The irrelevance of individual discrimination in meerkat alarm calls

Animal Behaviour

Volumn 74, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 1259-1268

  Schibler, Fabian ^a   Manser, Marta B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

acoustic structure; alarm call; habituation dishabituation playback; individual discrimination; meerkat; reliability; Suricata suricatta

Indexed keywords

ALARM SIGNAL; ANTIPREDATOR DEFENSE; BEHAVIORAL RESPONSE; CALLING BEHAVIOR; MAMMAL; PREDATION RISK; RELIABILITY ANALYSIS; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; VOCALIZATION;

CARNIVORA; MARMOTA; PRIMATES; SCIURIDAE; SPERMOPHILUS; SURICATA SURICATTA;

EID: 35748959005     PISSN: 00033472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.anbehav.2007.02.026     Document Type: Article

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