Habitat structure and alarm call dialects in Gunnison's prairie dog (Cynomys gunnisoni)

Behavioral Ecology

Volumn 13, Issue 6, 2002, Pages 844-850

  Perla, Bianca S ^a   Slobodchikoff, Con N ^b  

^a Grand Canyon Wildlands Council   (United States)

^b NORTHERN ARIZONA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Alarm calls; C. gunnisoni; Communication; Dialects; Habitat structure; Prairie dogs

Indexed keywords

ALARM SIGNAL; BIOACOUSTICS; HABITAT STRUCTURE; INTERPOPULATION VARIATION; RODENT;

CANIS FAMILIARIS; CYNOMYS; CYNOMYS GUNNISONI; RODENTIA;

EID: 0036865014     PISSN: 10452249     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/beheco/13.6.844     Document Type: Article

References (44)

1. Baker C, 1975. Song dialects and genetic differences in white-crowned sparrows (Zonotrichia leucophyrus). Evolution 29:226-241.
2. Brown CH, Gomez R, Wasser PM, 1995. Old world monkey vocalizations: Adaptation to the local habitat? Anim Behav 50:945-961.
3. Brown T, Handford P, 1996. Acoustic signal amplitude patterns: A computer simulation investigation of the acoustic adaptation hypothesis. Condor 98:608-623.
4. Date E, Lemon R, 1993. Sound transmission: A basis for dialects in bird song? Behaviour 124:291-312.
5. Gorman RC, 1981. Nudes and Foodes: Gorman Goes Gourmet. Flagstaff, Arizona: Northland Press.
6. Hall E, Kelson K, 1959. The Mammals of North America, vol 1. New York: Ronald Press.
7. Handford P, Lougheed S, 1991. Variation in duration and frequency characters in the song of the rufous-collared sparrow, Zonotrichia capensis with respect to habitat, trill dialects and body size. Condor 93:644-658.
8. Hansen P, 1979. Vocal learning: Its role in adapting sound structures to long-distance propagation and a hypothesis on its evolution. Anim Behav 27:1270-1271.
9. Hoogland J, 1995. The Black-Tailed Prairie Dog: Social Life of a Burrowing Mammal. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
10. Hoogland J, 1996. Why do Gunnison's prairie dogs give anti-predator calls? Anim Behav 51:871-880.
11. Hurlbert SH, 1984. Pseudoreplication and the design of ecological field experiments. Ecol Monogr 54:187-211.
12. Kroodsma DE, 1989. Suggested experimental designs for song playbacks. Anim Behav 37:600-609.
13. LeBouf B, Peterson R, 1969. Dialects in elephant seals. Science 166:1654-1656.
14. Linskens H, Martens M, Hendricksen H, Roestenberg-Sinniage A, Brouwers W, vanderStaak A, Strick-Jansen A, 1976. The acoustic climate of plant communities. Oecologia 23:165-177.
15. Marler P, 1955. Characteristics of some animal calls. Nature 176:6-8.
16. Marler P, Tamura M, 1962. Song dialects in three populations of white-crowned sparrows. Condor 64:368-377.
17. Marten K, Marler P, 1977. Sound transmission and its significance for animal vocalization I. Temperate habitats. Behav Ecol Sociobiol 2:271-290.
18. Marten K, Quine D, Marler P, 1977. Sound transmission and its significance for animal vocalization II. Tropical forest habitats. Behav Ecol Sociobiol 2:291-302.
19. McNulty F, 1971. Must they Die? Garden City, New York: Doubleday.
20. Morton E, 1975. Ecological sources of selection on avian sounds. Am Nat 108:17-34.
21. Morton E, 1986. Predictions from the ranging hypothesis for the evolution of long distance signals in birds. Behaviour 99:65-86.
22. Placer J, Slobodchikoff CN, 2000. A fuzzy-neural system for identification of species-specific alarm calls of Gunnison's prairie dogs. Behav Process 52:1-9.
23. Placer J, Slobodchikoff CN, 2001. Developing new metrics for the investigation of animal vocalizations. Intelligent Automat Soft Computing 7:1-11.
24. Rayor LS, 1985. Effects of habitat quality on growth, age of first reproduction, and dispersal in Gunnison's prairie dogs (Cynomys gunnisoni). Can J Zool 63:2835-2840.
25. Richards D, Wiley R, 1980. Reverberations and amplitude fluctuations in the propagation of sound in a forest: Implications for animal communication. Am Nat 115:381-399.
26. Robinson A, 1989. Dispersal of the Gunnison's Prairie Dog (Cynomys gunnisoni) (Masters thesis). Flagstaff: Northern Arizona University.
27. Rothstein S, Fleischer R, 1987. Vocal dialects and their possible relation to honest status signaling in the brown-headed cowbird. Condor 89:1-23.
28. Ryan M, Brenowitz E, 1985. The role of body size, phylogeny and ambient noise in the evolution of bird song. Am Nat 126:87-100.
29. Searcy WA, 1989. Pseudoreplication, external validity and the design of playback experiments. Anim Behav 38:717-720.
30. Shy E, 1983. The relation of geographical variation in song to habitat characteristics and body size in North American tanagers (Thraupine: Piranga). Behav Ecol Sociobiol 12:71-76.
31. Slobodchikoff CN, Ackers S, Van Ert M, 1998. Geographic variation in the alarm calls of Gunnison's prairie dogs. J Mammal 79:1265-1272.
32. Slobodchikoff CN, Coast R, 1980. Dialects in the alarm calls of prairie dogs. Behav Ecol Sociobiol 7:49-53.
33. Slobodchikoff CN, Kiriazis J, Fisher C, Creef E, 1991. Semantic information distinguishing individual predators in the alarm calls of Gunnison's prairie dogs. Anim Behav 42:713-719.
34. Slobodchikoff CN, Robinson A, Schaack C, 1988. Habitat use by Gunnison's prairie dogs. In: Habitat Use and Management of Small Mammals and Amphibians. Washington, DC: US Forest Service.
35. Sokal R, Rohlf J, 1995. Biometry, 3rd Ed. Oxford: W.H. Freeman.
36. Somers P, 1973. Dialects in southern Rocky Mountain pikas, Ochotona princeps. Anim Behav 21:124-137.
37. Travis S, Slobodchikoff CN, 1993. Effects of food resources on the social system of Gunnison's prairie dogs. Can J Zool 71:1186-1192.
38. Travis S, Slobodchikoff CN, Keim P, 1997. DNA fingerprinting reveals low genetic diversity in Gunnison's prairie dog (Cynomys gunnisoni). J Mammal 78:725-732.
39. Tubaro P, Segura E, 1995. Geographic, ecological and subspecific variation in the song of the rufous-browed peppershrike (Cyclarhis gujanensis). Condor 97:792-803.
40. Waring GH, 1950. Sound communication of black-tailed, white-tailed, and Gunnison's prairie dogs. Am Midl Nat 83:167-185.
41. Wass J, 1988. Song pitch-habitat relationships in white-throated sparrows: Cracks in acoustic windows? Can J Zool 66:2578-2581.
42. Wasserman F, 1979. The relationship between habitat and song in the white-throated sparrow. Condor 81:424-426.
43. Wiley R, 1991. Associations of song properties with habitats for territorial oscine birds of eastern North America. Am Nat 138:973-993.
44. Wiley R, Richards D, 1978. Physical constraints on acoustic communication in the atmosphere: Implications for the evolution of animal vocalizations. Behav Ecol Sociobiol 3:69-94.