suricates, Suricata suricatta

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 266, Issue 1423, 1999, Pages 1013-1019

  Manser, Martha B ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Cooperative breeding; Sentinel calls; Sentinels; Suricates; Vigilance

Indexed keywords

ALARM SIGNAL; BEHAVIORAL RESPONSE; FORAGING BEHAVIOR; VIGILANCE; VOCALIZATION;

ALERTNESS; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CARNIVORA; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VOCALIZATION;

ANIMALIA; CARNIVORA; SURICATA SURICATTA;

EID: 0033594707     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.1999.0737     Document Type: Article

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