Acoustic structures in the alarm calls of Gunnison's prairie dogs

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 119, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 3153-3160

  Slobodchikoff, C N ^a   Placer, J ^a  

^a NORTHERN ARIZONA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALARM SYSTEMS; COMMUNICATION; COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS; SIGNAL ENCODING; SPEECH SYNTHESIS;

ACOUSTIC STRUCTURES; ALARM CALLS; GUNNISON'S PRAIRIE DOGS; RED-TAILED HAWKS;

ACOUSTICS;

ACOUSTICS; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; COYOTE; DOG; GUNNISON PRAIRIE DOG; HAWK; INFORMATION PROCESSING; NONHUMAN; PREDATOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SQUIRREL; STRESS;

ANIMALS; AUDITORY PERCEPTION; COYOTES; DOGS; FOURIER ANALYSIS; HAWKS; SCIURIDAE; SOFTWARE; SOUND; SOUND SPECTROGRAPHY; VOCALIZATION, ANIMAL;

EID: 33646466177     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.2185489     Document Type: Article

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