Call repertoire of infant African elephants: First insights into the early vocal ontogeny

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 121, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 3922-3931

  Stoeger Horwath, Angela S ^a   Stoeger, Simon ^a   Schwammer, Harald M ^a   Kratochvil, Helmut ^b  

^a Vienna Zoo   (Austria)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC NOISE; MAMMALS; SPEECH RECOGNITION;

ACOUSTIC COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; ELEPHANTS; LOXODONTA AFRICANA; VOCAL ONTOGENY;

SPEECH PROCESSING;

ACOUSTICS; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; AUSTRIA; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELEPHANT; FEMALE; GROUPS BY AGE; MALE; NONHUMAN; ONTOGENY; ORPHANAGE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TERRESTRIAL SPECIES; VOCAL CORD;

AGING; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; ANIMALS, ZOO; ELEPHANTS; FEMALE; MALE; SOFTWARE; VOCALIZATION, ANIMAL;

EID: 34249868456     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.2722216     Document Type: Article

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