Threat-related acoustical differences in alarm calls by wild bonnet macaques (Macaca radiata) elicited by python and leopard models

Ethology

Volumn 113, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 352-367

  Coss, Richard G ^a   McCowan, Brenda ^b   Ramakrishnan, Uma ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c JUNIATA COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALARM SIGNAL; ANTIPREDATOR DEFENSE; BIOACOUSTICS; CARNIVORE; FELID; INDUCED RESPONSE; NOISE; PREDATION RISK; PREDATOR-PREY INTERACTION; PRIMATE; SNAKE;

ASIA; BANGALORE; EURASIA; INDIA; KARNATAKA; SOUTH ASIA;

FELIDAE; MACACA; MACACA RADIATA; PANTHERA; PANTHERA PARDUS; PYTHON MOLURUS; PYTHONIDAE;

EID: 33947697194     PISSN: 01791613     EISSN: 14390310     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1439-0310.2007.01336.x     Document Type: Article

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