A fuzzy-neural system for identification of species-specific alarm calls of Gunnison's prairie dogs

Behavioural Processes

Volumn 52, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 1-9

  Placer, J ^a   Slobodchikoff, C N ^a  

^a NORTHERN ARIZONA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Acoustic; Alarm calls; Fuzzy logic; Neural nets; Prairie dogs

Indexed keywords

ALARM SIGNAL; ANALYTICAL METHOD; IDENTIFICATION METHOD; PREDATOR;

ACCURACY; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORK; AUDIOMETRY; CLASSIFICATION; DOG; FREQUENCY ANALYSIS; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MODEL; NONHUMAN; PREDATOR; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; STRESS; TAPE RECORDER; TECHNIQUE; VOICE; WILDLIFE;

EID: 0034718973     PISSN: 03766357     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0376-6357(00)00105-4     Document Type: Article

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