Perceptual specificity in the alarm calls of Gunnison's prairie dogs

Behavioural Processes

Volumn 73, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 29-35

  Kiriazis, Judith ^a   Slobodchikoff, C N ^a  

^a NORTHERN ARIZONA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Alarm calls; Ground squirrel; Perceptual specificity; Prairie dogs; Referential communication

Indexed keywords

ALARM SIGNAL; BEHAVIORAL RESPONSE; MAMMAL; PREDATOR; RODENT;

ALERTNESS; ANIMAL COMMUNICATION; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; AUDITORY DISCRIMINATION; BODY POSTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; COYOTE; DOMESTIC ANIMAL; ESCAPE BEHAVIOR; HAWK; NONHUMAN; PREDATOR AVOIDANCE; PREDATOR PREY INTERACTION; SQUIRREL; VOCALIZATION;

ANIMALS; AUDITORY PERCEPTION; ESCAPE REACTION; HUMANS; PREDATORY BEHAVIOR; SCIURIDAE; VOCALIZATION, ANIMAL;

ACCIPITRINAE; BUTEO JAMAICENSIS; CANIDAE; CANIS FAMILIARIS; CANIS LATRANS; CYNOMYS;

EID: 33646462865     PISSN: 03766357     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.beproc.2006.01.015     Document Type: Article

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