Why do male Columbian ground squirrels give a mating call?

Animal Behaviour

Volumn 74, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 1319-1327

  Manno, Theodore G ^a   Nesterova, Anna P ^b   DeBarbieri, Liliana M ^c   Kennedy, Stuart E ^d   Wright, Kelsey S ^a   Dobson, F Stephen ^a  

^a AUBURN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^c PRESCOTT COLLEGE   (United States)

^d WSHU Public Radio Group   (United States)

Author keywords

alarm call; Columbian ground squirrel; communication; competition; context; mate guarding; mating call; postcopulatory; Spermophilus columbianus; vocalization

Indexed keywords

ALARM SIGNAL; BREEDING SEASON; CALLING BEHAVIOR; COMPETITION (ECOLOGY); COPULATION; MATE GUARDING; MATING BEHAVIOR; RODENT; VOCALIZATION;

SCIURIDAE; SPERMOPHILUS COLUMBIANUS;

EID: 35748959631     PISSN: 00033472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.anbehav.2007.02.033     Document Type: Article

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