Quantifying acoustic and temporal characteristics of vocalizations for a group of captive african elephants loxodonta africana

Bioacoustics

Volumn 13, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 213-231

  Leong, K M ^a,b   Ortolani, A ^a,c   Burks, K D ^a,d   Mellen, J D ^a   Savage, A ^a  

^a DISNEY S ANIMAL KINGDOM   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

African elephant; Infrasound; Vocal repertoire; Vocal strategies

Indexed keywords

BIOACOUSTICS; CAPTIVE POPULATION; ELEPHANT; VOCALIZATION;

ELEPHANT; ELEPHANTIDAE; LOXODONTA; LOXODONTA AFRICANA;

EID: 0037625238     PISSN: 09524622     EISSN: 21650586     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/09524622.2003.9753499     Document Type: Article

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