Variability in the alarm call of golden-mantled ground squirrels (spermophilus lateralis and S. saturatus)

Journal of Mammalogy

Volumn 85, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 43-50

  Eiler, Karen Christine ^a   Banack, Sandra Anne ^a  

^a CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Alarm call; Character displacement; Dialect; Geographic variation; Sciuridae; Sonogram; Spermophilus; Ultrasonic vocalizations

Indexed keywords

ALARM SIGNAL; CALLING BEHAVIOR; CHARACTER DISPLACEMENT; GEOGRAPHICAL VARIATION; RODENT; VOCALIZATION;

ANIMALIA; CANIS; CANIS FAMILIARIS; CANIS LUPUS; RODENTIA; SCIURIDAE; SPERMOPHILUS; SPERMOPHILUS LATERALIS; SPERMOPHILUS SATURATUS;

EID: 1542318870     PISSN: 00222372     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1644/1545-1542(2004)085<0043:VITACO>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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