The acoustic structure of suricates' alarm calls varies with predator type and the level of response urgency

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 268, Issue 1483, 2001, Pages 2315-2324

  Manser, M B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Alarm calls; Functionally referential; Level of response urgency; Social mammals; Suricates

Indexed keywords

ALARM SIGNAL; ANTIPREDATOR DEFENSE; BIOACOUSTICS;

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ARTICLE; AUDITORY STIMULATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISTANCE PERCEPTION; MAMMAL; NONHUMAN; PREDATOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPECIES DIFFERENTIATION; STRESS;

ANIMALIA; MAMMALIA; SURICATA SURICATTA;

EID: 0035935719     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2001.1773     Document Type: Article

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