Suricate alarm calls signal predator class and urgency

Trends in Cognitive Sciences

Volumn 6, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 55-57

  Manser, Marta B ^a,b   Seyfarth, Robert M ^a   Cheney, Dorothy L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALARM SYSTEMS; SENSORY PERCEPTION; SIGNAL ENCODING; SPEECH;

ALARM CALLS;

COGNITIVE SYSTEMS;

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL COMMUNICATION; ARTICLE; AUDITORY STIMULATION; CARNIVORA; MOTIVATION; NONHUMAN; PERCEPTION; PREDATION; PREDATOR; STIMULUS RESPONSE; VOCALIZATION;

EID: 0036468226     PISSN: 13646613     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1364-6613(00)01840-4     Document Type: Review

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