The information that receivers extract from alarm calls in suricates

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 268, Issue 1484, 2001, Pages 2485-2491

  Manser, M B ^a   Bell, M B ^a   Fletcher, L B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Alarm calls; Functionally referential; Level of response urgency; Receivers; Suricates

Indexed keywords

ALARM SIGNAL; ANTIPREDATOR DEFENSE; BIOACOUSTICS; VOCALIZATION;

ACOUSTICS; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ARTICLE; FLIGHT; NONHUMAN; PREDATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOUND; VOCALIZATION;

SURICATA SURICATTA;

EID: 0035824448     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2001.1772     Document Type: Article

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