Potential for individual recognition in acoustic signals: A comparative study of two gulls with different nesting patterns

Comptes Rendus - Biologies

Volumn 326, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 329-337

  Mathevon, Nicolas ^a,b   Charrier, Isabelle ^c   Jouventin, Pierre ^d  

^a CNRS   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ JEAN MONNET   (France)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^d CENTRE D ECOLOGIE FONCTIONNELLE ET EVOLUTIVE   (France)

Author keywords

Acoustic communication; Colonial birds; Gulls; Individual recognition; Two voice

Indexed keywords

BIOACOUSTICS; KIN RECOGNITION; SEABIRD; VOCALIZATION;

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL IDENTIFICATION; ARTICLE; AUDITORY DISCRIMINATION; BIRD; CHICKEN; CODING; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; ECOLOGY; EXPERIMENTATION; HATCHING; INDIVIDUALITY; NESTING; NONHUMAN; PROGENY; RECOGNITION; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SPECIES DIFFERENCE;

AVES; LARUS GENEI; LARUS RIDIBUNDUS;

EID: 0038446660     PISSN: 16310691     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1631-0691(03)00072-6     Document Type: Article

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