Ground squirrels use an infrared signal to deter rattlesnake predation

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 104, Issue 36, 2007, Pages 14372-14376

  Rundus, Aaron S ^a   Owings, Donald H ^a   Joshi, Sanjay S ^b   Chinn, Erin ^b   Giannini, Nicolas ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b University of California   (United States)

Author keywords

Animal communication; Multimodal communication; Signal evolution

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; COMMUNICATION SKILL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEFENSIVE BEHAVIOR; EVOLUTION; HEAT; INFRARED RADIATION; NONHUMAN; PREDATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSORY SYSTEM; SNAKE; SQUIRREL; TAIL; VIDEORECORDING; ANIMAL; ANIMAL MODEL; PHYSIOLOGY; SCIURIDAE; TEMPERATURE;

ANIMALIA; CROTALUS; CROTALUS OREGANUS; PITUOPHIS; PITUOPHIS MELANOLEUCUS; SCIURIDAE; SPERMOPHILUS; SPERMOPHILUS BEECHEYI;

ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; CROTALUS; MODELS, ANIMAL; SCIURIDAE; TEMPERATURE;

EID: 35448957297     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0702599104     Document Type: Article

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