Do acoustic features of lion, Panthera leo, roars reflect sex and male condition?

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 121, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 3947-3953

  Pfefferle, Dana ^a   West, Peyton M ^b   Grinnell, Jon ^c   Packer, Craig ^d   Fischer, Julia ^a  

^a GERMAN PRIMATE CENTER   (Germany)

^b AAAS   (United States)

^c GUSTAVUS ADOLPHUS COLLEGE   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MAMMALS; NATURAL FREQUENCIES; SPEECH ANALYSIS; SPEECH RECOGNITION;

ACOUSTIC PARAMETERS; FUNDAMENTAL FREQUENCY; LION; SEX;

ACOUSTIC SIGNAL PROCESSING;

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL COMMUNICATION; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BODY CONSTITUTION; BODY SIZE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FIGHTING; LION; MALE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEX DIFFERENCE; SEXUAL SELECTION; TERRITORIALITY; VOICE;

ACOUSTICS; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, WILD; BODY SIZE; FEMALE; HEARING; LIONS; MALE; SEX CHARACTERISTICS; SOUND; TANZANIA; VOCALIZATION, ANIMAL;

EID: 34249886020     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.2722507     Document Type: Article

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